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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I have over 100GB of SSD space available- how do i officially allocate swap?

what does free -h return? [image] Ethsim2: I have over 100GB of SSD space available- how do i officially allocate swap? Swap uses some of your SSD as (very slow) RAM. install -o root -g root -m 0600 /dev/null /swapfile fallocate -l 2G /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapo…

[image] pfaffman: what does free -h return? <a class="lightbox" href="https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/f/a/f/fafe27acbd68bf29e27787985addbae4eae1635c.jpeg" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/zOnTjp2Q8URIOPivfMajjTrK4ry.jpeg?dl=1" title="The image displays a black screen with white text showing a Linux terminal output, including system information, a software release notification, and memory usage details. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[The image displays a black screen with white text showing a Linux terminal output, including system information, a software release notification, and memory usage details. (Captioned by AI)]

[image] pfaffman: [image] Ethsim2: I have over 100GB of SSD space available- how do i officially allocate swap? Swap uses some of your SSD as (very slow) RAM. install -o root -g root -m 0600 /dev/null /swapfile fallocate -l 2G /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapon /sw…

[image] Ethsim2: what directory do i run these 7 commands in? Any directory. WIth 8GB you shouldn’t need swap, but it can’t hurt. What error do you get when you rebuild?

[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…

Bootstrap failed with exit code 128

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 11, 2025, 2:34pm 8

Any directory.

WIth 8GB you shouldn’t need swap, but it can’t hurt.

What error do you get when you rebuild?

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Bootstrap failed with exit code 128

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