docker-compose up failed (System error: not a directory)

[Treverix]

Hi,

I've started with the minimal setup and exported the mysql root password (nothing else). docker-compose up fails with an error message. The db container is running, the app container is just 'created':

docker create_container <- (name=u'piwik_app_1', image='piwik', labels={u'com.docker.compose.service': u'app', 'com.docker.compose.config-hash': '21df068f9a5ec3387938e5253de82993e624298346a19daca3a734c2eb04b20a', u'com.docker.compose.project': u'piwik', 'com.docker.compose.version': u'1.3.3', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff': u'False', 'com.docker.compose.container-number': '1'}, host_config={'Links': ['piwik_db_1:db', 'piwik_db_1:db_1', 'piwik_db_1:piwik_db_1'], 'PortBindings': {}, 'Binds': [u'/home/user/piwik/revaliases:/etc/ssmtp/revaliases:rw', u'/home/user/piwik/config:/var/www/html/config:rw', u'/home/user/piwik/ssmtp.conf:/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf:rw', u'/var/lib/docker/volumes/54d4a1e73025e4efbdb7ad7662a602fec2c2d647ae88695481a9736f92f5b0c2/_data:/var/www/html:rw'], 'ExtraHosts': [], 'LogConfig': {'Type': u'json-file', 'Config': {}}, 'VolumesFrom': []}, environment={u'affinity:container': u'=05a82032a59fcea55b77390901cbb9a60eae60edfa5fa493e4a41a58349f9b8c'}, volumes={u'/etc/ssmtp/revaliases': {}, u'/var/www/html/config': {}, u'/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf': {}}, detach=True)
docker create_container -> {u'Id': u'18cdc44c64f0cb79c5c8202a325dc95e382baedbf3cf2c975ca5bd84ba9c7cec',
 u'Warnings': None}
docker inspect_container <- (u'18cdc44c64f0cb79c5c8202a325dc95e382baedbf3cf2c975ca5bd84ba9c7cec')
docker inspect_container -> {u'AppArmorProfile': u'',
 u'Args': [u'php-fpm'],
 u'Config': {u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'php-fpm'],
             u'CpuShares': 0,
             u'Cpuset': u'',
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'/entrypoint.sh'],
...
docker start <- (u'18cdc44c64f0cb79c5c8202a325dc95e382baedbf3cf2c975ca5bd84ba9c7cec')
Cannot start container 18cdc44c64f0cb79c5c8202a325dc95e382baedbf3cf2c975ca5bd84ba9c7cec: [8] System error: not a directory

I can't identify if the error is related to this setup or to the piwik container. I can enter the app container and execute 'php-fpm' with no error, btw. - no idea, WHAT is not a directory.

Docker version: 1.8.2 docker-compose version: 1.3.3

[keltik85]

See this issue https://github.com/indiehosters/piwik/issues/4 , I also solved your exact same problem by creating the files manually. This should be in the wiki or How to use this image section.

[Treverix]

Thanks! #4 was closed so I didn't recognise it :)

For a quick start, create three empty files:

touch config
touch ssmtp.conf
touch revaliases

This eliminates the error. If the files don't exist, docker-compose up will create three empty folder with the very same name. So if you already have them, delete them.

[pierreozoux]

Hi! Is your issue solved?

[motin]

Same issue, but it is not solved by the above advice. Correction: config should be a directory.

Proper README contents could read:

git clone https://github.com/indiehosters/piwik.git
cd piwik
mkdir config
touch ssmtp.conf
touch revaliases
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=fooroot docker-compose --verbose up

However, this merely solves this particular issue and allows docker-compose up to finish, but does not result in a working piwik installation, since the config directory needs to be filled with the piwik default config files.

