# Getting a more descriptive error message from my instance

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**Created:** [October 21, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-a-more-descriptive-error-message-from-my-instance/331980 "2024-10-21T21:18:18Z")\
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This almost certainly means you are not serving pages because the build didn’t complete successfully

> [@vel](#):
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> Is there a way to get better error messages?

Yes, look at your build log first (printed to console) when you run the build command. There’s probably an error there.

> [@vel](#):
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> Is there a way to start my instance without any plugins?

Comment out each plugin clone command with a leading `#` in app.yml and rebuild.

(disabling in admin menu is not a complete disable often)

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