# Discourse stuck on "Currently Upgrading"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-stuck-on-currently-upgrading/39072>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-stuck-on-currently-upgrading/39072 "2016-02-05T00:29:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Backgren](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peter_backgren/32/66263_2.png) [@Peter\_Backgren](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Peter_Backgren)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-stuck-on-currently-upgrading/39072/16 "2019-04-26T18:08:52Z")

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Just adding another use case here with all the known problems. Thankfully there was help here as always (eventually after asking but _always_ 🙂 ).

Using a DO 30G maybe 5 year old installation. Yes, I know that’s pretty much asking for trouble, I haven’t had time to even check out their last 2 year ago upgrade so…

Got the Discourse Currently Upgrading, could not reset it.

Cursed having to ssh in to fix things, and of course I had 24G used which did NOT free up enough using the usual methods.

Eventually found the autoclean and autoremove which gave me another 5G and then things got better.

_Could those two perhaps be a question in the rebuild when you run out of disk space?_

Anyway, I guess even docker upgraded as I had both upgrades waiting.

The only question here really is, why on earth did I even end up in some “auto upgrade”? I specifically upgrade with 3-6 month intervals depending on when I have time to sit here and figure out why things went wrong this time 😉 . Of the last four upgrades only one has gone through nicely (yes, did I mention disk space already lol).

End nag :

I simply want a running forum, one I can take care of from anywhere, without having to resort to ssh and public/private keys etc which I don’t have access to everywhere.

So a MS-style forced upgrade (even if there is a setting somewhere which I have NOT selected specifically) is a real no-no when the result possibly is a non-working forum when you get annoyed of the dashboard nags.

But never mind, I would not change this software to anything else. If nothing else it keeps my outdated Linux knowledge up to date a bit 😃 .

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