# Data directory "/shared/postgres\_data" has group or world access
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [August 10, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468 "2016-08-10T18:28:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Dan\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dan_G)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468/1 "2016-08-10T18:28:55Z")
When I try to `./laucher bootstrap app` discourse it fetches the docker image from the registry and quickly fails afer on
```
LOG: skipping missing configuration file "/shared/postgres_data/postgresql.auto.conf"
2016-08-10 18:21:43 UTC [53-2] FATAL: data directory "/shared/postgres_data" has group or world access
2016-08-10 18:21:43 UTC [53-3] DETAIL: Permissions should be u=rwx (0700).
```
My volume configuration is as such:
```
## The Docker container is stateless; all data is stored in /shared
volumes:
- volume:
host: /data/discourse/shared/standalone
guest: /shared
- volume:
host: /data/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log
guest: /var/log
```
/data is a partition on a second disk (formatted as ext4) but that never proved to be an issue with docker for me before, I run my private docker registry the same way. `/data/discourse` doesn’t exist prior to `./launcher bootstrap app`, it is created by by the launcher so I presume it could give it the permissions it wants.
And here’s my `docker info`:
```
docker info
Containers: 0
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 0
Images: 1
Server Version: 1.12.0
Storage Driver: aufs
Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Dirs: 8
Dirperm1 Supported: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: overlay host bridge null
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Security Options:
Kernel Version: 3.16.0-4-amd64
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 2
Total Memory: 3.865 GiB
Name: ICL2-LVCORPO-11
ID: TZE6:YZCD:3EFK:IKLN:5RVI:BGA4:M3GS:4CI2:P3TW:TFZY:J2IY:CDFT
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
WARNING: No memory limit support
WARNING: No swap limit support
WARNING: No kernel memory limit support
WARNING: No oom kill disable support
WARNING: No cpu cfs quota support
WARNING: No cpu cfs period support
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8
```
Any clue?
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### Author:  [@gkln](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gkln)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468/2 "2016-08-10T22:43:33Z")
What is your `LANG` setting?
The last time I got this error was because I used something other than `LANG: en_US.UTF-8`.
See:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-upgrade-to-latest-version-psql-9-3-to-9-5/47375](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-upgrade-to-latest-version-psql-9-3-to-9-5/47375)
---
### Author:  [@Dan\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dan_G)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468/3 "2016-08-11T00:55:24Z")
> [@gkln](#):
>
> The last time I got this error was because I used something other than LANG: en\_US.UTF-8.
fr\_FR.UTF-8
I changed it so the initial welcome and everything would be in French.
I see from your linked topic that I only have to set `DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: fr`. Maybe LANG shouldn’t be configurable if it’s unnecessary and broken.
I’ll try to make the fix first thing in the morning when I get to the office.
Thanks a lot!
---
### Author:  [@Hotfirenet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hotfirenet)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468/4 "2016-08-29T13:49:16Z")
I have the same problem, you reset the LANG variable in the app.yml file with this value: en\_US.UTF-8.
I have recompile the locales inside the docker contenainer but that’s not work.
J’ai le même problème, qui se resout en remettant dans le fichier app.yml la valeur
en\_US.UTF-8 pour la variable LANG.
j’ai pourtant reconfigurer les locales du conteneur docker mais j’ai eu la même erreur
Bizarre que l’on ne puisse pas compiler en français
Is it OK @zogstrip ?
---
### Author:  [@hvaleanu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hvaleanu)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468/5 "2017-04-18T09:44:09Z")
Hey guys, hope you can help me as I am stuck…
I have the same problem, but I have never modified the LANG variable.
Recently upgraded to beta10, all seemed to work, but trying to install the babble plugin, and then I have this error when trying to rebuild:
```
cd /pups && git pull && /pups/bin/pups --stdin
Already up-to-date.
