# Upgrade ends with FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326 "2020-11-17T03:04:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@nesnera](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nesnera)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326/1 "2020-11-17T03:04:01Z")
I tried unsuccessfully to upgrade. Any advice?
[DISCOURSE DOCTOR output](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2040281)
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326/2 "2020-11-17T05:15:10Z")
Stable is broken at the moment. I recommend following our default release channel, or waiting until a fix for
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse\_docker/pull/484](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/pull/484)
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### Author:  [@nesnera](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nesnera)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 9:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326/5 "2020-11-17T09:37:10Z")
@Falco - Thanks for your response and explanation. What does it mean
> [@Falco](#):
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> ..following our default release channel..
? Did I do something wrong? My steps:
- I started the update in `admin/upgrade`. There were several components to update, but only Docker was clickable (green).
- It was successful, but without instructions on how to proceed. Refresh displayed the instructions from [step 2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-manually-update-discourse-and-docker-image-to-latest/23325).
- I did that with this unhappy result. 😕
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### Author:  [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326/6 "2020-11-17T09:44:11Z")
I added dummy `themes:update` task in both stable and beta.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11261](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11261)
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11262](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11262)
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### Author:  [@nesnera](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nesnera)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326/7 "2020-11-17T15:09:47Z")
Good job! 👍@dan Thanks ❤
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-ends-with-failed-to-bootstrap/170326/9 "2020-11-22T02:00:13Z")
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