# Upgrade failed due to process terminating
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [September 23, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646 "2015-09-23T15:52:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/1 "2015-09-23T15:52:36Z")
Today after several months of not upgrading, I upgraded docker manager successfully and then tried to upgrade docker, which failed during bundling. I tried to rebuild the container using `./launcher rebuild app` but it failed on exactly the same place.
Now when I start the app, I get this error on the web console and a blank page:
```plaintext
Uncaught Error: There is no route named user
```
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/2 "2015-09-23T15:55:12Z")
First thing to check is your plugins – do they need updating too? Perhaps you are using an old plugin that is no longer compatible with Discourse.
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### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/3 "2015-09-23T15:59:08Z")
I just tried the upgrade again, here’s where it blows up:
```plaintext
I, [2015-09-23T15:49:08.096530 #285] INFO -- : Writing /var/www/discourse/public/assets/spinner_96-8091be87c9cf1abef73e3899ec7645c1.gif
I, [2015-09-23T15:49:48.583254 #285] INFO -- : Writing /var/www/discourse/public/assets/admin-65c6808be982448a35912489faa998d1.js
[169] 23 Sep 15:52:41.064 * 10 changes in 300 seconds. Saving...
[169] 23 Sep 15:52:41.065 * Background saving started by pid 959
[959] 23 Sep 15:52:41.350 * DB saved on disk
[959] 23 Sep 15:52:41.351 * RDB: 38 MB of memory used by copy-on-write
[169] 23 Sep 15:52:41.367 * Background saving terminated with success
I, [2015-09-23T15:54:29.630194 #285] INFO -- : Writing /var/www/discourse/public/assets/application-985117f83083528097778adfdbb2ee68.js
rake aborted!
SignalException: SIGTERM
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/asset.rb:151:in `write'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/asset.rb:151:in `block in write_to'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/asset.rb:146:in `open'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/asset.rb:146:in `write_to'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:135:in `block in compile'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:118:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:118:in `compile'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-rails-2.0.1/lib/sprockets/rails/task.rb:60:in `block (3 levels) in define'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/rake/sprocketstask.rb:146:in `with_logger'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-rails-2.0.1/lib/sprockets/rails/task.rb:59:in `block (2 levels) in define'
Tasks: TOP => assets:precompile
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
zlib(finalizer): Zlib::GzipWriter object must be closed explicitly.
zlib(finalizer): the stream was freed prematurely.
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:437:in `kill': No such process (Errno::ESRCH)
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:437:in `block (2 levels) in new_subscriber_thread'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:434:in `fork'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:434:in `block in new_subscriber_thread'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus/timer_thread.rb:98:in `call'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus/timer_thread.rb:98:in `do_work'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus/timer_thread.rb:29:in `block in initialize'
I, [2015-09-23T15:54:39.790839 #38] INFO -- : Purging temp files
Bundling assets
I, [2015-09-23T15:54:39.791353 #38] INFO -- : Terminating async processes
```
---
### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/4 "2015-09-23T15:59:33Z")
I don’t believe I am using any 3rd party plugins.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/6 "2015-09-23T16:13:55Z")
> [@shadowhand](#):
>
> SignalException: SIGTERM
Weird, that implies that something terminated the upgrade like a Ctrl+c?
I also haven’t seen the `Zlib::GzipWriter` error before. Looks like something is preventing the upgrade from finishing.
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### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/7 "2015-09-23T16:31:43Z")
I didn’t abort the upgrade. Have seen this same error 3 times now.
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### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/8 "2015-09-23T16:39:24Z")
Same thing again just now, with slightly more info:
```plaintext
[176] 23 Sep 16:33:25.034 * Background saving started by pid 967
[967] 23 Sep 16:33:25.326 * DB saved on disk
[967] 23 Sep 16:33:25.327 * RDB: 4 MB of memory used by copy-on-write
[176] 23 Sep 16:33:25.335 * Background saving terminated with success
rake aborted!
