# FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP on setup

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-on-setup/174975>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 4, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-on-setup/174975 "2021-01-04T16:08:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-on-setup/174975/8 "2021-01-06T05:18:16Z")

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You can try spinning up a new vm and /or running a trivial docker program. They have some hello world kind of thing. You can see if docker works at all.

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