Failure to rebuild app

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DeadlyDragon encountered a failure while rebuilding their Discourse instance, with the error pointing to assets:precompile failing (exit code 134). After listing their plugins, community members identified potential culprits: Falco flagged babble.git as confirmed broken, and itsbhanusharma noted recent issues with discourse-awesome-bbcodes. DeadlyDragon began disabling non-Discourse plugins and confirmed awesome-bbcodes was indeed breaking the rebuild 6. Surprisingly, DeadlyDragon later found babble working for them after a successful rebuild. Stephen clarified that Babble is no longer maintained and recommended switching to the official Discourse Chat plugin. DeadlyDragon acknowledged the advice and plans to migrate. The issue appears resolved by removing problematic third-party plugins, particularly awesome-bbcodes, and considering modern replacements for unmaintained ones like Babble.

1

Hello all!
I am lost as to why my discourse is failing to rebuild. Went to do my normal upgrade and was met with the following error message.

FAILED
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Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 1163 exit 134>
Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"assets_precompile", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile'"]}
bootstrap failed with exit code 134
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.
30f1f2ee442374d7102072aff43db49f77830e45f3332526b8e2ce4c29f7cf12
==================== END REBUILD LOG ====================
Failed to rebuild app.

Here are my current plugins.

==================== PLUGINS ====================
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-adplugin.git
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-spoiler-alert.git
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved.git
          - git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/babble.git
          - git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/retort.git
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-staff-notes.git
          - git clone https://github.com/rux-pizza/discourse-awesome-bbcodes.git
          - git clone https://github.com/davidtaylorhq/discourse-whos-online.git
          - git clone https://github.com/iunctis/discourse-formatting-toolbar.git

And here is a link to the full discourse-doctor output.
https://forum.playtfg.com/MTk0M2M2YzVlMDc5ZDA0.txt

2

At least this is confirmed broken.

I’d recommend removing all that aren’t under github.com/discourse first, then carefully re-adding the ones you really need.

3

I’ve seen a few reports of awesome bbcode also being broken here on meta in last few weeks.

4

Giving it a shot now, will update with results.

5

I have this also disabled now, will come back with results.

6

bbcode is confirmed to be broken. Re-Enabled that plugin and rebuilt sure enough it broke.
Thank you for that insight.

7

Thanks Falco! That was definitely one of the problems there.

8

Coming back to this babble is actually working for me. Just finished the rebuild w/ Babble and it “works for me”

9

Babble is no longer being maintained, there’s now an official chat plugin (github).

10

Noted! thank you for the link will install this as a replacement.