Hi there. I got this error when upgrading Discourse. Do you guys know how to solve it? here is my discourse version Operating-System information NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS" VERSION_ID="20.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=focal UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal docker version Docker version 26.1.0, build 9714adc /var/discourse/containers/app.yml ## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container template ## ## After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild ## /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app ## ## BE *VERY* CAREFUL WHEN EDITING! ## YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT! ## visit http://www.yamllint.com/ to validate this file as needed templates: - "templates/postgres.template.yml" - "templates/redis.template.yml" - "templates/web.template.yml" - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml" ## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https) - "templates/web.ssl.template.yml" - "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml" ## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose? ## If you want Discourse to share a port with another webserver like Apache or nginx, ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/17247 for details expose: - "80:80" # http - "443:443" # https params: db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english" ## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total memory. ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected RAM, or you can override db_shared_buffers: "256MB" ## can improve sorting performance, but adds memory usage per-connection #db_work_mem: "40MB" ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed) #version: tests-passed env: LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE: en_US.UTF-8 EMBER_CLI_PROD_ASSETS: 1 # DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: en ## How many concurrent web requests are supported? Depends on memory and CPU cores. ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected CPUs, or you can override UNICORN_WORKERS: 4 ## TODO: The domain name this Discourse instance will respond to ## Required. Discourse will not work with a bare IP number. DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: discourse.abcdef.com ## Uncomment if you want the container to be started with the same ## hostname (-h option) as specified above (default "$hostname-$config") #DOCKER_USE_HOSTNAME: true ## TODO: List of comma delimited emails that will be made admin and developer ## on initial signup example 'user1@example.com,user2@example.com' DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'email@abcdef.com' ## TODO: The SMTP mail server used to validate new accounts and send notifications # SMTP ADDRESS, username, and password are required # WARNING the char '#' in SMTP password can cause problems! DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.mailgun.org DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587 DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: yummy@abcdef.com DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-bbbbbbbb-ccccccccccc" #DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true # (optional, default true) DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN: abcdef.com DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL: yummy@abcdef.com ## If you added the Lets Encrypt template, uncomment below to get a free SSL certificate LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: yummy@abcdef.com ## The http or https CDN address for this Discourse instance (configured to pull) ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/14857 for details #DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: https://discourse-cdn.example.com ## The maxmind geolocation IP address key for IP address lookup ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/137387/23 for details #DISCOURSE_MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY: 1234567890123456 ## The Docker container is stateless; all data is stored in /shared volumes: - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone guest: /shared - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log guest: /var/log ## Plugins go here ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details hooks: after_code: - exec: cd: $home/plugins cmd: - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-math.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-cakeday.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-akismet.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-github.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-translator.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-code-review.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-voting.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-data-explorer.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-reactions.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-automation.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-tooltips.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-assign.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-rss-polling.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-user-card-badges.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-teambuild.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-prometheus.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-calendar.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gamification.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode-color.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-follow.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-templates.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-shared-edits.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-category-experts.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-graphviz.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-post-voting.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-saved-searches.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-staff-alias.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-policy.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-whos-online.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bcc.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ai.git - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-algolia.git ## Any custom commands to run after building run: - exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands" ## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change: ## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once. #- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='info@unconfigured.discourse.org'" - exec: echo "End of custom commands" this is the command that I issued to upgrade Discourse. cd /var/discourse ./launcher rebuild app error I, [2025-04-10T15:51:32.679706 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && gem install bundler --conservative -v $(awk '/BUNDLED WITH/ { getline; gsub(/ /,""); print $0 }' Gemfile.lock) I, [2025-04-10T15:51:33.940918 #1] INFO -- : Successfully installed bundler-2.6.4 1 gem installed I, [2025-04-10T15:51:33.941573 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && find /var/www/discourse ! -user discourse -exec chown discourse {} \+ I, [2025-04-10T15:51:39.190810 #1] INFO -- : I, [2025-04-10T15:51:39.191737 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && if [ -f yarn.lock ]; then if [ -d node_modules/.pnpm ]; then echo "This version of Discourse uses yarn, but pnpm node_modules are preset. Cleaning up..." find ./node_modules ./app/assets/javascripts/*/node_modules -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} + fi su discourse -c 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile && yarn cache clean' else su discourse -c 'CI=1 pnpm install --frozen-lockfile' fi I, [2025-04-10T15:51:44.558550 #1] INFO -- : Detected yarn-managed node_modules. Performing one-time cleanup... cleanup done ERR_PNPM_UNSUPPORTED_ENGINE Unsupported environment (bad pnpm and/or Node.js version) Your Node version is incompatible with "/var/www/discourse". Expected version: >= 20 Got: v18.20.4 This is happening because the package's manifest has an engines.node field specified. To fix this issue, install the required Node version. I, [2025-04-10T15:51:44.559546 #1] INFO -- : Terminating async processes I, [2025-04-10T15:51:44.559682 #1] INFO -- : Sending INT to HOME=/var/lib/postgresql USER=postgres exec chpst -u postgres:postgres:ssl-cert -U postgres:postgres:ssl-cert /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postmaster -D /etc/postgresql/13/main pid: 36 I, [2025-04-10T15:51:44.559994 #1] INFO -- : Sending TERM to exec chpst -u redis -U redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf pid: 104 104:signal-handler (1744300304) Received SIGTERM scheduling shutdown... 2025-04-10 15:51:44.560 UTC [36] LOG: received fast shutdown request 2025-04-10 15:51:44.581 UTC [36] LOG: aborting any active transactions 104:M 10 Apr 2025 15:51:44.585 # User requested shutdown... 104:M 10 Apr 2025 15:51:44.586 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting. 2025-04-10 15:51:44.591 UTC [36] LOG: background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 51) exited with exit code 1 2025-04-10 15:51:44.598 UTC [46] LOG: shutting down 2025-04-10 15:51:44.634 UTC [36] LOG: database system is shut down 104:M 10 Apr 2025 15:51:44.947 * DB saved on disk 104:M 10 Apr 2025 15:51:44.948 # Redis is now ready to exit, bye bye... FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && if [ -f yarn.lock ]; then if [ -d node_modules/.pnpm ]; then echo "This version of Discourse uses yarn, but pnpm node_modules are preset. Cleaning up..." find ./node_modules ./app/assets/javascripts/*/node_modules -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} + fi su discourse -c 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile && yarn cache clean' else su discourse -c 'CI=1 pnpm install --frozen-lockfile' 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"=>"yarn", "cmd"=>["if [ -f yarn.lock ]; then\n if [ -d node_modules/.pnpm ]; then\n echo \"This version of Discourse uses yarn, but pnpm node_modules are preset. Cleaning up...\"\n find ./node_modules ./app/assets/javascripts/*/node_modules -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} +\n fi\n su discourse -c 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile && yarn cache clean'\nelse\n su discourse -c 'CI=1 pnpm install --frozen-lockfile'\nfi"]} bootstrap failed with exit code 1 ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one. ./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem. e6f9cd9a001c3b9e1208284621b73506ba021b2350e0c9cca235941538863fd9 node verion in current discourse-image [image]

