# Failure to rebuild app

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [May 31, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658 "2022-05-31T18:44:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author: ![DeadlyDragon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deadlydragon/32/262163_2.png) [@DeadlyDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeadlyDragon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/1 "2022-05-31T18:44:19Z")

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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.

```plaintext
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.

```plaintext
==================== 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](https://forum.playtfg.com/MTk0M2M2YzVlMDc5ZDA0.txt)

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/2 "2022-05-31T18:47:44Z")

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> [@DeadlyDragon](#):
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> ` - git clone https://github.com/gdpelican/babble.git`

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.

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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/3 "2022-05-31T18:49:10Z")

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

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### Author: ![DeadlyDragon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deadlydragon/32/262163_2.png) [@DeadlyDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeadlyDragon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/4 "2022-05-31T18:52:51Z")

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Giving it a shot now, will update with results.

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### Author: ![DeadlyDragon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deadlydragon/32/262163_2.png) [@DeadlyDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeadlyDragon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/5 "2022-05-31T18:53:30Z")

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

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### Author: ![DeadlyDragon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deadlydragon/32/262163_2.png) [@DeadlyDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeadlyDragon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/6 "2022-05-31T19:27:03Z")

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

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### Author: ![DeadlyDragon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deadlydragon/32/262163_2.png) [@DeadlyDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeadlyDragon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/7 "2022-05-31T19:27:40Z")

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

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### Author: ![DeadlyDragon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deadlydragon/32/262163_2.png) [@DeadlyDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeadlyDragon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/8 "2022-05-31T20:06:43Z")

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

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/9 "2022-05-31T20:34:42Z")

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Babble is [no longer being maintained](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/87297), there’s now an [official chat plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734/) ([github](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat)).

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### Author: ![DeadlyDragon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deadlydragon/32/262163_2.png) [@DeadlyDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeadlyDragon)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/10 "2022-05-31T20:50:28Z")

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

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failure-to-rebuild-app/228658/11 "2022-06-30T20:50:56Z")

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