Ubuntu 16 Clicked the web upgrade like we have many times. failed now the app won’t rebuild unsupported docker version. Any ideas? I could try upgrading the OS etc but that’s a lot of time I didn’t have today. Anyway to go back? I tried setting the version to the old hash but I immediately get t…

Ok here’s how we got it fixed (It is not for the faint of heart) Upgrade Ubuntu to a version that supports Docker 20+ We were in Ubuntu 16 I had to get to at least Ubuntu 20 so we did this upgrade twice RELEASE_UPGRADER_ALLOW_THIRD_PARTY=1 do-release-upgrade Once we got to Ubuntu 20 we had to …

You can’t upgrade. I would move to a new vm and restore the database there. It’s easier, had little down time, and if something goes wrong, you just keep using the working server.

[image] Jose_C_Gomez: Anyway to go back? Oh. Sorry. I didn’t read carefully enough. No. You can’t go back. You might be able to upgrade docker if you use docker’s install.

I got OS upgraded etc and it went through postgress 15 upgrade but now when I do rebuild app I get 2025-05-18 14:58:28.208 UTC [1455] discourse@discourse ERROR: column "require_message" does not exist at character 72 2025-05-18 14:58:28.208 UTC [1455] discourse@discourse STATEMENT: SELECT id, nam…

[image] Jose_C_Gomez: ? I’m not sure how it is missing a column Yeah. There are some topics about similar problems. A migration for reverted, I think, so you’re left in a limbo state. Maybe add the column by hand.

I’m not sure how to do that, more specifically to which table etc. Is there some information on that that I can find. I did find that post you mention but there were no specifics. THank you!

I can’t even get the DB mounted enough to add the column. I’m going to try disabling all plugins and see if I can at least get the countainer started.

Glad you got it working! That’s quite impressive! [image] Jose_C_Gomez: This was supposed to be a quick in-place upgrade from the web interface. You don’t get to do quick updates when your OS is 4 years beyond EOL. :wink:

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Jose_C_Gomez (Jose C Gomez) May 18, 2025, 4:46pm 11

Yuup, Lesson Learned thanks again!

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