NOTE: Original post updated 11/25/21 PM EST with new information Notified of critical security updates to my Discourse installation I attempted to update my installation using the Web UI (/admin/upgrade) as I have done in the past. There were two pieces of software that needed to be upgraded—Docker…

Following Michael’s advice in the above post, I commented out a plug-in in the app.yml file that was from an initial attempt at SSO authentication using the VK plug-in (we never went with this implementation but obviously forgot to remove the plug-in from the app.yml file). ## Plugins go here ## se…

How about restart? From here [image] The launcher command in the /var/discourse folder are not self-explaining Self-hosting I had to change and reload the configuration a couple of times for troubleshooting Siteground mail service. There are multiple bits of …

This update requires the docker to be restarted. So, yes your discourse is gonna be offline while you run ‘./launcher rebuild app’ in then command line. All will be 100% once the rebuild is completed.

@IAmGav Docker appears to be running. [image] @rmccown ZSm8WzJ7gLigPd08D4tiwt.png) I will try some of the other launcher commands to see if I can get things up and running.

@IAmGav Ran ./discourse-doctor and it also confirmed that Docker container is running. ==================== DOCKER INFO ==================== DOCKER VERSION: Docker version 20.10.11, build dea9396 DOCKER PROCESSES (docker ps -a) CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STA…

@rmccown Tried both start and restart without luck. [image] Still get this at the URL. [image] Running sudo ./launcher rebuild app again fails with these messages (currently looking through the file for earlier error messages). [image]

When all else fails - have you tried unplugging it and plugging back in? :wink: Reboot the instance: reboot now Bring the instance up to latest: apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade Then run the Discourse upgrade.

@omarfilip That’s the first thing I tried :wink: I just tried a reboot again (no Ubuntu 18.04.6 components to upgrade from earlier upgrade). [image] Same results - 502 Bad Gateway error at URL. But thanks for the suggestion.

Also just found this from November 2020 - Upgrade ends with FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP . But I have to admit I don’t know exactly what it means to “follow our default release channel.” I assume that upgrading via the Web UI is the “default release channel.”

That would be “tests-passed.” If you have not modified this line in your app.yaml file, then you are on the default release channel: ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed) #version: tests-passed

[image] billmaya: [image] image2400×396 67.2 KB can you share the whole log, this is not enough to see the actual error.

Discourse upgrade via Web UI Fails & SSH Upgrade Brings Down Discourse Instance

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rmccown (Bob McCown) November 25, 2021, 5:00pm 2

How about restart? From here

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