# Recovering Discourse from a failed update

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/recovering-discourse-from-a-failed-update/46752>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Juillet 2, 2016, 5:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recovering-discourse-from-a-failed-update/46752 "2016-07-02T17:14:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![sjmscott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sjmscott/32/198290_2.png) [@sjmscott](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sjmscott)\
**Post date:** [Juillet 2, 2016, 9:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recovering-discourse-from-a-failed-update/46752/7 "2016-07-02T21:14:57Z")

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I got stuck upgrading and I tried to the following:

> [@](#):
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> cd /var/discourse  
> git pull  
> ./launcher app rebuild

I am getting the identical message.

> [@barryparr](#):
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> root@coastsider:/var/discourse# ./launcher rebuild  
> Config file was not found, ensure containers/.yml exists

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