Polis: Report container failing to build

[metasoarous]

_Originally posted by @micahstubbs in https://github.com/pol-is/polis/issues/734#issuecomment-760004126_

made it this far, will add this comment as a bookmark for my repro efforts:

git clone [email protected]:pol-is/polis.git
cd polis 
docker-compose up --detach

Then I see:

Skipping 'fsevents' build as platform linux is not supported
npm WARN lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: cannot run in wd [email protected] npm run build (wd=/app)
added 1034 packages in 24.201s
ERROR: Service 'client-report' failed to build : sync /var/lib/docker/image/overlay2/layerdb/tmp/write-set-966991775/diff: input/output err

[metasoarous]

Hey @micahstubbs. Thanks for trying this out.

I'm not sure why the client-report isn't building for you. I just recloned and ran from scratch and couldn't reproduce. I'm also on Linux, FWIW, and the fsevents thing should be optional.

Would you please check a few things for us?

• Was anything else printed out leading up to this?
• Is there any logging in that /var/lib/docker/image/... file?
• Have you tried running a second time? Same error?
• Are you able to run npm run build from within the client-report directory (sans docker)?
• What happens if you try running docker-compose up --scale polis-client-report=0?

Thanks again!

[patcon]

Also, docker and docker-compose versions?

[patcon]

Thinking this might address it btw: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/1396#issuecomment-284471057

[metasoarous]

Thanks @patcon.

I'm not sure if that's the same issue, but could be worth trying if nothing else works.

[patcon]

Heh yeah, def the "have you tried turning it on and then off again" of overlayFS 🤞

[metasoarous]

FWIW, this issue seems to have been that @micahstubbs didn't have enough hard drive space for the images to build. This is similar to the error @colinmegill had getting the docker setup to work on his smaller machine.

Thanks folks!

[patcon]

Yeah, these images get big when rebuilding often. A makefile with some helpers would make this simpler. Found an even better one to steal from:
https://github.com/bitspossessed/culturestake-provisioning/blob/master/Makefile