Hi there, I’m trying to install on my Raspberry Pi following this guide Install Discourse on a residential internet with Cloudflare Tunnel Fresh install of PiOS Lite and I get the following error. FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' failed with return # Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/pups-1.2.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:132:in `spawn' exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"db_migrate", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'"]} bootstrap failed with exit code 1 ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one. Tried multiple times, but not really sure what I am doing wrong. Any guidance would be fantastic!

I just get bash: lsof: command not found when I run that

hmmm seem it isn’t installed on raspberry pi by default. I’m no expert on raspberry pi stuff, but lsof is linux command to list open files or processes to install sudo apt update sudo apt install lsof

Sorry - A bit hasty with my response. I did a quick google and installed lsof first, then ran the command again and got no results.

I installed redis as well with sudo apt-get install redis-server when I run that lsof command I now get this COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME redis-ser 40558 redis 6u IPv4 62230 0t0 TCP localhost:redis (LISTEN) redis-ser 40558 redis 7u IPv6 62231 0t0 TCP localhost:redis (LISTEN)

I thought that was the case - figured I would give it a go just in case! I must be doing something wrong with the install. I’ve just tried to install on a different Pi5 and different SD card and got the same result. Following along here discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

Hi @lemonade u have solution for your problem? I buy today new rPi 5 and I have the same exact problem. Yesterday I do same process on rPi4 and works fine, Im not sure if discourse is compatible with rPi 5 :frowning:

No, still not working for me. Tried 2 different Pi5’s and SD cards. I don’t have a Pi4 to try with. I just assumed I was doing something wrong and gave up! So that good to hear it might not have been me!

I tried again on Pi4 and works fine, I think sadly for now Discourse is not compatible with Pi5 As Pi5 users we will have to keep an eye on the news :sweat_smile:

Bootstrap failed with exit code 1 on Raspberry Pi 5

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) February 23, 2024, 5:24am 11

You probably don’t need this, discourse by default installs all its dependencies inside the container so a redis server on the host system is not required.

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Bootstrap failed with exit code 1 on Raspberry Pi 5

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