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: I am able to create posts and have new images uploaded to S3 without any issue. I was able to enter the app and run the rake commands without any issue. Any ideas or suggestions?

You are on sudo and on root, correct?

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

[image] LotusJeff: under “root” But was the process running as root?

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

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’

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LotusJeff March 23, 2025, 12:43pm 6

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

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