The discussion could not be loaded. Refresh the page and try again

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Note: I’ve spent the last few hours trying to figure out what was causing this issue. I was able to figure out a solution. I’m posting this here for anyone else that might run into the same issue.

A user (ID 1379) reported seeing this message whenever they viewed a page that had a discussion forum control on it.

“The discussion could not be loaded. Refresh the page and try again”

Looking at the LMS logs, I found this request “GET /api/v1/users/1379?complete=True&request_id=09e6f162-d525-415f-a8a4-a1581cd956a9” was returning a 404.

Some digging through the forum code lead me to believe that the user 1379 was not created in the mongo database used by the forum.

Taking a look in the forum db users collection showed no users with an external_id of 1379:

tutor local run mongodb bash
mongo
use cs_comments_service
db.users.find({"external_id": "1379"})

Looking through the code some more, I came across the command reload_forum_users:

Running this command created the user and fixed the error:

tutor local run lms bash
./manage.py lms reload_forum_users

Hopefully posting this will save others some time.

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Thanks for the thorough analysis @ToddLichty. Do you happen to know why the LMS user was not correctly inserted in Mongodb?

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Unfortunately, I do not. I spent some time trying to figure that out but never found anything in the log files. If anyone has any ideas on what I should look for in the logs, I’m open to suggestions.

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Hello, I tried fix above and got an error:

error=Invalid URL ‘/api/v1/users/5’: No schema supplied. Perhaps you meant http:///api/v1/users/5?

More at pastebin: ./manage.py lms reload_forum_users
Clean Tutor version 13.1.1, problem appeared when trying “democourse” - tested for user “111653” and “martinadm”. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

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error=Invalid URL ‘/api/v1/users/5’: No schema supplied. Perhaps you meant http:///api/v1/users/5?

Hi, I am having the same issue, did you find the solution? maybe you can share it with me please

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Looks like I figured out the problem. Since Tutor v13.0.0, the forum is a dedicated plugin, so if we have a course where there is a discussion/furum, an error follows because it is disabled (by default?). You need to activate the “forum” plugin. I’ve combined the workaround straight away with an update to the latest version:

$ sudo curl -L "https://github.com/overhangio/tutor/releases/download/v13.1.8/tutor-$(uname -s)_$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/tutor
$ sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/tutor
$ tutor plugins enable forum
$ tutor config save
$ tutor local quickstart
$ tutor images build openedx
$ tutor local stop && tutor local start -d

p.s.: If you are using docker-compose.override.yml and docker-compose.jobs.override.yml - you have to take in mind that there are additional containers “forum” and “forum-job” to prevent docker-compose errors if you have for example changed MTU.

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This is the only way it works fo rme. Manag.py way didn’t work.

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For me I confirm this is the solution.
Thanks

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I had the same issue, but I had to fix it in a different way. After trying other solutions, this worked for me:

tutor plugins enable forum
tutor config save
tutor local launch

And it seems to work now. I am just reporting this in case someone else runs into the same problem.