Hello, I’ve been trying to install Discourse inside an Ubuntu Precise VM (running on VirtualBox) using these instructions . The process fails while running ./launcher bootstrap app with the following output: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:85:in `spawn': cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -E -u discourse…

[immagine] trident: It sounds like you’re running out of memory. Ooh, didn’t know that exit code 137 meant the process was KILLed (here, by the oom-killer)! Learn something new :smiley:

Docker bootstrap failing with exit 137

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trident (Ben T) 4 Aprile 2014, 1:45pm 2

How much memory have you given your VM? It sounds like you’re running out of memory.

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Docker bootstrap failing with exit 137

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