Without me changing anything, my Discourse forum https://lilypond.community suddenly started returning an error page for any request with login cookies: Oops The software powering this discussion forum encountered an unexpected problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Detailed information ab…

Same error than this: [immagine] Fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com' Self-hosting I tried upgrade my 2-container forum, but it fails. Any ideas why? x86_64 arch detected. …

Oh, actually, if I log in with an unprivileged user account, it works, but not with my admin account. So I suspect it’s the upgrade part of the admin interface that’s hanging in these Git operations?

Seen here too. Admins and mods are blocked while things time out, I think. Process tree: 1000 2169778 0.0 0.3 497160 13392 ? Sl Aug17 0:15 | \_ pitchfork monitor - 1000 2169783 0.0 5.4 6554324 212356 ? Sl Aug17 4:55 | | \_ pitchfork …

So DiscourseUpdates.has_unseen_features seems to be a feature which is bringing in a realtime dependency on github working correctly? Even when we’re not trying to upgrade?

Edit: this did not solve my problem, as I discover after several hours. I’ve unchecked this feature: admin->site admin → version checks → clear the checkbox → save [image] Site admin Configure various settings relating to the management of your site version_checks Ping the Discourse Hub for…

How did you manage get the admin interface to open without error in the first place?

I had to wait until the git nonsense timed out, and/or could get my request served to a pitchfork which wasn’t blocked. My forum/logs area is presently showing 4 cases of “pitchfork worker timed out” and it’s not a very busy forum at all.

Edit: this did not solve my problem, as I discover after several hours. One could also use rails from an ssh access, I believe. This might be a terrible idea. Proceed at your own risk. # docker exec -i app rails runner 'puts SiteSetting.version_checks' true # docker exec -i app rails runner 'Sit…

It seems that Github continue with issues, that were the previous ones: [immagine] The August 17 outage, and the work ahead An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. Est. reading time: 4 minutes

[immagine] Ed_S: My forum/logs area is presently showing 4 cases of “pitchfork worker timed out” and it’s not a very busy forum at all. I’m now seeing 15 cases of pitchfork worker timed out, with two different backtraces. On the linux side pitchfork continues to accrue unreaped children and …

Errore per gli utenti connessi e blocco di Git

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Jagster (Jakke Flemming) 2 Settembre 2026, 7:16pm 2

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