I needed to change the SMTP password, so I followed the instructions at How to modify email settings When I do the .launcher/rebuild/app, I get a loop of the following: x86_64 arch detected. Ensuring launcher is up to date Fetching origin Updating Launcher... Updating 3715498..072c526 error: Your …

Good idea, but it didn’t work. It still used the old SMTP credentials.

My bad! It’s ./launcher destroy app, not ./launcher stop app. Could you give that a shot?

That worked, but I feel like all that I’m doing is pushing off this problem until I have to rebuild it at some future date.

I think someone had a similar problem in this topic, if it’s any help: [image] Error `rebuild app` broken, at the last discourse upgrade Support Upgrade changed it automatically. Or it conflics with new source (nothing changed, just fake notice). /var/di…

I think you need to cd /var/discourse git stash git pull

[image] pfaffman: git stash git pull Thank you! This solved it.

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) June 20, 2025, 1:57pm 2

What if you tried

./launcher stop app

then

./launcher start app

? IIRC you don’t need to do a full rebuild if you just edit the SMTP details.

Would that work?

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