No matter how many times I try to update, I always get Sorry, there was an error updating Discourse. Please check the logs below. when updating via the browser. I always have to rely on Terminal and that isn’t good, because then I will always have to have my forum down for like 30 minutes. If anyon…

You need to make a bigger swap file. I had the same problem. This solved it

Can you explain how to? I’m not familiar with that. I remember someone talking about it, but I don’t think I’ve made any changes (well, apparently I probably didn’t and that’s what’s causing this). Thank you

I recommend upgrading from the command line cd /var/discourse ./launcher rebuild app You might still have memory problems. If that fails, include the error and the output of free -h EDIT: Oops. Sorry, I didn’t read carefully enough: [immagine] Tiago: I always have to rely on Terminal and th…

Use Google or youtube: “Linux swap file”

Here’s Digital Oceans guide: [immagine] How To Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 20.04 | DigitalOcean One way to guard against out-of-memory errors in applications is to add some swap space to your server. In this guide, we will cover how to add a swap file t… You us…

Updates After a few conversations with Claude, here’s what’s happening: I initially had this sudo swapon --show NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /swapfile file 2G 1G -2 That was still causing the error. So I was able to increase it to 4GB, I believe: sudo swapon --show NAME TYPE SIZE …

[immagine] Tiago: Anyway, I now at least understand that a swapfile is related to disk space, not RAM. I’m using DigitalOcean’s droplet 1GB RAM, 25GB disk. A swapfile is a way to use some of your disk space as very, very slow RAM, so it’s related to both disk space and RAM. 25GB is just bare…

[immagine] pfaffman: A swapfile is a way to use some of your disk space as very, very slow RAM, so it’s related to both disk space and RAM. What I meant was that, when I saw discussions about it, when people said “create a 2GB swapfile” I thought it was related to the amount of RAM, so in my …

[immagine] Tiago: before each update, even when using the admin panel to update, I should run ./launcher cleanup via Terminal? No. Using the admin panel doesn’t make docker make more images it’s not using, but you may not have enough memory (ram plus swap) to do the upgrade from the admin pan…

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