Hi, my old container still works, but i’m having trouble rebuilding. The same error appeared on both attempts before and after updating the ubuntu kernel by apt upgrade regardless of the implementation of this

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[image] pfaffman: fallocate -l 2G /swapfile <a class="lightbox" href="https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/f/d/c/fdce9893d4362305ba20a0b2931de55e44e9caef.jpeg" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/AdhqED1CtQhZpgffkBcwx7T96SX.jpeg?dl=1" title="A computer screen displays a Linux terminal showing commands being executed to create a swap file, but encountering an error indicating the swap area is too small. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[A computer screen displays a Linux terminal showing commands being executed to create a swap file, but encountering an error indicating the swap area is too small. (Captioned by AI)]

That’s an example of why copy/paste is so helpful. You missed a / before your swapfile in the fallocate command.

yes i did get PuTTy going but i found it glitchy sometimes with the highlighting did it run ok [IMG_0720]

[image] pfaffman: WIth 8GB you shouldn’t need swap i do recall when first setting up the server on a contract with Ionos, their image of 22.04 Ubuntu didn’t work with .\discourse-setup so i had to modify the app.yml myself. This was without Plesk, the Ionos data center designer self-image wo…

So this was a standard install and you created the app.yml with discourse-setup? What error do you get when you rebuild?

[image] pfaffman: WIth 8GB you shouldn’t need swap Well, I needed. Perhaps a giga would be enough, but I gave 2 GB. [image] Rebuild fails with exit 1: ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_EXEC_FIRST_FAIL Support I had feeling I’ve seen this before. I had 8 GB RAM and swap is 2 GB…

[image] pfaffman: this was a standard install and you created the app.yml with discourse-setup? yes i installed docker through .\discourse-setup

[image] pfaffman: What error do you get when you rebuild? i’ll reply here if i get a rebuild error after the already set up swap

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[image] Ethsim2: [IMG_0720] the swap has disappeared? [image]

Bootstrap failed with exit code 128

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Well, I needed. Perhaps a giga would be enough, but I gave 2 GB.

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Bootstrap failed with exit code 128

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