[danielgratzl]

Same problem here. Creating the files and directories manually does not solve the issue. Host System is OSX

dagbook:piwik dag$ docker-compose up
Creating piwik_db_1
Creating piwik_app_1

ERROR: for app  rpc error: code = 2 desc = "oci runtime error: could not synchronise with container process: not a directory"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 63, in main
AttributeError: 'ProjectError' object has no attribute 'msg'
docker-compose returned -1
dagbook:piwik dag$ docker-compose --verbose up
compose.config.config.find: Using configuration files: ./docker-compose.yml
docker.auth.auth.load_config: File doesn't exist
compose.cli.command.get_client: docker-compose version 1.7.1, build 0a9ab35
docker-py version: 1.8.1
CPython version: 2.7.9
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1j 15 Oct 2014
compose.cli.command.get_client: Docker base_url: https://192.168.99.101:2376
compose.cli.command.get_client: Docker version: KernelVersion=4.4.12-boot2docker, Os=linux, BuildTime=2016-06-01T21:20:08.558909126+00:00, ApiVersion=1.23, Version=1.11.2, GitCommit=b9f10c9, Arch=amd64, GoVersion=go1.5.4
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers <- (all=False, filters={u'label': [u'com.docker.compose.project=piwik', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff=False']})
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers -> (list with 1 items)
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container <- (u'9a31ad6dbb441f76496d7d8fb979dd67aabee4e0b2ae962b0a791d0bc40d7470')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container -> {u'AppArmorProfile': u'',
 u'Args': [u'mysqld'],
 u'Config': {u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'mysqld'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'docker-entrypoint.sh'],
             u'Env': [u'MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret',
                      u'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin',
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers <- (all=True, filters={u'label': [u'com.docker.compose.project=piwik', u'com.docker.compose.service=db', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff=False']})
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers -> (list with 1 items)
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container <- (u'9a31ad6dbb441f76496d7d8fb979dd67aabee4e0b2ae962b0a791d0bc40d7470')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container -> {u'AppArmorProfile': u'',
 u'Args': [u'mysqld'],
 u'Config': {u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'mysqld'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'docker-entrypoint.sh'],
             u'Env': [u'MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret',
                      u'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin',
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers <- (all=True, filters={u'label': [u'com.docker.compose.project=piwik', u'com.docker.compose.service=app', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff=False']})
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers -> (list with 1 items)
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container <- (u'2edb43b25caf2b03d907f48d035c4e500602540722ad135ba32d079122f19e1c')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container -> {u'AppArmorProfile': u'',
 u'Args': [u'php-fpm'],
 u'Config': {u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'php-fpm'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'/entrypoint.sh'],
             u'Env': [u'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin',
                      u'PHPIZE_DEPS=autoconf \t\tfile \t\tg++ \t\tgcc \t\tlibc-dev \t\tmake \t\tpkg-config \t\tre2c',
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers <- (all=True, filters={u'label': [u'com.docker.compose.project=piwik', u'com.docker.compose.service=web', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff=False']})
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers -> (list with 0 items)
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image <- ('mysql')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image -> {u'Architecture': u'amd64',
 u'Author': u'',
 u'Comment': u'',
 u'Config': {u'ArgsEscaped': True,
             u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'mysqld'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'docker-entrypoint.sh'],
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image <- ('piwik')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image -> {u'Architecture': u'amd64',
 u'Author': u'pierre@piwik.org',
 u'Comment': u'',
 u'Config': {u'ArgsEscaped': True,
             u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'php-fpm'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'/entrypoint.sh'],
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image <- ('nginx')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image -> {u'Architecture': u'amd64',
 u'Author': u'NGINX Docker Maintainers "docker-maint@nginx.com"',
 u'Comment': u'',
 u'Config': {u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'nginx', u'-g', u'daemon off;'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': None,
             u'Env': [u'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin',
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers <- (all=True, filters={u'label': [u'com.docker.compose.project=piwik', u'com.docker.compose.service=db', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff=False']})
