Postgres container fails to launch

[mboisvertdupras]

Info:

• Docker version ($ docker --version): 17.03.1-ce, build c6d412e
• Laradock commit ($ git rev-parse HEAD): 0e0dc44
• System info (Mac, PC, Linux): MacOS
• System info disto/version: 10.12.4

Issue:

What seems to be going wrong?

With a fresh copy of laradock, the postgres container fails to launch.

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Expected behavior:

What should be happening instead?

Self-explanatory

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Reproduce:

How might we be able to reproduce the error?

docker-compose up -d postgres

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Relevant Code:

Console output:

The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
2017-05-08T16:31:05.846593429Z 
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
2017-05-08T16:31:05.846867875Z 
Data page checksums are disabled.
2017-05-08T16:31:05.846872770Z 
initdb: directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" or run initdb
with an argument other than "/var/lib/postgresql/data".

[FMate]

I have a same problem. My solution was add to docker-compose.yml file - PGDATA=/tmp in postgres container.

Like this:
`### PostgreSQL Container ####################################

postgres:
  build: ./postgres
  volumes:
    - ${DATA_SAVE_PATH}/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  ports:
    - "${POSTGRES_PORT}:5432"
  environment:
    - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB}
    - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER}
    - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
    - PGDATA=/tmp
  networks:
    - backend`

[rlindner81]

Can confirm, I had this bug and the suggested addition fixes it

[yblondeau]

I had the same issue also and the suggested edit to the docker-compose.yml file fixed it.

Info:

• Docker version ($ docker --version): 17.09.0-ce, build afdb6d4
• Laradock commit ($ git rev-parse HEAD): 9877f0453ef5d1c8f556403804f8f21df2618de6
• System info (Mac, PC, Linux): Windows
• System info disto/version: 10 Pro

[dmz9]

helped - PGDATA=/tmp

[mhaagens]

Setting PGDATA=/tmp worked for me as well!

[SalahAdDin]

@FMate Thank you very much man.

But, does it affect the our database persistence?

[eloyekunle]

I think it will affect the database persistence since everything is lost on reboot.

[abhijitgujar86]

Thanks @FMate but @eloyekunle and @SalahAdDin is right the data is not persistent on reboot everything is lost. does any one know better solution.

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