[image] Phapawit_Hirunsathitphon: discourse/base 2.0.20240825-0027 9dc96b6115cb 7 months ago 3.38GB Yes, as I suspected it appears you got somehow stuck in an old image. What is the output of cd /var/discourse git pull ?

What is your server memory? & Do you have swap file setup?

[image] Heliosurge: What is your server memory? & Do you have swap file setup? Hi there. here is our memory and swap information free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3.8Gi 2.1Gi 274Mi 275Mi 1.5Gi 1.2Gi Swap: 2.0Gi 117Mi 1.9Gi

I can only guess that the cause of the error is either the big jump in versions - about 7 months of updates - or the large number of plugins. The first thing I’d try is to repeat the command line update. I think this can help, and it’s not just superstition! The second thing I’d try is commenting all your plugins out of the yml file, try the update again. If successful, you can bring them back, perhaps all at once or perhaps more carefully. But possibly someone else will have more informed advice. (In my forum, now at 3.5.0.beta2-dev, I have node version v22.14.0)

Can you please share the output of docker images ? It appears you are stuck in an old container image somehow.

[image] Falco: Can you please share the output of docker images ? It appears you are stuck in an old container image somehow. Hi there. I think here is what you ask for REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE local_discourse/app latest dfd8027ee473 6 months ago 4.75GB discourse/base 2.0.20240825-0027 9dc96b6115cb 7 months ago 3.38GB

[image] Ed_S: The first thing I’d try is to repeat the command line update. I think this can help, and it’s not just superstition! It did not work [image] Ed_S: The second thing I’d try is commenting all your plugins out of the yml file, try the update again. If successful, you can bring them back, perhaps all at once or perhaps more carefully. I did not do it yet. I will test it in development environment. thank you

