Discourse stuck when updating

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Hi,

I’m in charge of running a Discourse forum for one organization I’m part of. It’s running on an Ubuntu 18.04 box on AWS. I’m somewhat familiar with Ubuntu, not really with Discourse.

I’ve tried upgrading to the latest version and get stuck. Here’s what I’ve tried:

# apply security updates
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

# update packages
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

# update Docker
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

# try updating Discourse again
cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app

Whenever I reach the following steps the update hangs:


I, [2023-09-28T21:24:31.330675 #1]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && gem install bundl
er --conservative -v $(awk '/BUNDLED WITH/ { getline; gsub(/ /,""); print $0 }' Gemfile.lo
ck)
I, [2023-09-28T21:24:32.423727 #1]  INFO -- : Successfully installed bundler-2.4.13
1 gem installed

I, [2023-09-28T21:24:32.424286 #1]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && find /var/www/dis
course ! -user discourse -exec chown discourse {} \+
I, [2023-09-28T21:26:48.768332 #1]  INFO -- : 
I, [2023-09-28T21:26:48.769200 #1]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && if [ "tests-passe
d" != "tests-passed" ]; then
  rm -rf app/assets/javascripts/node_modules
fi
I, [2023-09-28T21:26:48.771875 #1]  INFO -- : 
I, [2023-09-28T21:26:48.772302 #1]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c '
yarn install --frozen-lockfile && yarn cache clean'
warning " > @glint/environment-ember-loose@1.1.0" has unmet peer dependency "@glimmer/comp
onent@^1.1.2".
warning " > @glint/environment-ember-template-imports@1.1.0" has unmet peer dependency "em
ber-template-imports@^3.0.0".
warning " > @mixer/parallel-prettier@2.0.3" has unmet peer dependency "prettier@^2.0.0".

htop shows a few yarn.js processes that seem stuck:

13727 ubuntu     20   0  911M  160M 29000 S  2.7 16.5  0:54.90 node /usr/share/yarn/bin/yarn.js install --frozen-lockfile
13747 ubuntu     20   0  911M  160M 29000 D  0.7 16.5  0:04.90 node /usr/share/yarn/bin/yarn.js install --frozen-lockfile

Anything I can try?

Thanks in advance.

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In case it’s relevant, what version of Discourse are you upgrading from?

It seems that this is where things are getting stuck. It’s a longshot, but possibly this is related: Stuck on yarn install, Time out.

It might be worth confirming that your server meets the software requirements shown here: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL.md.

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Well you were right about this one. I’ve followed the same procedure and the update went through instead of timing out. It took a long time to run (~20 hours) because the machine was overloaded, but that’s another story.

Thanks for helping out.

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