Hello everyone! I encountered a problem installing Forem SelfHost on DigitalOcean, although I had previously installed it without problems.
It is useless to contact forem.dev, since this site has already been abandoned, so I ask for help here.
The installation is successful, but when I enter the command sudo systemctl restart forem-traefik.service, nothing happens.
There was a similar problem here: DigitalOcean: forem-traefik.service: Job forem-traefik.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. - Author @ben
If I run the command sudo systemctl start forem-rails.service, an error appears:
Job for forem-rails.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status forem-rails.service" and "journalctl -xeu forem-rails.service" for details.
journalctl -xeu forem-rails.service:
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: Disable partial writes in config/application.rb:
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]:
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: config.active_record.partial_inserts = false
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]:
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: rails aborted!
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: StandardError: An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled: (StandardError)
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: === Dangerous operation detected #strong_migrations ===
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: Partial writes are enabled, which can cause incorrect values
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: to be inserted when changing the default value of a column.
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: Disable partial writes in config/application.rb:
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: config.active_record.partial_inserts = false
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: /opt/apps/forem/db/migrate/20201019012200_change_email_preference_default_values.rb:3:in `change'
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: Tasks: TOP => db:prepare
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: (See full trace by running task with --trace)
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: /opt/apps/forem/db/migrate/20201019012200_change_email_preference_default_values.rb:3:in `change'
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: Tasks: TOP => db:prepare
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: (See full trace by running task with --trace)
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:50.024271 #23] INFO -- ddtrace: [ddtrace] DATADOG CONFIGURATION - PROFILING - {"profiling_enabled">
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:50.031794 #23] INFO -- ddtrace: [ddtrace] DATADOG CONFIGURATION - CORE - {"date":"2024-11-06T01:37>
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:50.788441 #23] INFO -- honeybadger: ** [Honeybadger] Initializing Honeybadger Error Tracker for Ru>
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:51.795942 #23] INFO -- : Migrating to ChangeEmailPreferenceDefaultValues (20201019012200)
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: == 20201019012200 ChangeEmailPreferenceDefaultValues: migrating ===============
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails-bootstrap[7552]: E, [2024-11-06T01:37:51.813351 #23] ERROR -- honeybadger: ** [Honeybadger] Unable to send error report: API key is missi>
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:50.024271 #23] INFO -- ddtrace: [ddtrace] DATADOG CONFIGURATION - PROFILING - {"profiling_enabled":false}
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:50.031794 #23] INFO -- ddtrace: [ddtrace] DATADOG CONFIGURATION - CORE - {"date":"2024-11-06T01:37:50+00:00">
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:50.788441 #23] INFO -- honeybadger: ** [Honeybadger] Initializing Honeybadger Error Tracker for Ruby. Ship i>
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: I, [2024-11-06T01:37:51.795942 #23] INFO -- : Migrating to ChangeEmailPreferenceDefaultValues (20201019012200)
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: == 20201019012200 ChangeEmailPreferenceDefaultValues: migrating ===============
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com forem-rails[7527]: E, [2024-11-06T01:37:51.813351 #23] ERROR -- honeybadger: ** [Honeybadger] Unable to send error report: API key is missing. id=ed5>
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com conmon[7552]: conmon 707de065670f2dfb4e55 <nwarn>: Failed to open cgroups file: /sys/fs/cgroup/machine.slice/machine-libpod_pod_059e3778034af6e7ab375>
Nov 06 01:37:51 www.informland.com podman[7527]: 2024-11-06 01:37:51.897910895 +0000 UTC m=+15.670031717 container died 707de065670f2dfb4e553ddb1d080dd117372942c5abd1358a34a0e8f7a20648>
Nov 06 01:37:52 www.informland.com podman[7612]: 2024-11-06 01:37:52.111013065 +0000 UTC m=+0.197569767 container remove 707de065670f2dfb4e553ddb1d080dd117372942c5abd1358a34a0e8f7a2064>
Nov 06 01:37:52 www.informland.com podman[7612]: 2024-11-06 01:37:52.173605736 +0000 UTC m=+0.260162464 volume remove 9f13dadbb4943e27420eb3e47c3bbac716526ecaa896acd9606ef4a4ccde79fb
Nov 06 01:37:52 www.informland.com systemd[1]: forem-rails.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
░░ Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ An ExecStartPre= process belonging to unit forem-rails.service has exited.
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░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Nov 06 01:37:52 www.informland.com systemd[1]: forem-rails.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ The unit forem-rails.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 06 01:37:52 www.informland.com systemd[1]: Failed to start forem-rails.service - Forem Rails Service.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit forem-rails.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ A start job for unit forem-rails.service has finished with a failure.
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░░ The job identifier is 13892 and the job result is failed.
Nov 06 01:37:52 www.informland.com systemd[1]: forem-rails.service: Consumed 1.551s CPU time.
░░ Subject: Resources consumed by unit runtime
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ The unit forem-rails.service completed and consumed the indicated resources.
systemctl list-units forem* --all:
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION
forem-container.service loaded inactive dead Forem container service
forem-imgproxy.service loaded active running Forem Imgproxy Service
forem-openresty.service loaded inactive dead start Forem OpenResty Service
forem-pod.service loaded active running Forem pod service
forem-postgresql.service loaded active running Forem Postgresql Service
forem-rails.service loaded activating start-pre start Forem Rails Service
forem-redis.service loaded active running Forem Redis Service
forem-traefik.service loaded inactive dead start Forem Traefik Service
forem-worker.service loaded inactive dead start Forem Worker Service
forem.service loaded active exited Forem Service
foremctl status:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
0554224b6823 localhost/podman-pause:5.2.4-1728259200 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp 059e3778034a-infra
063379be747a docker.io/darthsim/imgproxy:v2 imgproxy 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp forem-imgproxy
e646bc30cd18 docker.io/library/postgres:11 postgres 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp forem-postgresql
e39e6e9f4bbb docker.io/library/redis:6.0.1 redis-server --ap... 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp forem-redis
Can anyone help solve the problem? :)
Top comments (10)
This is most likely a bug in Forem. The migration
ChangeEmailPreferenceDefaultValuesdoes not pass static checks from strong_migrations gem.The fix is rather simple. Go to
config/application.rband disable partial writes withBut it should be fixed in the code of Forem too, I think.
Hi @katafrakt ! Thanks for the answer. But in the config github.com/forem/forem/blob/main/c... I didn't find this line:
Should I just add it?
Yes. It should be safe to add.
@katafrakt Pawel, I forgot which folder the Forem files are in?
Previously I was able to access Forem files by opening a Rails container, but now that container won't start. So I can't access the application.rb file.
After restarting with the command sudo systemctl restart forem.service, the container with Rails appears, but after a few seconds it immediately disappears.
I'm not really familiar with this set up. If the container now dies, perhaps there's something wrong with the config file. Where did you add this line mentioned in the previous comment?
I haven't added it anywhere yet. I wanted to add it to forem/config
/application.rb, but as I already wrote, I can't open the Rails container to change the file. After installing Forem, this problem with Rails immediately appears :)
When starting Rails, it gives an error. The logs indicate this:
Could you share the instructions you are following with this? You should not change it inside the running container, rather somewhere in the code and rebuild the container. This needs to be changed by the time the container starts.
Pawel, thank you very much for your help! I haven't encountered this yet. If you have time, could you tell me how to rebuild and upload the container to the server?
I can thank you with PayPal :)
I assume you are using this github.com/forem/selfhost, right? Unfortunately from what I see this uses some pre-built docker image and I don't know Ansible to know how you can replace it with your own.
True. I don't know either. I'll have to study.