I am creating a new discourse instance from scratch for development purposes and see this bootstrap error again: FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 1002 exit 1> Location of fai…

problem solved. CREATE EXTENSION hstore; CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm; was missing on the new database. Therefore the initial creation of the database on the external server failed. Thanks @Falco

How to resolve Pups exec errors during Discourse bootstrap

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Falco (Falco) April 19, 2025, 2:41pm 5

Can you share the whole log?

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How to resolve Pups exec errors during Discourse bootstrap

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