Hi everyone, Our Discourse forum has been down for over 24 hours. I was trying to update Discourse to the latest version, but the rebuild seems to be stuck with the message: database system is ready to accept connections I tried applying the solution from this post , but when I run apt install …

Log: WARNING: Docker version 20.10.7 deprecated, recommend upgrade to 24.0.7 or newer. x86_64 arch detected. Ensuring launcher is up to date Fetching origin Launcher is up-to-date 2.0.20251003-1437: Pulling from discourse/base Digest: sha256:0db7c9b4598e2a1806658391669d791fd779aa4301fdfbed6a7f322bf…

[image] ioanah: Docker version 20.10.7 deprecated, recommend upgrade to 24.0.7 or newer. You need to upgrade docker. You might also need to upgrade your OS in order to upgrade docker.

Discourse update stuck with "database system is ready to accept connections"

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 30, 2025, 3:32pm 3

You need to upgrade docker. You might also need to upgrade your OS in order to upgrade docker.

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Discourse update stuck with "database system is ready to accept connections"

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