# New users can't sign up, 404 errors in console **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-users-cant-sign-up-404-errors-in-console/397895 **Category:** Support **Tags:** discourse-id **Created:** [March 8, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-users-cant-sign-up-404-errors-in-console/397895 "2026-03-08T00:52:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 24
### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie) #### Post date: [March 18, 2026, 3:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-users-cant-sign-up-404-errors-in-console/397895/24 "2026-03-18T03:59:26Z")
> [@asc](#): > > I can’t create another new user in regular mode. I was just able to create a new account via Discourse ID, no problems. Logging out and signing in again works again, no problems. No errors in the console: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/7/a/67a269c5b7275570a9181a8186d7cdd0a9d1ddeb.png) Whatever changes you made seem to have worked? It also very responsive, that’s good. > [@asc](#): > > `Job exception: can't alloc thread` These errors are from sidekiq (the job scheduler) and indicate some kind of system-level problem, not software level. Are there limits on numbers of threads? open files? Is RAM constrained? How many unicorn threads are you running? > [@asc](#): > > I’m on a 1GB memory Digital Ocean droplet while I set things up Did you create a swapfile? > [@asc](#): > > `MaxMindDB (/var/www/discourse/vendor/data/GeoLite2-City.mmdb) could not be found: No such file or directory` Did you configure MaxMind DB downloads? > [@asc](#): > > browser errors of 404 for /assets/detect.map Again, you can ignore these as they won’t affect functionality, they’ll only show up for people opening the browser dev console. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-users-cant-sign-up-404-errors-in-console/397895)._