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.558079 #13] INFO -- : Loading --stdin
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.563428 #13] INFO -- : > mkdir -p /shared/postgres_run
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.566192 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.566713 #13] INFO -- : > chown postgres:postgres /shared/postgres_run
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.568389 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.568780 #13] INFO -- : > chmod 775 /shared/postgres_run
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.569973 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.570292 #13] INFO -- : > rm -fr /var/run/postgresql
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.571553 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.571868 #13] INFO -- : > ln -s /shared/postgres_run /var/run/postgresql
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.573027 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.573329 #13] INFO -- : > socat /dev/null UNIX-CONNECT:/shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432 || exit 0 && echo postgres already running stop container ; exit 1
2017/04/18 09:37:50 socat[21] E connect(6, AF=1 "/shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432", 36): No such file or directory
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.577462 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.577738 #13] INFO -- : > rm -fr /shared/postgres_run/.s*
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.579469 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.579732 #13] INFO -- : > rm -fr /shared/postgres_run/*.pid
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.581248 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.581514 #13] INFO -- : > mkdir -p /shared/postgres_run/9.5-main.pg_stat_tmp
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.582744 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.583072 #13] INFO -- : > chown postgres:postgres /shared/postgres_run/9.5-main.pg_stat_tmp
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.584369 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.586947 #13] INFO -- : File > /etc/service/postgres/run chmod: +x
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.589453 #13] INFO -- : File > /etc/runit/3.d/99-postgres chmod: +x
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.591778 #13] INFO -- : File > /root/upgrade_postgres chmod: +x
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.592182 #13] INFO -- : > chown -R root /var/lib/postgresql/9.5/main
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.597974 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.598349 #13] INFO -- : > [! -e /shared/postgres_data] && install -d -m 0755 -o postgres -g postgres /shared/postgres_data && sudo -E -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/bin/initdb -D /shared/postgres_data || exit 0
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.599840 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.599937 #13] INFO -- : > chown -R postgres:postgres /shared/postgres_data
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.607311 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.607762 #13] INFO -- : > chown -R postgres:postgres /var/run/postgresql
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.609445 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.609862 #13] INFO -- : > /root/upgrade_postgres
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.612924 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.613222 #13] INFO -- : > rm /root/upgrade_postgres
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.614448 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.614901 #13] INFO -- : Replacing data_directory = '/var/lib/postgresql/9.5/main' with data_directory = '/shared/postgres_data' in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.615836 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?listen_addresses *=.*) with listen_addresses = '*' in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.616302 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?synchronous_commit *=.*) with synchronous_commit = $db_synchronous_commit in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.616727 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?shared_buffers *=.*) with shared_buffers = $db_shared_buffers in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.617107 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?work_mem *=.*) with work_mem = $db_work_mem in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.617589 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?default_text_search_config *=.*) with default_text_search_config = '$db_default_text_search_config' in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.618044 #13] INFO -- : > install -d -m 0755 -o postgres -g postgres /shared/postgres_backup
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.620055 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.620479 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?max_wal_senders *=.*) with max_wal_senders = $db_max_wal_senders in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.620942 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?wal_level *=.*) with wal_level = $db_wal_level in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.621331 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?checkpoint_segments *=.*) with checkpoint_segments = $db_checkpoint_segments in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.621738 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?logging_collector *=.*) with logging_collector = $db_logging_collector in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.622114 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:#?log_min_duration_statement *=.*) with log_min_duration_statement = $db_log_min_duration_statement in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.622542 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:^#local +replication +postgres +peer$) with local replication postgres peer in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.622880 #13] INFO -- : Replacing (?-mix:^host.*all.*all.*127.*$) with host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.623205 #13] INFO -- : > HOME=/var/lib/postgresql USER=postgres exec chpst -u postgres:postgres:ssl-cert -U postgres:postgres:ssl-cert /usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/bin/postmaster -D /etc/postgresql/9.5/main
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:50.624160 #13] INFO -- : > sleep 5
2017-04-18 09:37:50 UTC [42-1] FATAL: data directory "/shared/postgres_data" has group or world access
2017-04-18 09:37:50 UTC [42-2] DETAIL: Permissions should be u=rwx (0700).
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.628964 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.629678 #13] INFO -- : > su postgres -c 'createdb discourse' || true
createdb: could not connect to database template1: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.693427 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.693982 #13] INFO -- : > su postgres -c 'psql discourse -c "create user discourse;"' || true
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.764180 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.764816 #13] INFO -- : > su postgres -c 'psql discourse -c "grant all privileges on database discourse to discourse;"' || true
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.831153 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.831718 #13] INFO -- : > su postgres -c 'psql discourse -c "alter schema public owner to discourse;"'
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.900120 #13] INFO -- :
I, [2017-04-18T09:37:55.900896 #13] INFO -- : Terminating async processes
FAILED
--------------------
Pups::ExecError: su postgres -c 'psql discourse -c "alter schema public owner to discourse;"' failed with return #
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:108:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params "su postgres -c 'psql $db_name -c \"alter schema public owner to $db_user;\"'"
07126760455e9058c145e69358c01234e7c54a84ba20857afa4efda7111bf471
**FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one
```
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-directory-shared-postgres-data-has-group-or-world-access/48468/6 "2024-06-08T12:44:49Z")
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