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 se…

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 …

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 /v…

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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Unable to build phpBB3 import container

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