Hi everyone, I’m having trouble updating my Discourse forum through the admin panel, and I could use some help figuring out what’s going wrong. When I try to update, I get an error message, and it stops the whole process. Here’s what’s happening: I’m using the Update Discourse from admin panel to …

[image] Brian: Error: assets/chunk.cbb4d6362a2090db10ec.d41d8cd9.js from Terser plugin failed to handle: failed printing to stdout: Resource temporarily unavailable (os error 11) Could be a shortage of virtual memory: try adding RAM or adding swap. (Fork failing with EAGAIN can be memory…

@Ed_S thank you. I have 61 GB of RAM available out of 67. Could it still be virtual memory?

That’s a lot, but vmstat and free can tell us how it’s used. Have you checked dmesg output for messages about memory and OOM? How big is your database?

Sorry for the delayed response. The issue seemed to go away without understanding why. I think it was/is a plugin because I disabled them all and the site updated normally for admin panel. I expected the issue to return when re-enabled the plugins, but it did not. I will need to check again if …

Discourse update error with Terser

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 1, 2025, 1:30am 5

Have you run a command line rebuild lately? Have you seen PostgreSQL 15 update

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