I updated my forum today, and now it’s broken and cannot be used. What should I do? Is something missing? [0f151a31d609435a19e0fc3ca89a93ff]

[image] wenqin: var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-spoiler-alert/plugin.rb Remove that plugin and rebuild

rebild and this :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: :sob: [ff686889e505994d8d17f50e057a1968]

So you tried rebuilding yet another time, you got this message (no matter how many times you rebuild)?

At this point I would consider setting up a new server from scratch and restoring the latest backup and simply moving over. Your huge screenshot is hardly readable btw.

[image] Forum not working after update – what’s missing? Self-hosting this [ed7ac342d43298da911ed5d04fed67a0] After trying again, this is the situation now. Started the installation, then followed the instructions to run the first command, but it showed…

The bottom of the logs indicate To complete the upgrade, rebuild again using: ./launcher rebuild app Can you run that please.

The error message mentioned pg. Should I upgrade pg? If so, where should I perform the upgrade?

Clicked Upgrade Docker in the forum Ran ./launcher rebuild app, and the final feedback was: Upgrade Complete ---------------- Optimizer statistics are not transferred by pg_upgrade. Once you start the new server, consider running: /usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/vacuumdb --all --analyze-in-stages…

[image] wenqin: Attempted to skip that step and ran ./launcher rebuild app again, but got this error: What was the full error when you saw that, as in the error further up in the output?

Forum not working after update – what’s missing?

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wenqin September 4, 2025, 1:27am 21

This is the second time running it, and then the error in the second screenshot appeared.

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