external volume of /bitcoin don't seem to work?

[hypergig]

talisker:~ jordan$ docker run -v /Users/jordan/blockchains/bitcoin:/bitcoin --name=bitcoind-node3 -p 8333:8333 -p 127.0.0.1:8332:8332    kylemanna/bitcoind
+ btc_init
+ '[' '!' -e /bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf ']'
+ mkdir -p /bitcoin/.bitcoin
+ echo 'Creating bitcoin.conf'
+ cat
Creating bitcoin.conf
+ cat /bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
disablewallet=1
printtoconsole=1
rpcuser=bitcoinrpc
rpcpassword=dd if=/dev/urandom bs=33 count=1 status=none | base64
Initialization completed successfully
+ echo 'Initialization completed successfully'
+ '[' 0 -gt 0 ']'
+ args=("-rpcallowip=::/0")
+ exec bitcoind -rpcallowip=::/0
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2016-08-17 10:51:57 Bitcoin version v0.12.1.0-g9779e1e (Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:01:43 +0200)
2016-08-17 10:51:57 InitParameterInteraction: parameter interaction: -whitelistforcerelay=1 -> setting -whitelistrelay=1
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Using BerkeleyDB version Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April  9, 2010)
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Default data directory /bitcoin/.bitcoin
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Using data directory /bitcoin/.bitcoin
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Using config file /bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Using at most 125 connections (1048576 file descriptors available)
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Using 8 threads for script verification
2016-08-17 10:51:57 scheduler thread start
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Binding RPC on address 0.0.0.0 port 8332 failed.
2016-08-17 10:51:57 HTTP: creating work queue of depth 16
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Config options rpcuser and rpcpassword will soon be deprecated. Locally-run instances may remove rpcuser to use cookie-based auth, or may be replaced with rpcauth. Please see share/rpcuser for rpcauth auth generation.
2016-08-17 10:51:57 HTTP: starting 4 worker threads
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Bound to [::]:8333
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Bound to 0.0.0.0:8333
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Cache configuration:
2016-08-17 10:51:57 * Using 2.0MiB for block index database
2016-08-17 10:51:57 * Using 32.5MiB for chain state database
2016-08-17 10:51:57 * Using 65.5MiB for in-memory UTXO set
2016-08-17 10:51:57 init message: Loading block index...
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Opening LevelDB in /bitcoin/.bitcoin/blocks/index
2016-08-17 10:51:57 IO error: /bitcoin/.bitcoin/blocks/index: Invalid argument
2016-08-17 10:51:57 : Error opening block database.

Do you want to rebuild the block database now?
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Aborted block database rebuild. Exiting.
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Shutdown: In progress...
2016-08-17 10:51:57 scheduler thread interrupt
: Error opening block database.

Do you want to rebuild the block database now?
2016-08-17 10:51:57 StopNode()
2016-08-17 10:51:57 Shutdown: done
talisker:~ jordan$ 

It does seem to do some stuff though..

talisker:blockchains jordan$ 
talisker:blockchains jordan$ pwd
/Users/jordan/blockchains
talisker:blockchains jordan$ 
talisker:blockchains jordan$ tree -a bitcoin/
bitcoin/
└── .bitcoin
    ├── .lock
    ├── bitcoin.conf
    ├── blocks
    │   └── index
    │       ├── 000003.log
    │       ├── CURRENT
    │       ├── LOCK
    │       ├── LOG
    │       └── MANIFEST-000001
    └── debug.log

3 directories, 8 files
talisker:blockchains jordan$ 

I can confirm that using a docker volume (as per the instructions) does work. Wonder why it flips out with external volumes? I have plenty of disk, cpu, mem availible.

[hypergig]

Looks related

boot2docker/boot2docker#794

[hypergig]

works with docker for mac (removing vbox from the picture)
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/

This is totally a vbox issue.

[kylemanna]

Thanks for the update. Will close unless something is actionable here.