Greetings, I realize that the supported version of Discourse requires a specific set up, however… My curiosity and amount of work put in thus far compels me to ask for help here. I installed docker on an AlmaLinux VPS and installed Discourse, had it running and set it up, invited users, all was hunky-dory. I’ve not added any plugins or made any major modification beyond the front-end interface changes. And then I did a security update for Discourse that came through yesterday (or the day before). It all went smoothly. This is where the rookie mistake happened (I’m a rookie when it comes to this for sure). I decided to change my SSH port and forgot to open that port in the firewall. Well, after I fixed that I tried to restart Discourse and… FAIL Anyway, here are some of the errors (let me know if there is hope, or if I’m missing the obvious, or whatever. Be gentle :stuck_out_tongue: : FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -H -E -u discourse bash -c ' set -o errexit if [ $(git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository) == "true" ]; then git remote set-branches --add origin main git remote set-branches origin tests-passed git fetch --depth 1 origin tests-passed else git fetch --tags --prune-tags --prune --force origin fi ' failed with return # Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/pups-1.2.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:132:in `spawn' exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"code", "cmd"=>["sudo -H -E -u discourse git reset --hard", "sudo -H -E -u discourse git clean -f", "sudo -H -E -u discourse bash -c '\n set -o errexit\n if [ $(git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository) == \"true\" ]; then\n git remote set-branches --add origin main\n git remote set-branches origin $version\n git fetch --depth 1 origin $version\n else\n git fetch --tags --prune-tags --prune --force origin\n fi\n'", "sudo -H -E -u discourse bash -c '\n set -o errexit\n if [[ $(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD) == $version ]] ; then\n git pull\n else\n git -c advice.detachedHead=false checkout $version\n fi\n'", "sudo -H -E -u discourse git config user.discourse-version $version", "mkdir -p tmp", "chown discourse:www-data tmp", "mkdir -p tmp/pids", "mkdir -p tmp/sockets", "touch tmp/.gitkeep", "mkdir -p /shared/log/rails", "bash -c \"touch -a /shared/log/rails/{production,production_errors,unicorn.stdout,unicorn.stderr,sidekiq}.log\"", "bash -c \"ln -s /shared/log/rails/{production,production_errors,unicorn.stdout,unicorn.stderr,sidekiq}.log $home/log\"", "bash -c \"mkdir -p /shared/{uploads,backups}\"", "bash -c \"ln -s /shared/{uploads,backups} $home/public\"", "bash -c \"mkdir -p /shared/tmp/{backups,restores}\"", "bash -c \"ln -s /shared/tmp/{backups,restores} $home/tmp\"", "chown -R discourse:www-data /shared/log/rails /shared/uploads /shared/backups /shared/tmp", "[ ! -d public/plugins ] || find public/plugins/ -maxdepth 1 -xtype l -delete"]} bootstrap failed with exit code 128 ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.

total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.5Gi 1.0Gi 4.4Gi 6.0Mi 2.1Gi 6.2Gi Swap: 614Mi 0B 614Mi

Definitely out of memory from what I can see. Try making a bigger swap (maybe 4GB) and see if that lets you rebuild.

Discourse on AlmaLinux

itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) July 4, 2024, 2:41pm 2

If I’m not mistaken, this used to be an error on low memory situations. How much RAM/SWAP do you have on this VM?

what is the output of free -h

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