I manage a Discourse instance on https://lilypond.community. A few hours ago, I used the Web interface to upgrade Discourse to 3.3.0beta2. It failed with the same error as on 3.3.0.beta2-dev update error - #8 by david. At that moment, I didn’t have the time to investigate, so I left it as-is, but the forum still looked functional. Now it’s giving Oops The software powering this discussion forum encountered an unexpected problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Detailed information about the error was logged, and an automatic notification generated. We’ll take a look at it. No further action is necessary. However, if the error condition persists, you can provide additional detail, including steps to reproduce the error, by posting a discussion topic in the site’s feedback category. on any page (/, /t/topic-slug, etc). I followed the advice on the linked topic: cd /var/discourse git pull ./launcher rebuild app ./launcher start app but it didn’t help. I’m not 100% sure the problem is actually related to the upgrade, though I find it likely. This is what I find in /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log, just after trying to access the page https://lilypond.community/t/effacer-les-citations-du-conducteur/5698/8: Started GET "/t/effacer-les-citations-du-conducteur/5698/8" for [IP redacted] at 2024-05-16 20:49:53 +0000 Processing by TopicsController#show as HTML Parameters: {"slug"=>"effacer-les-citations-du-conducteur", "topic_id"=>"5698", "post_number"=>"8"} Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 39ms (ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 14832) NoMethodError (undefined method `visibility_reason_id' for # ) app/serializers/topic_view_serializer.rb:327:in `include_visibility_reason_id?' (eval):37:in `_fast_attributes' app/controllers/topics_controller.rb:1360:in `block (2 levels) in perform_show_response' app/controllers/topics_controller.rb:1354:in `perform_show_response' app/controllers/topics_controller.rb:187:in `show' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:423:in `block in with_resolved_locale' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:423:in `with_resolved_locale' lib/middleware/omniauth_bypass_middleware.rb:64:in `call' lib/content_security_policy/middleware.rb:12:in `call' lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb:391:in `call' lib/middleware/csp_script_nonce_injector.rb:12:in `call' config/initializers/008-rack-cors.rb:14:in `call' config/initializers/100-quiet_logger.rb:20:in `call' config/initializers/100-silence_logger.rb:29:in `call' lib/middleware/enforce_hostname.rb:24:in `call' lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb:277:in `call' start done For a user page: Started GET "/u/jeanas/" for [IP redacted] at 2024-05-16 20:47:21 +0000 Processing by UsersController#show as HTML Parameters: {"username"=>"jeanas"} Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 180ms (ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 80166) NoMethodError (undefined method `custom_homepage' for # ) app/serializers/user_serializer.rb:327:in `can_pick_theme_with_custom_homepage' (eval):100:in `_fast_attributes' app/controllers/users_controller.rb:152:in `block (2 levels) in show' app/controllers/users_controller.rb:149:in `show' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:423:in `block in with_resolved_locale' app/controllers/application_controller.rb:423:in `with_resolved_locale' lib/middleware/omniauth_bypass_middleware.rb:64:in `call' lib/content_security_policy/middleware.rb:12:in `call' lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb:393:in `call' lib/middleware/csp_script_nonce_injector.rb:12:in `call' config/initializers/008-rack-cors.rb:14:in `call' config/initializers/100-quiet_logger.rb:20:in `call' config/initializers/100-silence_logger.rb:29:in `call' lib/middleware/enforce_hostname.rb:24:in `call' lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb:277:in `call' And for the root page: Started GET "/" for [IP redacted] at 2024-05-16 20:54:16 +0000 NoMethodError (undefined method `custom_homepage' for # ) lib/homepage_helper.rb:5:in `resolve' lib/homepage_constraint.rb:12:in `matches?' lib/middleware/omniauth_bypass_middleware.rb:64:in `call' lib/content_security_policy/middleware.rb:12:in `call' lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb:393:in `call' lib/middleware/csp_script_nonce_injector.rb:12:in `call' config/initializers/008-rack-cors.rb:14:in `call' config/initializers/100-quiet_logger.rb:20:in `call' config/initializers/100-silence_logger.rb:29:in `call' lib/middleware/enforce_hostname.rb:24:in `call' lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb:277:in `call'

Does it still happen if you rebuild a second time? What says the rebuild log if the issue persists? :thinking:

Looking at the code, it seems that visibility_reason_id and such are database fields new in this version, that were supposed to be added to the existing database by migrations scripts (e.g., db/migrate/20240423013808_add_visibility_reason_id_to_topics.rb). I suspect that the upgrade stopped halfway before running these. Is there a way to cleanly roll back to 3.3.0beta1 and redo the migration? If I do git checkout v3.3.0.beta1 inside the Docker container (./launcher enter app), is it dangerous?

Internal error: undefined method `visibility_reason_id'

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jeanas (Jean Abou Samra) May 16, 2024, 9:45pm 4

Oh, that worked. Thank you!

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Internal error: undefined method `visibility_reason_id'

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