# Another discourse offline "bootstrap failed with exit code 5"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/another-discourse-offline-bootstrap-failed-with-exit-code-5/290104>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [December 30, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/another-discourse-offline-bootstrap-failed-with-exit-code-5/290104 "2023-12-30T22:29:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/another-discourse-offline-bootstrap-failed-with-exit-code-5/290104/3 "2023-12-30T23:43:36Z")

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The easier thing is to go ahead and spin up a new droplet and copy /var/discourse to it and rebuild there. That will solve the problem rather than mitigate it.

There is a launcher command that will give you the docker command which might help. You can look at the launcher script to find its name (but I’m on my phone).

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