# 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")\
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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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