# How to resolve Pups exec errors during Discourse bootstrap

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-resolve-pups-exec-errors-during-discourse-bootstrap/362619
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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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#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-resolve-pups-exec-errors-during-discourse-bootstrap/362619/20 "2025-04-22T17:01:31Z")

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Is this a new installation or one that you’re moving to a new server?

So you want to look at the log file and search for “migrate” to find the migration error.

Here’s the error:

```
PG::DuplicateObject: ERROR: type "hotlinked_media_status" already exists

```

It could be an issue with something that got migrated and then a commit got reverted. This is related, but not your solution: [Restore fails with "hotlinked\_media\_status" already exists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-fails-with-hotlinked-media-status-already-exists/323795). Maybe this: [Upgrading 2.7 to 3.1 failing: "hotlinked\_media\_status" already exists - #5 by merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrading-2-7-to-3-1-failing-hotlinked-media-status-already-exists/277313/5)

Also, you should fix this, though it’s not really hurting anything:

```
Plugin name is 'discourse-topic-voting', but plugin directory is named 'discourse-voting'

```

If you do this again, please just link the file without sticking it in a tar.

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