Installation fails on new server

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I am trying to install a new discourse instance on a new root server with Ubuntu 22.04
Our “old” server crashed today with major hardware failure so our hosting provider had to setup a new server. (I do have the discourse backup file from last night that I wanted then to reload into the newly setup instance.)

I am following these steps:

But the installation fails with the following error:

x86_64 arch detected.
Ensuring launcher is up to date
Fordere an von origin
Launcher is up-to-date
2.0.20220720-0049: Pulling from discourse/base
Digest: sha256:7ff397003c78b64c9131726756014710e2e67568fbc88daad846d2b368a02364
Status: Image is up to date for discourse/base:2.0.20220720-0049
docker.io/discourse/base:2.0.20220720-0049
exec /usr/local/bin/gem: exec format error
cd /pups && git pull && git checkout v1.0.3 && /pups/bin/pups --stdin
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
bootstrap failed with exit code 128
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.

But already the start of discourse-setup does show several errors.
Looks like the script is not working correctly with the German version of the Ubuntu operating system.
The errors are the lines with $avail_mem and that is because the memory cannot be determined.
Your script is looking for Mem: but in the German Ubuntu it is Speicher: when free -m --si is executed.
Same with Swap: which is Auslager: in the German version.

I have not seen any hint, that the OS has to be the English version in order to install Discourse. :wink:

root@h2951329:/var/discourse# ./discourse-setup
./discourse-setup: Zeile 166: [: : Ganzzahliger Ausdruck erwartet.
./discourse-setup: Zeile 185: [: : Ganzzahliger Ausdruck erwartet.
./discourse-setup: Zeile 194: [: : Ganzzahliger Ausdruck erwartet.
The configuration file containers/app.yml already exists!

. . . reconfiguring . . .


Saving old file as app.yml.2022-08-18-011427.bak
Stopping existing container in 5 seconds or Control-C to cancel.
x86_64 arch detected.
app was not started !
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.

./discourse-setup: Zeile 166: [: : Ganzzahliger Ausdruck erwartet.
Found GB of memory and 4 physical CPU cores
./discourse-setup: Zeile 265: [: : Ganzzahliger Ausdruck erwartet.
./discourse-setup: Zeile 269: [: : Ganzzahliger Ausdruck erwartet.
./discourse-setup: Zeile 273: 256 *  : Syntaxfehler: Operator erwartet (fehlerverursachendes Zeichen ist "*  ")

So I modified discourse-setup and replaced Mem: with Speicher:and Swap: with Auslager: and then discourse-setup did run fine without errors:

root@h2951329:/var/discourse# ./discourse-setup
The configuration file containers/app.yml already exists!

. . . reconfiguring . . .


Saving old file as app.yml.2022-08-18-013238.bak
Stopping existing container in 5 seconds or Control-C to cancel.
x86_64 arch detected.
app was not started !
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.

Found 33GB of memory and 4 physical CPU cores
setting db_shared_buffers = 4096MB
setting UNICORN_WORKERS = 8
containers/app.yml memory parameters updated.

but the rebuild is still failing:

Configuration file at containers/app.yml updated successfully!

Updates successful. Rebuilding in 5 seconds.
Building app
x86_64 arch detected.
Ensuring launcher is up to date
Fordere an von origin
Launcher is up-to-date
2.0.20220720-0049: Pulling from discourse/base
Digest: sha256:7ff397003c78b64c9131726756014710e2e67568fbc88daad846d2b368a02364
Status: Image is up to date for discourse/base:2.0.20220720-0049
docker.io/discourse/base:2.0.20220720-0049
exec /usr/local/bin/gem: exec format error
cd /pups && git pull && git checkout v1.0.3 && /pups/bin/pups --stdin
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
bootstrap failed with exit code 128
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.

So any help on this problem is appreciated.

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This is not my forte, but I’ve asked around and I think it does have to be run in English. Though I think you can do something with LANG=C to disable localization and makes all coreutils output english - linux - LANG=C is in a number of the /etc/init.d/* scripts. What does LANG=C do and why do you need to set LANG=C. - Super User

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well I did now reinstall the Ubuntu 22.04 server with locale en_GB.utf8 instead of de_DE.utf8 and did reinstall Discourse and Docker.
Now the installation did run thru without any error.
So Discourse does need an English version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system!

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