After upgrade, docker: local_discourse/app is not a valid mac address

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After an upgrade by:

git pull
./launcher rebuild app

The service is not starting even by a ./launcher start app

I am getting an error related to mac-address and there is no mac address on the command line:

#  ./launcher start app
x86_64 arch detected.

+ /data/docker-discourse/docker run --shm-size=512m -d --restart=always -h myhost-app -e DOCKER_HOST_IP=172.17.0.1 --name app -t --mac-address local_discourse/app /sbin/boot
docker: local_discourse/app is not a valid mac address.
See 'docker run --help'.

How can I fix it?

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What is the hostname of your host?

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The hostname is myhost.

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Weird, that hostname should set a MAC of 02:e0:04:92:ec:9a.

Anyway, you can use ./launcher start app --skip-mac-address to skip it if you don’t want to debug it any further.

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I do not know why a MAC is not added.

I have run the ./launcher start app --skip-mac-address

No error but it seems that no port are listed so application is not accessible:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                            COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                                                                                                                                                          NAMES
7f269e451af9   local_discourse/app              "/sbin/boot"             28 seconds ago   Up 28 seconds                                                                                                                                                                  app
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Can you share your app.yml file (minus personal data/passwords)?

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Sure I have copied below the content of containers/app.yml after replacing some confidential information by xxxxx.

## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container template
##
## After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild
## /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app
##
## BE *VERY* CAREFUL WHEN EDITING!
## YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT!
## visit http://www.yamllint.com/ to validate this file as needed

templates:
  - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
  - "templates/redis.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
  #- "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
  #- "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"

## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose?
## If you want Discourse to share a port with another webserver like Apache or nginx,
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/17247 for details
expose:
  - "127.0.0.1:8009:80"   # http
#  - "443:443" # https

params:
  db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english"

  ## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total memory.
  ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected RAM, or you can override
  db_shared_buffers: "4096MB"

  ## can improve sorting performance, but adds memory usage per-connection
  #db_work_mem: "40MB"

  ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed)
  #version: tests-passed

env:
  LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  # DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: en

  ## How many concurrent web requests are supported? Depends on memory and CPU cores.
  ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected CPUs, or you can override
  UNICORN_WORKERS: 8

  ## TODO: The domain name this Discourse instance will respond to
  ## Required. Discourse will not work with a bare IP number.
  DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: discourse.xxxxxxxxx.xxx

  ## Uncomment if you want the container to be started with the same
  ## hostname (-h option) as specified above (default "$hostname-$config")
  #DOCKER_USE_HOSTNAME: true

  ## TODO: List of comma delimited emails that will be made admin and developer
  ## on initial signup example 'user1@example.com,user2@example.com'
  DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'contact@xxxxxxxxx.xxx'

  ## TODO: The SMTP mail server used to validate new accounts and send notifications
  # SMTP ADDRESS, username, and password are required
  # WARNING the char '#' in SMTP password can cause problems!
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: mail.xxxxxxxxx.xxx
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: contact@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: "xxxxxxxxxxxx"
  #DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true           # (optional, default true)

  ## If you added the Lets Encrypt template, uncomment below to get a free SSL certificate
  #LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: me@example.com

  ## The http or https CDN address for this Discourse instance (configured to pull)
  ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/14857 for details
  #DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: https://discourse-cdn.example.com

## The Docker container is stateless; all data is stored in /shared
volumes:
  - volume:
      host: /data/hosting/data-discourse
      guest: /shared
  - volume:
      host: /data/hosting/data-discourse/log/var-log
      guest: /var/log

## Plugins go here
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details
hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git

## Any custom commands to run after building
run:
  - exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands"
  ## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change:
  ## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once.
  #- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='info@unconfigured.discourse.org'"
  - exec: echo "End of custom commands"
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Can you try changing that to:

expose:
  - "8009:80"   # http

Are you running an extra reverse proxy on the host? In that case you may prefer to list to a unix socket by adding a web.socketed.template.yml in the template list at the top.

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I have changed the expose and rebuild but still the same issue.

I am running Haproxy as a reverse proxy to handle HTTPS connection to Discourse. It is running as-is for more than 2 years with already several upgrades.

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