I have been running a personal lemmy server for a long time and using Voyager (web app). The other day I updated as I have done dozens of times before, and it wouldn’t load any posts. I tried logging out and clearing my cache, but when I try to log in to lemmy.masto.community, it just says there was a problem connecting.
The server is obviously up and working or I wouldn’t be able to post this. And logged out, I seem to be able to browse public servers with Voyager. It has just suddenly become incompatible with… something? This is a managed service on Elestio, so it’s maintained automatically.
I figured if I waited a few days it would sort itself out since I can’t be the only one. But I don’t see any posts about this so now I’m wondering if I’m the only one. Any ideas? Thanks!
And I’m back. Whew, that was a rough upgrade. I had to do some manual PostgreSQL surgery to get it past 0.19.3 - there were two versions of the hot_rank function so the migration script was failing.
Then I noticed the logs were full of pictrs spitting out “Read corrupted data…” and crash looping, and I spent a couple of hours trying to get it to do anything. I finally had to give up and nuke it, so I guess the few images I’ve posted over the years are 404s now.
I started to get discouraged and I was going to just decommission the server, but I’ll try to learn my lesson and keep a closer eye on it so I can catch future problems before it’s too late.