I have updated my several times over the years and mostly without issue. I got a message that my discourse needed to be updated. Initially i tried to use the web update but it said I needed to login and run ./launcher app rebuild. Which I did. Below is the failure which appears to be related to the…

You must finish upgraiding in a console doing ./launcher rebuild app. Out there is new stable release

Can anyone help me here? My installation is still down and I am at a loss.

I’m a newbie but I’ll try my best to help you. I read in an earlier post you said [image] Neptune: wordsmith@digitalwind-ubuntu-20:/var/discourse$ sudo ./launcher app rebuild x86_64 arch detected. ERROR: containers/rebuild.yml does not exist or is not readable. Are you in the right directo…

[image] anon55243134: UPGRADE OF POSTGRES FAILED Please visit https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-15-update/349515 for support. You can run ./launcher start app to restart your app in the meanwhile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did…

[image] Neptune: sudo ./launcher app rebuild I think that should be sudo ./launcher rebuild app

[image] anon55243134: I am waiting for a GUI update that won’t crash everything. A GUI update won’t upgrade your database, or to put it a different way: you must, on this occasion upgrade from the command line to pick up further updates.

That’s not going to happen. I may have misread or am misremembering, but I’m pretty sure that your docker and os are no longer supported, so just stop upgrading everything. Just don’t upgrade. I helped someone recently who hadn’t upgraded in six years. They were still running Ubuntu 14.04.

And yet it is an upgrade. And you can’t do it via GUI because of database upgrading :man_shrugging:

It will be exactly the same. You will still need to upgrade docker. You will still need to upgrade the database. There is a stable release available now if I remember your version correctly.

Upgrade failed spectacularily

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I think that should be sudo ./launcher rebuild app

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