Card #1952 · Discourse Meta
Forum crash during update due to plugin asset timeout
Attempting to update Discourse through the admin panel can cause the process to crash, leaving the forum unable to load. This issue is linked to plugin asset compilation timeouts during the update process.
Pain score
0.17/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.40distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement1.00upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 2 verified quotes
After trying to update Discourse through the admin panel, the process crashed, and my forum wouldn’t load.
AssetProcessor::TimeoutError: [PLUGIN discourse-doc-categories] Script terminated: timeout after 120s (AssetProcessor::TimeoutError)
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