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

[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.

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

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?

Tried skipping the steps and ran ./launcher rebuild app again. During the process, some errors appeared but it still continued: I, [2025-09-04T03:40:40.494062 #1] INFO -- : I, [2025-09-04T03:40:40.494476 #1] INFO -- : > /usr/local/bin/create_db 2025-09-04 03:40:40.678 UTC [63] postgres@postgres E…

[image] wenqin: 最后的输出 Just to be sure, there was no error in between? Could you send the output in ``` if there is? Thanks.

Forum not working after update – what’s missing?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) September 4, 2025, 8:01am 32

Discourse Docs is EOL. Is there a reason you’re using it in addition to Discourse Doc Categories?

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