When trying to upgrade our Discourse instance, it required a git pull today, but the ./launcher rebuild is failing with FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP and I’m not yet seeing where the failure is coming from. We’re running Discourse on Ubuntu 18.04. Everything has been going fine up until today’s upgrade. Our…

[image] burke: Discourse requires Redis 6.2.0 or up What Redis are you using? See also Skip Redis Version Check

Ah. I see. We’re running discourse_docker with linked web and data containers , so Redis is running within our data container. Within our data container: # redis-server --version Redis server v=5.0.5 So, that explains it. It looks like we need to upgrade our data container as well. That makes me m…

Wow. Looking through git history it looks like the Redis version hasn’t been in 5.x range for two years! But I know we’ve done some successful upgrades along the way (including git pulls). Based on Skip Redis Version Check , it looks like they recently started getting enforced. I’ve already dug a bi…

[image] burke: I’ll try reverting to an even earlier version of docker_discourse That won’t work, as the check comes from the main repo. Leaving the data constainers without updates for multiple years is not great, as we shipped performance and security fixes many times on that period. Yet a…

You need to rebuild the data container. See also PostgreSQL 13 update

Thanks. Waiting on Postgres upgrade as we speak. :slight_smile: And thanks for the link to the Postgres 13 update tips. Very helpful!

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 18, 2022, 7:55pm 2

What Redis are you using?

See also Skip Redis Version Check

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