Can't delete stack if compose.yml has some error in it

[Nostang3]

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Description

I started to create a stack but decided I didn't want it so I tried to delete it. Never deployed it. It wouldn't let me because it looks like it tries to validate the text before allowing me to delete it. It still had some <insert/path/here:/path/to/folder> entries.

👟 Reproduction steps

1. Paste in some default compose

services:
  tinymediamanager:
    image: tinymediamanager/tinymediamanager:latest
    container_name: tinymediamanager
    environment:
      - USER_ID=1000
      - GROUP_ID=100
      - ALLOW_DIRECT_VNC=true
      - LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 # force UTF8
      - LANG=en_US.UTF-8   # force UTF8
      - PASSWORD=<password>
    volumes:
      - </path/to/local/data/>:/data
      - </path/to/movies>:/media/movies
      - </path/to/addons/>:/media/tv_shows
    ports:
      - 5900:5900 # VNC port
      - 4000:4000 # Webinterface
    restart: unless-stopped

2. Save.
3. Attempt to delete.

👀 Expected behavior

Would like to delete the file without having to check if the compose is valid. If I don't want to the stack it shouldn't need to be valid unless I'm missing something.

😓 Actual Behavior

Fails to delete with error.

Dockge Version

1.4.2

💻 Operating System and Arch

Trunas Custom App

🌐 Browser

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

🐋 Docker Version

No response

🟩 NodeJS Version

No response

📝 Relevant log output

service "tinymediamanager" refers to undefined volume </path/to/local/data/>: invalid compose project

[paidlowered]

Same issue here. "validating /opt/stacks/aio/compose.yaml: services.nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer.environment.0 must be a string"

Stacks don't appear in Portainer, what gives?

[DomiiBunn]

As a simple solution.

Remove the stacks folder

[paidlowered]

You can also just replace the compose.yaml with a working one and then delete the stack. Still, it would be nice to be able to delete a “stack” with no compose.yaml and .env or one that doesn’t work.

[DomiiBunn]

@christmaswreath I agree.

Though this can cause an issue of hanging containers.

[F1zzyD]

Yep, having this issue as well. Can't delete it, change it, or anything if Dockage gets confused. It says it's maintaining it and inactive, but for some reason has no control over a stopped or ended container...

[jsox79]

can confirm this is still an issue

[paidlowered]

can confirm this is still an issue

fixed this by switching the compose file with the immich one (or any working one for that matter) and deleting the stack

for example:

services:
  mumble-server:
    image: mumblevoip/mumble-server:latest
    container_name: mumble-server
    hostname: mumble-server
    restart: on-failure
    ports:
      - 64738:64738
      - 64738:64738/udp
      - 6502:6502
    environment:
      - MUMBLE_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=rsa3^zy9^ygmt43^VRD6F$ # not real password used anywhere
networks: {}

[thegitslayer]

I still have this issue on latest docker version of louislam/dockge

Either with an incorrect compose

2025-11-02T01:08:19Z [GETSERVICESTATUSLIST] ERROR: Error: Process exited with code 1
    at ChildProcess.done (/app/node_modules/promisify-child-process/index.cjs:70:19)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1101:16)
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5) {
  code: 1,
  signal: null,
  stdout: '',
  stderr: 'time="2025-11-02T01:08:19Z" level=warning msg="The \\"KOMODO_DB_USERNAME\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."\n' +
    'time="2025-11-02T01:08:19Z" level=warning msg="The \\"KOMODO_DB_PASSWORD\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."\n' +
    'time="2025-11-02T01:08:19Z" level=warning msg="The \\"KOMODO_DB_USERNAME\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."\n' +
    'time="2025-11-02T01:08:19Z" level=warning msg="The \\"KOMODO_DB_PASSWORD\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."\n' +
    'time="2025-11-02T01:08:19Z" level=warning msg="The \\"COMPOSE_KOMODO_BACKUPS_PATH\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."\n' +
    'time="2025-11-02T01:08:19Z" level=warning msg="The \\"KOMODO_DB_USERNAME\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."\n' +
    'time="2025-11-02T01:08:19Z" level=warning msg="The \\"KOMODO_DB_PASSWORD\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."\n' +
    'invalid spec: :/backups: empty section between colons\n'

or an empty one

2025-11-02T22:51:33Z [GETSERVICESTATUSLIST] ERROR: Error: Process exited with code 1
    at ChildProcess.done (/app/node_modules/promisify-child-process/index.cjs:70:19)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1101:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (node:internal/child_process:456:11)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at Pipe.<anonymous> (node:net:351:12) {
  code: 1,
  signal: null,
  stdout: '',
  stderr: 'empty compose file\n'

[paidlowered]

You could probably just make it so that the docker compose changes to a correct one and then deletes if there's an issue.