# FATAL: the database system is starting up

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/fatal-the-database-system-is-starting-up/52806
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 11, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fatal-the-database-system-is-starting-up/52806 "2016-11-11T18:23:37Z")
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### Author: ![zsero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zsero/32/64016_2.png) [@zsero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zsero)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fatal-the-database-system-is-starting-up/52806/3 "2016-11-14T16:05:44Z")

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I _think_ the problem might be that my host is using devicemapper. However I found this thread and this Github commit linked from it:

> [@Launcher rebuild breaks because the database system is starting up](https://meta.discourse.org/t/launcher-rebuild-breaks-because-the-database-system-is-starting-up/29355/11):
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> @sam is adding better protection for this in the bootstrap step – we really can’t proceed if the filesystem is not one that is known to be compatible with Docker. Too many support issues..

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse\_docker/commit/48f22d14f39496c8df446cbc65ee04b258c5a1a0](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/commit/48f22d14f39496c8df446cbc65ee04b258c5a1a0)

Yet, on my system it is not working, I get no warning or error at all from launcher.

Here is my `docker info 2> /dev/null | grep 'Driver: '`:

```plaintext
Storage Driver: devicemapper
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs

```

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