# Building bootstrap error
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 20, 2022, 8:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175 "2022-11-20T08:14:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175/41 "2022-11-20T11:43:37Z")
You might try commenting out the templates other than postgres and then see if it’ll crank up and what those logs say.
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### Author:  [@Headless](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Headless)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175/42 "2022-11-20T11:44:40Z")
Ill def try this once the copying of server → local files is completed. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Headless](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Headless)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175/43 "2022-11-20T13:00:16Z")
Sadly, disabling them all still results in the same error.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175/44 "2022-11-20T13:44:37Z")
> [@Headless](#):
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> Seems like issues relating to the database?
I’m guessing, but it seems possible that the database was uncleanly shutdown, needs to do a recover, and isn’t quite being given enough time to finish that.
In fact, see this previous thread:
> [@Discourse update doesn't wait for Postgress DB to shut down](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-update-doesnt-wait-for-postgress-db-to-shut-down/212961/4):
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> Whenever this happens, we usually (temporarily, as otherwise Git gets confused when updating the next time) replace the `sleep 5` with a few more seconds so that Postgres has more time to settle/recover.
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> [discourse\_docker/templates/postgres.template.yml at 4cd6a5d96ab1efee9b6893d781c8af9d3d2f56e2 · discourse/discourse\_docker · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/4cd6a5d96ab1efee9b6893d781c8af9d3d2f56e2/templates/postgres.template.yml#L207-L208)
and perhaps see also this much earlier thread:
> [@FATAL: the database system is starting up](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fatal-the-database-system-is-starting-up/52806/5):
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> Try increasing the sleep in templates/postgres.template.yml locally. Is your server slow? Database too big?
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### Author:  [@Headless](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Headless)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175/45 "2022-11-20T14:09:38Z")
You sir are an actual godsend, this fixed it and I can’t thank you enough for it!!!
All I can do is praise you because god I was afraid I was going to have to restore from a backup a year ago and get the entire community mad at me.
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### Author:  [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175/46 "2022-11-20T14:26:47Z")
Glad to be able to help! Now please take a backup, and copy it to another place for safety! (I always feel a bit nervous about updates and upgrades, and my forums are a great deal smaller than yours - far fewer people to be anxious about.)
Best practice is to take a backup before any change, and copy it elsewhere in case the whole machine goes belly-up.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-bootstrap-error/246175/47 "2022-12-20T14:27:22Z")
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