We were attempting to upgrade our discourse installation via ssh (as the online upgrader seemed to not be working) using the following commands:
cd /var/discourse
git pull
sudo ./launcher rebuild app
However, on rebuild, we get the following errors:
Pups::ExecError: /root/upgrade_postgres failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 46 exit 1>
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:108:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params "/root/upgrade_postgres"
9e8b63f0e289db391bb044443f449b122b5180399e2bd231bcfb10c4ce12a92c
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one
There are no other errors that I can see, nor can I attempt to go back to the online site upgrader to retry (because the site is now dead due to the rebuild failing). We’d like to get our site back up ASAP.
I haven’t updated my instance yet, but I know that there were a lot of infra updates with the latest image release – take a peek into this topic here, this should outline a few extra steps to get things back up:
Unfortunately, I think I managed to screw it all up by doing the pg upgrade stuff in the wrong order (specifically, I forgot to backup the database before rebuilding the app again). I do have the files saved as postgres_data_old, but I can’t seem to get at them (my pg9.3 also seems to have disappeared in favor of pg-xc). Am I screwed? Currently all I’m seeing is the default discourse install
We have an automatic backup (through discourse), though not of the entire server image. Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to restore backups via ssh? The only thread I found was this one, but it doesn’t seem to apply to me (the files shown are .gz files, but the files I see in the backups folder are .tar)
How would I do that? Would I just do a fresh install and copy the file (and/or my app.yml) into the relevant directory (and then the backup should just work itself)?
