Hello. I’ve been trying to migrate our current Discourse server and am trying to do a fresh install on our new VPS, but using our App config bootstrap was failing with a weird error. I tried bootstrapping from scratch with the ./discourse-setup script but even that was failing. Was wondering if there are any issues with the script at the moment? Error seen below: I, [2025-04-17T08:59:36.609118 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile:build' Node.js heap_size_limit is less than 2048MB. Setting --max-old-space-size=2048 and CHEAP_SOURCE_MAPS=1 No existing build info file found. Running full core build... ...[ConfigLoader] ...[Babel: @embroider/macros > applyPatches] ...[Babel: @ember/legacy-built-in-components > applyPatches] ...[Babel: ember-source > applyPatches] [BABEL] Note: The code generator has deoptimised the styling of /var/www/discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/ember/ember-template-compiler.js as it exceeds the max of 500KB. [BABEL] Note: The code generator has deoptimised the styling of /var/www/discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/ember/ember.js as it exceeds the max of 500KB. ...[Babel: @glimmer/component > applyPatches] ...[Babel: dialog-holder > applyPatches] ...[Babel: ember-buffered-proxy > applyPatches] ...[Babel: float-kit > applyPatches] ...[Babel: select-kit > applyPatches] ...[@embroider/compat/app] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] ...[@embroider/webpack] /var/www/discourse/script/assemble_ember_build.rb:103:in `system': Command failed with exit 1: pnpm (RuntimeError) from /var/www/discourse/script/assemble_ember_build.rb:103:in ` ' I, [2025-04-17T09:00:51.861399 #1] INFO -- : Building Environment: production The setting 'staticAddonTrees' will default to true in the next version of Embroider and can't be turned off. To prepare for this you should set 'staticAddonTrees: true' in your Embroider config. The setting 'staticAddonTestSupportTrees' will default to true in the next version of Embroider and can't be turned off. To prepare for this you should set 'staticAddonTestSupportTrees: true' in your Embroider config. building... undefined ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_EXEC_FIRST_FAIL Command was killed with SIGKILL (Forced termination): ember build -prod I, [2025-04-17T09:00:51.867412 #1] INFO -- : Terminating async processes I, [2025-04-17T09:00:51.867492 #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/15/bin/postmaster -D /etc/postgresql/15/main pid: 60 I, [2025-04-17T09:00:51.867579 #1] INFO -- : Sending TERM to exec chpst -u redis -U redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf pid: 127 127:signal-handler (1744880451) Received SIGTERM scheduling shutdown... 2025-04-17 09:00:51.867 UTC [60] LOG: received fast shutdown request 127:M 17 Apr 2025 09:00:51.877 # User requested shutdown... 127:M 17 Apr 2025 09:00:51.878 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting. 2025-04-17 09:00:51.887 UTC [60] LOG: aborting any active transactions 2025-04-17 09:00:51.892 UTC [60] LOG: background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 74) exited with exit code 1 2025-04-17 09:00:51.898 UTC [69] LOG: shutting down 2025-04-17 09:00:51.914 UTC [69] LOG: checkpoint starting: shutdown immediate 127:M 17 Apr 2025 09:00:51.920 * DB saved on disk 127:M 17 Apr 2025 09:00:51.921 # Redis is now ready to exit, bye bye... 2025-04-17 09:00:52.386 UTC [69] LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 2498 buffers (1.9%); 0 WAL file(s) added, 0 removed, 1 recycled; write=0.169 s, sync=0.237 s, total=0.487 s; sync files=2479, longest=0.017 s, average=0.001 s; distance=17712 kB, estimate=17712 kB 2025-04-17 09:00:52.411 UTC [60] LOG: database system is shut down FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile:build' 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", "tag"=>"build", "hook"=>"assets_precompile_build", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile:build'"]} 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. 70f2ceaa8de6662e06cb24304c087499e549d105eaab891ea40bccf16d50bf80

[image] Pepemosu: ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_EXEC_FIRST_FAIL Command was killed with SIGKILL (Forced termination): ember build -prod This happens when the server doesn’t have enough memory. How much RAM and/or SWAP this server have?

Total of 4G with about ~2.5G free when I run the launcher total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3911 715 2773 1 683 3196 Swap: 0 0 0 No swap though since I thought it wasn’t necessary on systems with >2GB available. I’ll try adding a swap partition.

It seems to work now after setting up thr swap. Thanks so much!

Thanks for reporting the result, I’ve made a change for that to happen automatically https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/pull/953

Discourse Launcher Failed to Bootstrap

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Falco (Falco) April 17, 2025, 12:02pm 3

This happens when the server doesn’t have enough memory. How much RAM and/or SWAP this server have?

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