When updating using the UI updater in the admin section - It always fails. It has failed since I installed Discourse over a year ago. I can easily SSH into my server and update manually, but it is frustrating to have a feature that is not behaving correctly. Since Discourse is ran with Docker, and …

Resource requirements are now significantly lower, thanks to Introducing pre-compiled JS assets for self-hosters So hopefully these kind of Command was killed with SIGKILL (Forced termination): ember build errors should be a thing of the past :crossed_fingers:

Mine started doing it too, completely fine for 4+ years now it fails. Although sometimes it claims it fails, but when I refresh everything is up-to-date and there’s nothing to update again. But it almost always ends with ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_EXEC_FIRST_FAIL Command was killed with SIGKILL (Forced te…

In almost all cases, it would be very helpful to see the previous 50 to 200 lines of the output. It’s a pity the scripts don’t advise it.

That’s what I was wondering- was if it was connected to an issue with the code itself and not so much the hardware of my server. I guess my next possibility is just writing my own plugin with a script to manually update myself. Glad others have the same issue so it isn’t just me (I know it sucks).…

Ed, I will see if I can get that for you. And post it right away.

I’m not a developer or an expert when it comes to servers and all that. I went with Digital Ocean, just because it was the one mentioned in the official installation instructions , and because I’ve seen that name mentioned over and over again over the years. At the moment I’m on the second lowest pl…

This completely destroys what Digital Ocean offers for $6 a month with just 1GB of RAM… Would you recommend switching?

******************************************************** *** Please be patient, next steps might take a while *** ******************************************************** Cycling Unicorn, to free up memory Restarting unicorn pid: 1580 Waiting for Unicorn to reload. Waiting for Unicorn to reload.. Wa…

I believe it should work with Discourse: [image] Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Discourse, and used it to log in as an admin. For all of these the standard Install Cloud instructions work just fine. [image] R…

Thanks for the links. I took a look at the whole conversation and for a novice like myself, a lot of what’s being discussed is new to me, but I guess I will have to do some research and test it myself. If anything, I can always go back to Digital Ocean, right? Contabo seems to be indeed a good opti…

[image] alltiagocom: I have no clue what that is i think some people were confused between Inbound and Outbound. even Ionos Telephone Support really wanted to assume i meant outbound, even though i meant inbound :rofl:

Discourse Fails to update in the Admin UI - No matter what

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) July 29, 2025, 12:58pm 21

I believe it should work with Discourse:

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Discourse Fails to update in the Admin UI - No matter what

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