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: [imagem] 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: [imagem] 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

[imagem] 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 so…

Erro para usuários conectados e travamento do Git

Suporte

Ed_S (Ed S) Setembro 2, 2026, 7:48pm 5

Então
DiscourseUpdates.has_unseen_features
parece ser uma funcionalidade que está trazendo uma dependência em tempo real do GitHub funcionando corretamente? Mesmo quando não estamos tentando fazer uma atualização?

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