I have a new discourse instance (built this morning). App built fine and is running without any issues. However I’m trying to build the import container (using this formula) but the container fails to bootstrap. These are the errors I’m seeing. I’m not seeing anything further up the logs that seems to relate. FAILED Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle install --no-deployment --path vendor/bundle --jobs $(($(nproc) - 1)) --without test development' failed with return # Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.4.0/gems/pups-1.4.0/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:138:in 'Pups::ExecCommand#spawn' exec failed with the params {"cd" => "$home", "cmd" => ["echo \"gem 'mysql2'\" >> Gemfile", "echo \"gem 'ruby-bbcode-to-md', :github => 'nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md'\" >> Gemfile", "su discourse -c 'bundle config unset deployment'", "su discourse -c 'bundle install --no-deployment --path vendor/bundle --jobs $(($(nproc) - 1)) --without test development'"]} bootstrap failed with exit code 15 ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one. Any help appreciated.

This appears to be related to the bundle command in the phpBB3 template: templates/import/phpbb3.template.yml ed9f680b0 - chown discourse -R /shared/import - cp -n script/import_scripts/phpbb3/settings.yml /shared/import/settings.yml after_bundle_exec: - exec: cd: $home cmd: - echo "gem 'mysql2'" >> Gemfile - echo "gem 'ruby-bbcode-to-md', :github => 'nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md'" >> Gemfile - su discourse -c 'bundle config unset deployment' - su discourse -c 'bundle install --no-deployment --path vendor/bundle --jobs $(nproc --ignore=1) --without test development' Some of the CLI flags used are not compatible with the latest version of Bundler included in the base image. I’ve created a PR to fix it: FIX: Gem installs in import templates (#1104) main ← fix/import-gem-installs merged 03:10PM - 03 Aug 26 UTC (UTC) [image] s3lase +10 -5 The `--path` and `--without` flags have been removed in the latest version of Bu…ndler included in the base image, causing the `after_bundle_exec` hook to fail across all import templates. Once it’s merged, you should be able to fetch the latest changes and build the import container.

This may relate however: Removing version_gem (1.1.11) I, [2026-06-24T13:04:04.442400 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'find /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle -name cache -not -path "*/gems/*" -type d -exec rm -rf {} +' I, [2026-06-24T13:04:04.544866 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'find /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle -name tmp -type d -exec rm -rf {} +' I, [2026-06-24T13:04:04.645437 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && echo "gem 'mysql2'" >> Gemfile I, [2026-06-24T13:04:04.647649 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && echo "gem 'ruby-bbcode-to-md', :github => 'nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md'" >> Gemfile I, [2026-06-24T13:04:04.649093 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle config unset deployment' I, [2026-06-24T13:04:04.774523 #1] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle install --no-deployment --path vendor/bundle --jobs $(($(nproc) - 1)) --without test development' The `--path` flag has been removed because it relied on being remembered across bundler invocations, which bundler no longer does. Instead please use `bundle config set path 'vendor/bundle'`, and stop using this flag

i have the same problem as you do ! Have you found a fix for this ?

Unable to build phpBB3 import container

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Preston August 5, 2026, 10:29am 5

Thanks! That is much appreciated!

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