Get the following error, while trying docker instructions from https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-for-development-using-docker/102009 . $ d/boot_dev --init; Using source in: /local/discourse Using data in: /local/discourse/data/postgres release: Pulling from discourse/discourse_dev Dig…

I am also encountering this issue. In my case, it appears to be due to my use of rootless Docker and the container not having write permissions to the mounted src directory. I have been unable to find a workaround at this time. My user is running the container as expected (UID 1000), but inside the…

There was an error while trying to write to `/src/Gemfile.lock`. It is likely that you need to grant write permissions for that path

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Editor0732 May 22, 2025, 9:51pm 4

enter discourse_dev docker

cd src
chmod 777 Gemfile.lock

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There was an error while trying to write to `/src/Gemfile.lock`. It is likely that you need to grant write permissions for that path

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