# Bootstrap Error
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-error/317675
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [July 22, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-error/317675 "2024-07-22T19:21:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@iluvjoshallen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iluvjoshallen)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-error/317675/1 "2024-07-22T19:21:15Z")
Hi. I’m receiving this error after attempting to start Discourse:
`docker: failed to create the container ID file: open cids/app_bootstrap.cid: no such file or directory`
I’ve already done my research on the top and cannot find the problem.
Full Logs:
```plaintext
root@vmware:/var/discourse# ./launcher rebuild app
x86_64 arch detected.
Ensuring launcher is up to date
Fetching origin
Launcher is up-to-date
2.0.20240708-0023: Pulling from discourse/base
Digest: sha256:025e9c1f6848c4726544c6ae873d710c62f547b72afb7f537aaa44eb5377cb5c
Status: Image is up to date for discourse/base:2.0.20240708-0023
docker.io/discourse/base:2.0.20240708-0023
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/pups-1.2.1/lib/pups.rb
/usr/local/bin/pups --stdin
docker: failed to create the container ID file: open cids/app_bootstrap.cid: no such file or directory.
See 'docker run --help'.
cat: cids/app_bootstrap.cid: No such file or directory
bootstrap failed with exit code 127
**FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.
Container name cannot be empty
```
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-error/317675/2 "2024-07-22T19:29:51Z")
Strange. Does docker work?
```
docker run hello-world
```
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### Author:  [@iluvjoshallen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iluvjoshallen)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-error/317675/3 "2024-07-22T19:31:54Z")
Yes. It appears that Docker is running normally and works.
```plaintext
Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub.
(amd64)
3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the
executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it
to your terminal.
```
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### Author:  [@iluvjoshallen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iluvjoshallen)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-error/317675/4 "2024-07-22T22:05:49Z")
I’ve seemed to fix this issue. I must have been using a outdated version of Docker!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bootstrap-error/317675/5 "2024-08-21T22:06:36Z")
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