# Update problem : Broken Forum
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-problem-broken-forum/222055
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** server-resources
**Created:** [March 26, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-problem-broken-forum/222055 "2022-03-26T20:20:17Z")
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### Author:  [@mreach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mreach)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-problem-broken-forum/222055/20 "2022-04-01T04:53:36Z")
Interestingly I’ve experienced either the same or similar error. Running on Discourse 2.9.0.beta2 and tried to update to ß3. I’ve disabled all plugins except `docker_manager` for `./launcher rebuild app`. Running on an external PGSQL db at version:
```plaintext
$ psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 14.1 (Ubuntu 14.1-1.pgdg18.04+1)
```
I can restart the container via `./launcher restart app` following the failure, but when replies return a 500 error.
The end error during rebuild/upgrade is:
```plaintext
FAILED
--------------------
Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' failed with return #
Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"db_migrate", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'"]}
bootstrap failed with exit code 1
**FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
```
The actual meaningful errors above may be found here: [https://p153.p0.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/jkuvPekN/feb38236-3b84-410e-8fac-d1864d02ba69.txt?v=eb1d15e029cb07a73300d8ec07318876](https://p153.p0.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/jkuvPekN/feb38236-3b84-410e-8fac-d1864d02ba69.txt?v=eb1d15e029cb07a73300d8ec07318876)
I’m having a hard time believing that this is an actual permission issue and I’m hesitant to give the Discourse DB use super user/root permission to pgsql.
Any further thoughts on what could be going on here with such a recent breakage?
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