Rebuilding App - Weird Error

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I was performing my monthly maintenance and updates to Discourse and noticed the following errors during rebuild:

I, [2025-03-22T15:54:02.806441 #1]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake s3:upload_assets
`/root` is not writable.

and

I, [2025-03-22T15:54:12.239681 #1]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake s3:expire_missing_assets
`/root` is not writable.

Post rebuild:

  1. I am able to create posts and have new images uploaded to S3 without any issue.
  2. I was able to enter the app and run the rake commands without any issue.

Any ideas or suggestions?

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You are on sudo and on root, correct?

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All were attempted under “root” with the same session.

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5

But was the process running as root?

6

Which is why I posted the question. This has never happened before with numerous rebuilds.

7

I am in the same situation.

8

For my case, it’s db:migrate not running properly.

tried with different backend servers, but all with the same error msg.

I intiailly thought it’s due to postgres not supporting 16 or 17, so i tried to run with below hooks.

still nothing worked.

hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: /var/www/discourse
        cmd:
          - export HOME=/var/www/discourse
          - export BUNDLE_USER_HOME=/var/www/discourse/.bundle
          - apt-get update
          - apt-get remove -y postgresql-client-15
          - apt-get install -y postgresql-client-16
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After removing almost all additional app.yml items, I stumbled upon an error attributing PG vector.

With postgre vector extension installation, the build process completed successfully, although I still see ‘/root not writable’