Delete topics in Discourse

[nafets-lesierk]

Hard and permanently deleting topics in Discourse is a highly proteced feat.
The instructions say that one must invoke the Rails console and set

SiteSetting.can_permanently_delete = true

See: https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-permanently-delete-post-functionality/207109
Not getting this to work - throwing following log:
Is it the read-only!?
Cheers

/home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb/ext/save-history.rb:116:in `initialize': Read-only file system @ rb_sysopen - /home/cloudron/.irb_history (Errno::EROFS)
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb/ext/save-history.rb:116:in `open'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb/ext/save-history.rb:116:in `save_history'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb/ext/save-history.rb:60:in `block in extended'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb.rb:504:in `block in run'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb.rb:504:in `each'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb.rb:504:in `run'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/irb.rb:421:in `start'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/railties-7.0.5.1/lib/rails/commands/console/console_command.rb:74:in `start'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/railties-7.0.5.1/lib/rails/commands/console/console_command.rb:19:in `start'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/railties-7.0.5.1/lib/rails/commands/console/console_command.rb:106:in `perform'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/thor-1.2.2/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/thor-1.2.2/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/thor-1.2.2/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/railties-7.0.5.1/lib/rails/command/base.rb:87:in `perform'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/railties-7.0.5.1/lib/rails/command.rb:48:in `invoke'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/railties-7.0.5.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:18:in `<main>'
        from <internal:/home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:37:in `require'
        from <internal:/home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:37:in `require'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bootsnap-1.16.0/lib/bootsnap/load_path_cache/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:32:in `require'
        from script/rails:8:in `<top (required)>'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:58:in `load'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:58:in `kernel_load'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:23:in `run'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli.rb:492:in `exec'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli.rb:34:in `dispatch'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in `start'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/cli.rb:28:in `start'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/exe/bundle:45:in `block in <top (required)>'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/lib/bundler/friendly_errors.rb:117:in `with_friendly_errors'
        from /app/code/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/bundler-2.4.13/exe/bundle:33:in `<top (required)>'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/bin/bundle:25:in `load'
        from /home/cloudron/rbenv/versions/3.2.1/bin/bundle:25:in `<main>'

[nebulon]

Just tried this on a fresh installation and running the mentioned command:

SiteSetting.can_permanently_delete = true

in a rails console session via the webterminal and:

gosu cloudron:cloudron bundle exec script/rails console

Then without restarting discourse, the option will appear in the UI on browser refresh and it works fine here.

I can't reproduce the error about /home/cloudron/.irb_history (Errno::EROFS) but that sounds very much like a read-only issue. For this we would need to probably create a link for that file into /app/data, but I would first like to understand where this comes from.

[girish]

Is this still a problem? In the new base image atleast, the .irb_history file is symlinked.