[image] Falco: Yes, as I suspected it appears you got somehow stuck in an old image. What is the output of cd /var/discourse git pull ? Hi Falco. Here is the output git pull origin main From https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker * branch main -> FETCH_HEAD Removing launcher_go/v2/utils/utils_suite_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/utils/find_config_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/utils/find_config.go Removing launcher_go/v2/utils/consts.go Removing launcher_go/v2/utils/cmd_runner.go Removing launcher_go/v2/test_utils/utils.go Removing launcher_go/v2/test/templates/web.template.yml Removing launcher_go/v2/test/containers/web_only.yml Removing launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test3.not-a-yaml Removing launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test2.yaml Removing launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test.yml Removing launcher_go/v2/test/containers/standalone.yml Removing launcher_go/v2/main.go Removing launcher_go/v2/go_suite_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/go.sum Removing launcher_go/v2/go.mod Removing launcher_go/v2/docker/docker_suite_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/docker/commands_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/docker/commands.go Removing launcher_go/v2/config/config_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/config/config_suite_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/config/config.go Removing launcher_go/v2/cli_runtime_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/cli_runtime.go Removing launcher_go/v2/cli_build_test.go Removing launcher_go/v2/cli_build.go Removing launcher_go/v2/bin/.gitignore Removing launcher_go/v2/Makefile Removing launcher_go/README.md Removing image/monitor/src/monitor.rb Removing image/monitor/Dockerfile Removing image/discourse_fast_switch/create_switch.rb Removing image/discourse_fast_switch/Dockerfile Removing image/discourse_bench/run_bench.sh Removing image/discourse_bench/Dockerfile Auto-merging .gitignore Removing .github/workflows/launcher_go.yml Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy. .github/workflows/build.yml | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++-------- .github/workflows/launcher_go.yml | 45 -------------------- .gitignore | 1 + README.md | 7 +++- discourse-setup | 4 +- image/README.md | 12 +----- image/auto_build.rb | 16 +++++++- image/base/Dockerfile | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- image/base/install-imagemagick | 27 ++++++------ image/base/install-jemalloc | 6 +-- image/base/install-nginx | 4 +- image/base/install-oxipng | 8 +++- image/base/install-redis | 4 +- image/base/install-rust | 2 +- image/discourse_bench/Dockerfile | 34 --------------- image/discourse_bench/run_bench.sh | 19 --------- image/discourse_dev/postgres_dev.template.yml | 10 ++--- image/discourse_fast_switch/Dockerfile | 23 ----------- image/discourse_fast_switch/create_switch.rb | 25 ----------- image/discourse_test/Dockerfile | 7 ++-- image/monitor/Dockerfile | 13 ------ image/monitor/src/monitor.rb | 98 ------------------------------------------- launcher | 4 +- launcher_go/README.md | 134 ----------------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/Makefile | 10 ----- launcher_go/v2/bin/.gitignore | 1 - launcher_go/v2/cli_build.go | 180 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/cli_build_test.go | 254 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/cli_runtime.go | 373 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/cli_runtime_test.go | 204 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ launcher_go/v2/config/config.go | 231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ launcher_go/v2/config/config_suite_test.go | 13 ------ launcher_go/v2/config/config_test.go | 61 --------------------------- launcher_go/v2/docker/commands.go | 324 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/docker/commands_test.go | 43 ------------------- launcher_go/v2/docker/docker_suite_test.go | 13 ------ launcher_go/v2/go.mod | 30 -------------- launcher_go/v2/go.sum | 64 ----------------------------- launcher_go/v2/go_suite_test.go | 18 -------- launcher_go/v2/main.go | 92 ----------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/test/containers/standalone.yml | 109 ------------------------------------------------ launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test.yml | 121 ----------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test2.yaml | 0 launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test3.not-a-yaml | 0 launcher_go/v2/test/containers/web_only.yml | 114 -------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/test/templates/web.template.yml | 443 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- launcher_go/v2/test_utils/utils.go | 42 ------------------- launcher_go/v2/utils/cmd_runner.go | 28 ------------- launcher_go/v2/utils/consts.go | 50 ---------------------- launcher_go/v2/utils/find_config.go | 51 ----------------------- launcher_go/v2/utils/find_config_test.go | 39 ------------------ launcher_go/v2/utils/utils_suite_test.go | 13 ------ templates/import/phpbb3.template.yml | 5 ++- templates/postgres.10.template.yml | 3 +- templates/postgres.12.template.yml | 3 +- templates/postgres.13.template.yml | 175 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------------ templates/postgres.15.template.yml | 53 +++++++++++------------- templates/postgres.9.5.template.yml | 3 +- templates/postgres.template.yml | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ templates/web.socketed.template.yml | 4 +- templates/web.ssl.template.yml | 32 +++++++-------- templates/web.template.yml | 12 ++---- 62 files changed, 382 insertions(+), 3653 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 .github/workflows/launcher_go.yml delete mode 100644 image/discourse_bench/Dockerfile delete mode 100644 image/discourse_bench/run_bench.sh delete mode 100644 image/discourse_fast_switch/Dockerfile delete mode 100644 image/discourse_fast_switch/create_switch.rb delete mode 100644 image/monitor/Dockerfile delete mode 100644 image/monitor/src/monitor.rb delete mode 100644 launcher_go/README.md delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/Makefile delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/bin/.gitignore delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/cli_build.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/cli_build_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/cli_runtime.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/cli_runtime_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/config/config.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/config/config_suite_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/config/config_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/docker/commands.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/docker/commands_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/docker/docker_suite_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/go.mod delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/go.sum delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/go_suite_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/main.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/test/containers/standalone.yml delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test.yml delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test2.yaml delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/test/containers/test3.not-a-yaml delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/test/containers/web_only.yml delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/test/templates/web.template.yml delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/test_utils/utils.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/utils/cmd_runner.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/utils/consts.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/utils/find_config.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/utils/find_config_test.go delete mode 100644 launcher_go/v2/utils/utils_suite_test.go Pull again. git pull origin main From https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker * branch main -> FETCH_HEAD Already up to date.

Now that you are up to date, try a rebuild.

these are the steps that I used to upgrade discourse. it works @Falco @Ed_S Thank you for your help cd /var/discourse git pull origin main ./launcher rebuild app

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sheilaruth (Sheila Ruth) May 12, 2025, 2:09am 13

This solution (followed by a rebuild) worked for me as well. Thank you!

Sheila Ruth

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