error mounting "/opt/docker-compose/couchdb/local.ini"

[stormyark]

This is my docker-compose.yml

services:
  couchdb:
    image: couchdb:latest
    container_name: couchdb
    environment:
      - COUCHDB_USER=username
      - COUCHDB_PASSWORD=password
    volumes:
      - ./data:/opt/couchdb/data
      - ./local.ini:/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini
    ports:
      - 5984:5984
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - internet

networks:
  internet:
    external: true

root@stormy /opt/docker-compose/couchdb # docker compose up -d [+] Running 0/1 ⠸ Container couchdb Starting 0.3s Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting "/opt/docker-compose/couchdb/local.ini" to rootfs at "/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini": mount /opt/docker-compose/couchdb/local.ini:/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini (via /proc/self/fd/6), flags: 0x5000: not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

[vrtmrz]

Thank you for opening the issue! Possibly, expanding the relative path to the absolute path helps this problem.
Would you mind if I ask you to try so?

[stormyark]

Thank you for answering! I am trying to fix it since two week, so I am very glad you answered me :D

Do you mean by absolute path the full path?

services:
  couchdb:
    image: couchdb:latest
    container_name: couchdb
    #user: 1000:1000
    environment:
      - COUCHDB_USER=username
      - COUCHDB_PASSWORD=password
    volumes:
      - /opt/docker-compose/couchdb/data:/opt/docker-compose/couchdb/data
      - /opt/docker-compose/couchdb/local.ini:/opt/docker-compose/couchdb/local.ini
    # Ports not needed when already passed to Traefik
    ports:
      - 5984:5984
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - intranet

networks:
  intranet:
    external: true

I am still getting an error but a different

couchdb  |
couchdb  | [error] 2024-07-02T09:12:56.842198Z nonode@nohost emulator -------- Error in process <0.980.0> with exit value:
couchdb  | {database_does_not_exist,[{mem3_shards,load_shards_from_db,[<<"_users">>],[{file,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,430}]},{mem3_shards,load_shards_from_disk,1,[{file,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,405}]},{mem3_shards,load_shards_from_disk,2,[{file,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,434}]},{mem3_shards,for_docid,3,[{file,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,100}]},{fabric_doc_open,go,3,[{file,"src/fabric_doc_open.erl"},{line,39}]},{chttpd_auth_cache,ensure_auth_ddoc_exists,2,[{file,"src/chttpd_auth_cache.erl"},{line,214}]},{chttpd_auth_cache,listen_for_changes,1,[{file,"src/chttpd_auth_cache.erl"},{line,160}]}]}

[rhld16]

The couchdb container image uses /opt/couchdb/data as a working directory NOT /opt/docker-compose/couchdb. So the directory after the semi-colon should be so. Correct example:

volumes:
      - /opt/docker-compose/couchdb/data:/opt/couchdb/data
      - /opt/docker-compose/couchdb/local.ini:/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini

[ben-ba]

read the errors:

Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type