# How to resolve Pups exec errors during Discourse bootstrap

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**Created:** [April 18, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-resolve-pups-exec-errors-during-discourse-bootstrap/362619 "2025-04-18T12:38:46Z")\
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Best guess would be that you don’t have enough memory - in which case, add swap or move to a larger-RAM instance. Try `free -h`.

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