# Cannot update Discourse after Ubuntu 25.10 upgrade
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 9, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079 "2026-01-09T14:05:55Z")
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### Author:  [@Andro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andro)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/1 "2026-01-09T14:05:55Z")
Help!
Upgraded server to Ubuntu 25.10 due to impending EOL for 25.04. Now when I attempt update Discourse it fails with this error consistently:
What is causing this?
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### Author:  [@Andro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andro)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/2 "2026-01-09T14:19:36Z")
Answering my own question. I proceeded to do a git pull and a launcher rebuild app and all is back to normal. I’ll leave the query here in case anybody else hits this issue.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/3 "2026-01-09T16:04:02Z")
> [@Andro](#):
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> Upgraded server to Ubuntu 25.10 due to impending EOL for 25.04
It’s generally recommended to go with the LTS versions so you have to upgrade only once every 5 years. Though for many years I ran the latest available Ubuntu on my desktop/laptop, there’s not much advantage of living on the bleeding edge for a server.
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/4 "2026-01-09T16:05:54Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> upgrade only once every 5 years
isn’t that a stretch? new lts is available every 2 years, but jumping 2 releases at once will be a lot to chew at once no?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/5 "2026-01-09T16:13:11Z")
I recommend moving to a new server when it’s time to upgrade as an in-place OS upgrade requires lots of downtime and might have issues. So I mostly don’t move folks to a new server until the 2nd LTS release (i.e., I’ve sites on 22.04 that I’ll upgrade this year, likely waiting until 26.04.1 gets released in the summer.
Moving to a clean install requires zero downtime (especially if you can do it with a static ip that gets moved to the new server once it’s writing) working).
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/6 "2026-01-09T16:29:26Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> an in-place OS upgrade requires lots of downtime
I’ve done quite a few of them on ubuntu, and barely ever had a site out of comission for more that 2-3 minutes. Granted I’ve tested the process on staging to ensure there are no blockers but managing a fleet of two dozen or so servers justifies the extra steps.
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Moving to a clean install requires zero downtime (especially if you can do it with a static ip that gets moved to the new server once it’s writing) working).
That’s a good strategy but only works on systems that have that option, most of what I have is colocated hardware with no luxury of spinning up new machines at will.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/7 "2026-01-09T16:47:20Z")
> [@itsbhanusharma](#):
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> I’ve done quite a few of them on ubuntu, and barely ever had a site out of comission for more that 2-3 minutes.
Wow. I guess it’s been a decade or more since I’ve done one of those. I had no idea it was 2-3 minutes of downtime.
> [@itsbhanusharma](#):
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> most of what I have is colocated hardware with no luxury of spinning up new machines at will.
I’ve got a few of those too. Maybe I’ll try an OS upgrade next time.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-update-discourse-after-ubuntu-25-10-upgrade/393079/8 "2026-02-08T16:47:56Z")
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