SignalException: SIGTERM
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/index.rb:70:in `block in find_asset'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/index.rb:69:in `instance_eval'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/index.rb:69:in `find_asset'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:211:in `block in find_asset'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:257:in `benchmark'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:210:in `find_asset'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:119:in `block in compile'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:118:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/sprockets/manifest.rb:118:in `compile'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-rails-2.0.1/lib/sprockets/rails/task.rb:60:in `block (3 levels) in define'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-2.11.0/lib/rake/sprocketstask.rb:146:in `with_logger'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/sprockets-rails-2.0.1/lib/sprockets/rails/task.rb:59:in `block (2 levels) in define'
Tasks: TOP => assets:precompile
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:437:in `kill': No such process (Errno::ESRCH)
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:437:in `block (2 levels) in new_subscriber_thread'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:434:in `fork'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus.rb:434:in `block in new_subscriber_thread'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus/timer_thread.rb:98:in `call'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus/timer_thread.rb:98:in `do_work'
from /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/message_bus-1.0.16/lib/message_bus/timer_thread.rb:29:in `block in initialize'
I, [2015-09-23T16:34:56.867208 #45] INFO -- : Purging temp files
Bundling assets
I, [2015-09-23T16:34:56.867787 #45] INFO -- : Terminating async processes
I, [2015-09-23T16:34:56.867971 #45] INFO -- : Sending TERM to sudo -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/postmaster -D /etc/postgresql/9.3/main pid: 85
I, [2015-09-23T16:34:56.868152 #45] INFO -- : Sending TERM to sudo -u redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf pid: 174
2015-09-23 16:34:56 UTC LOG: received smart shutdown request
[176 | signal handler] (1443026096) Received SIGTERM, scheduling shutdown...2015-09-23 16:34:56 UTC LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down
2015-09-23 16:34:56 UTC LOG: shutting down
2015-09-23 16:34:56 UTC LOG: database system is shut down
[176] 23 Sep 16:34:56.960 # User requested shutdown...
[176] 23 Sep 16:34:56.960 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting.
[176] 23 Sep 16:34:57.240 * DB saved on disk
[176] 23 Sep 16:34:57.240 # Redis is now ready to exit, bye bye...
FAILED
--------------------
RuntimeError: cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake assets:precompile failed with return #
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:105:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"web", "cmd"=>["gem update bundler", "mkdir -p /shared/vendor_bundle", "cp -fr /shared/vendor_bundle/* vendor/bundle || echo \"can not copy\"", "chown -R discourse $home", "sudo -E -u discourse bundle install --deployment --verbose --without test --without development", "cp -fr vendor/bundle/* /shared/vendor_bundle", "sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake db:migrate", "sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake assets:precompile"]}
95c4e6c3dc8d1b6cb5efca65dfa15847f71cfc61701cf05c47adc0fc91cb8039
FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP
```
---
### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/9 "2015-09-23T16:45:06Z")
The error seems to be related to message bus killing another process. I’m not so familiar with that gem but maybe @sam can jump in and give some advice?
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### Author:  [@JSey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JSey)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/10 "2015-09-23T20:04:27Z")
What’s your server environment? This looks like somehow some strange supervisor tool kills processes that run too long or cause too high CPU loads…
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### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/11 "2015-09-23T20:15:25Z")
```plaintext
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
```
Running on Rackspace Cloud.
---
### Author:  [@JSey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JSey)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 6:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/12 "2015-09-24T06:20:09Z")
They don’t seem to enforce something like that by default - can you send me a
`ps auxf`
output (if you like, via PM)?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 6:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/13 "2015-09-24T06:40:02Z")
Are you running out of memory? Do you have at least 1GB RAM + 1GB swap, or 2GB RAM?
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 10:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/14 "2015-09-24T10:39:46Z")
Getting `SIGTERM` is a real curiosity. Ctrl-C sends `SIGINT`, and the OOM killer sends `SIGKILL`. `SIGTERM` is the default signal sent by the `kill` command, if you don’t specify a different signal.
Looking at the `message_bus` code, I’m about 99% sure the problem is _something_ to do with the communication being interrupted and the message bus deciding to take its bat and ball and go home. The exception coming out of `message_bus` shouldn’t happen, either (I’ll do a PR on that), but it’s a side-effect, not the cause. @sam is obviously the go-to guy on what’s going on in the innards, it being his gem.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/15 "2015-09-24T10:59:37Z")
Yeah, message bus has an optional default on keepalive test, when enabled it ships messages to itself on a regular basis, if it stops hearing echoes it knows that it is messed up internally, it can not recover, so it kills itself which is the only reasonable thing it can do
You can not kill threads in Ruby safely
When it kills itself it tries a term followed by a kill
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/16 "2015-09-24T11:00:26Z")
Sounds to me like redis has gone belly up, my guess, not enough memory
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 11:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/17 "2015-09-24T11:02:11Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> When it kills itself it tries a term followed by a kill
I think that bit of code needs a rescue in there, since if the `TERM` goes well, the `KILL` is guaranteed to raise `ESRCH`…
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/18 "2015-09-24T11:05:27Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> my guess, not enough memory
Well, we have a check for that now…
@shadowhand, are you running the latest version of `discourse_docker` (the repo that contains `launcher`)? If you’re on the latest code, if you try a `rebuild` without enough memory it should warn you of potential **DOOOOOOM** …
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### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/19 "2015-09-24T15:21:14Z")
We’re running on a server with 4GB of RAM and plenty of disk.
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### Author:  [@shadowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowhand)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/20 "2015-09-24T15:43:06Z")
After upgrading to the latest `discourse_docker` and updating OS packages, I was able to run `rebuild app` without issues.
Consider the issue resolved.
---
### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-process-terminating/33646/21 "2015-09-24T15:44:52Z")
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