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers -> (list with 1 items)
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image <- ('mysql')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image -> {u'Architecture': u'amd64',
 u'Author': u'',
 u'Comment': u'',
 u'Config': {u'ArgsEscaped': True,
             u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'mysqld'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'docker-entrypoint.sh'],
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container <- (u'9a31ad6dbb441f76496d7d8fb979dd67aabee4e0b2ae962b0a791d0bc40d7470')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container -> {u'AppArmorProfile': u'',
 u'Args': [u'mysqld'],
 u'Config': {u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'mysqld'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'docker-entrypoint.sh'],
             u'Env': [u'MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret',
                      u'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin',
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers <- (all=True, filters={u'label': [u'com.docker.compose.project=piwik', u'com.docker.compose.service=app', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff=False']})
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers -> (list with 1 items)
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image <- ('piwik')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_image -> {u'Architecture': u'amd64',
 u'Author': u'pierre@piwik.org',
 u'Comment': u'',
 u'Config': {u'ArgsEscaped': True,
             u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'php-fpm'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'/entrypoint.sh'],
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container <- (u'2edb43b25caf2b03d907f48d035c4e500602540722ad135ba32d079122f19e1c')
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker inspect_container -> {u'AppArmorProfile': u'',
 u'Args': [u'php-fpm'],
 u'Config': {u'AttachStderr': False,
             u'AttachStdin': False,
             u'AttachStdout': False,
             u'Cmd': [u'php-fpm'],
             u'Domainname': u'',
             u'Entrypoint': [u'/entrypoint.sh'],
             u'Env': [u'PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin',
                      u'PHPIZE_DEPS=autoconf \t\tfile \t\tg++ \t\tgcc \t\tlibc-dev \t\tmake \t\tpkg-config \t\tre2c',
...
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers <- (all=True, filters={u'label': [u'com.docker.compose.project=piwik', u'com.docker.compose.service=web', u'com.docker.compose.oneoff=False']})
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker containers -> (list with 0 items)
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: db>, <Service: web>, <Service: app>])
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Starting producer thread for <Service: db>
compose.service.execute_convergence_plan: piwik_db_1 is up-to-date
compose.parallel.parallel_execute_iter: Finished processing: <Service: db>
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: app>, <Service: web>])
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Starting producer thread for <Service: app>
compose.service.start_container_if_stopped: Starting piwik_app_1
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker attach <- (u'2edb43b25caf2b03d907f48d035c4e500602540722ad135ba32d079122f19e1c', stderr=True, stream=True, stdout=True)
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker attach -> <generator object _multiplexed_response_stream_helper at 0x1044fa140>
compose.cli.verbose_proxy.proxy_callable: docker start <- (u'2edb43b25caf2b03d907f48d035c4e500602540722ad135ba32d079122f19e1c')
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: web>])
compose.parallel.parallel_execute_iter: Failed: <Service: app>
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([<Service: web>])
compose.parallel.feed_queue: <Service: web> has upstream errors - not processing
compose.parallel.parallel_execute_iter: Failed: <Service: web>
compose.parallel.feed_queue: Pending: set([])

ERROR: for app  rpc error: code = 2 desc = "oci runtime error: could not synchronise with container process: not a directory"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 63, in main
AttributeError: 'ProjectError' object has no attribute 'msg'
docker-compose returned -1

[JulianCataldo]

Cannot use it here neither on Ubuntu and latest Engine/Compose.

I get :

Creating piwik_db_1
Creating piwik_app_1

ERROR: for app  Cannot start service app: oci runtime error: rootfs_linux.go:53: mounting "/var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/xxxxx/etc/ssmtp/revaliases" to rootfs "/var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/xxxxx" caused "not a directory"

Pre-creating files/folders doesn't address it.

[trickortweak]

Before running docker compose, make sure that the 'config' directory is created, the 'revaliases' file is created with appropriate configuration, and the 'ssmtp.conf' file is created with appropriate configuration. When I did this, it worked for me.

Docker Compose will create these volume references as directories. Since it's mounting them as files, the above referenced failure will occur since it's mounting a directory as a file in the container.

[pierreozoux]

Ok, I did some work to make it easier.

Can you pull the latest version of here and confirm this is working for you? If not, please fell free to reopen :)

Thanks!