Update Problem

I was unable to take a backup in discourse. The update web page said there was a newer version, but it would not upgrade because the actual page after the update page said there were no updates. So, I ended up doing:

cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app

It went on for a long time and then I saw these errors and not sure where to go next.

rake aborted!
NoMethodError: undefined method `path' for nil:NilClass
/var/www/discourse/lib/discourse_ip_info.rb:48:in `mmdb_download'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:281:in `block (3 levels) in <main>'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:281:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/assets.rake:281:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
Tasks: TOP => assets:precompile
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
I, [2023-03-10T02:47:53.924124 #1]  INFO -- : yarn run v1.22.19
$ /var/www/discourse/app/assets/javascripts/node_modules/.bin/ember build -prod
WARNING: Node v18.14.2 is not tested against Ember CLI on your platform. We recommend that you use the most-recent "Active LTS" version of Node.js. See https://git.io/v7S5n for details.
Environment: production
cleaning up...
Built project successfully. Stored in "dist/".
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Done in 123.18s.
Downloading MaxMindDB...
Compressing Javascript and Generating Source Maps

I, [2023-03-10T02:47:53.924439 #1]  INFO -- : Terminating async processes
I, [2023-03-10T02:47:53.924471 #1]  INFO -- : Sending INT to HOME=/var/lib/postgresql USER=postgres exec chpst -u postgres:postgres:ssl-cert -U postgres:postgres:ssl-cert /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postmaster -D /etc/postgresql/13/main pid: 42
I, [2023-03-10T02:47:53.924522 #1]  INFO -- : Sending TERM to exec chpst -u redis -U redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf pid: 103
2023-03-10 02:47:53.924 UTC [42] LOG:  received fast shutdown request
103:signal-handler (1678416473) Received SIGTERM scheduling shutdown...
2023-03-10 02:47:53.931 UTC [42] LOG:  aborting any active transactions
2023-03-10 02:47:53.934 UTC [42] LOG:  background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 51) exited with exit code 1
2023-03-10 02:47:53.938 UTC [46] LOG:  shutting down
103:M 10 Mar 2023 02:47:53.972 # User requested shutdown...
103:M 10 Mar 2023 02:47:53.972 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting.
103:M 10 Mar 2023 02:47:54.001 * DB saved on disk
103:M 10 Mar 2023 02:47:54.001 # Redis is now ready to exit, bye bye...
2023-03-10 02:47:54.041 UTC [42] LOG:  database system is shut down


FAILED
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Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 1005 exit 1>
Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"assets_precompile", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake themes:update assets:precompile'"]}
bootstrap failed with exit code 1
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.
5115b973666558d470cf5d4548ea7d20e13f03bd084ac50477a7edca2f1a5bc1
root@Discourse-1:/var/discourse# 

Continued in Update from 3.0.0.beta16 to 3.1.0.beta2