OK, I know I should have refrained from updating just before my bedtime. This happened: [Screenshot 2026-02-18 at 21.43.34] I still have that window open (is the journal useful?) but the rest of the site seems down :scream: . Is this the moment to hit that red button which brings up a warning th…

I rebuilt, and it’s working new, phew! Was scary. :fearful:

If it’s still working, and I bet it is, just go to bed. Tomorrow you can do a command line upgrade.

this doesn’t sound very promising: Your Ruby version is 3.3.8, but your Gemfile specified ~> 3.4 Docker Manager: FAILED TO UPGRADE I tried ask.discourse after posting and it suggests doing a full rebuild: sudo git pull sudo ./launcher rebuild app yay or nay?

Yeah, GUI updates can occasionally fail for various reasons, and the typical next step is a command line rebuild. In my experience that’s always cleared things up. (And the sudo on those commands assumes you’re not logged in as the root user.)

[image] stephtara: Your Ruby version is 3.3.8, but your Gemfile specified ~> 3.4 Sound familiar @pfaffman ?

Just writing this for the visitors who will read this topic after having themselves issues with the GUI update: [image] ToddZ: GUI updates can occasionally fail for various reasons True, it seems more reliable nowadays, but I had enough issues with it in the past to often prefer using the …

In my experience, the big useless button.

[image] Canapin: prefer using the command-line instead, even if it’s less straightforward. That’s why I built a dashboard.literatecomputing.com that will do the command line rebuilds with a click

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I rebuilt, and it’s working new, phew! Was scary.

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