Trying to upgrade, cannot rebuild app. This is the error message: FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake assets:precompile' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 768 exit 1> Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:112:…

Great, thanks for the extra info. I was trying to work out why nobody else has run into this issue. Multisite installations are fairly rare, and different people run them in different ways. The root cause is that you are running the assets:precompile step before you migrate all the multisite databas…

Unlikely, it is almost always third party plugins .. but you should follow the advice listed there and scroll up to look for the error.

Thanks! I’ve removed all plugins from app.yml. I left only the docker_manager plugin. I also removed all custom css from my theme. I still cannot rebuild. Since the output of ./launcher rebuild app is large, I’m copying the latest lines here. I still think that I cannot upgrade because of a theme…

Are you using a standard installation of Discourse, or do you have the database/app in different containers?

Hi David, I’m using a multisite installation. AFAIK only one container and database/app in the same container. Here is the relevant part of my app.yml templates: - "templates/postgres.template.yml" - "templates/redis.template.yml" - "templates/web.template.yml" - "templates/web.ratelimited.…

Thanks David, I’ve started to rebuild but I think I’m getting an image without your latest fix , because I’m seeing this: 20190217 git pull […] ./launcher rebuild app …

That should be fine, the fix I made was in the Discourse app, not the docker image. (The latest app version gets pulled in automatically). Are you running tests-passed, or beta/stable? Let me know if it works!

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joshm (Josh) March 7, 2019, 3:07pm 9

It worked!! I’ve been trying to upgrade for several days and you fixed it. Congrats and many thanks again!!

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