Hi All- First post here, thanks in advance for having me. Running a routine albeit overdue set of upgrades on our Discourse-powered forum ( https://forum.troygrady.com ), and we’ve hit a point where the upgrade fails after doing the command line “git pull” and “rebuild” steps as advised by the on-…

Discourse upgrade error "FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP"

IAmGav (Gavin Perch) August 29, 2021, 9:38pm 9

try this

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