Install Discourse for development using Docker

Anyone here using Fedora? This adds some more complexity, because Podman and SELinux are used for enhanced security. Podman is not really an issue I hope, it’s OCI compliant and having podman-docker installed, all Docker commands are translated to Podman commands. For SELinux I think I’ve found the proper fix as well, but still I run into an issue.

So while in the discourse directory, I run this command mkdir -vp data/postgres; sudo semanage fcontext -a -t svirt_sandbox_file_t "/home/user/discourse/data(/.*)?" && restorecon -rv . to apply an SELinux context label that I think is sufficient for this (at least, the SELinux errors are gone)

But I then still run into this error:

[user@fedora discourse]$ d/boot_dev --init
Emulate Docker CLI using podman. Create /etc/containers/nodocker to quiet msg.
Error: template: info:1:2: executing "info" at <.Architecture>: can't evaluate field Architecture in type *define.Info
WARNING: Docker architecture is not x86_64.
Discourse development is unlikely to work using Docker's architecture emulation.
Please try a native development installation.
Using source in: /home/user/discourse
Using data in:   /home/user/discourse/data/postgres
Emulate Docker CLI using podman. Create /etc/containers/nodocker to quiet msg.
✔ docker.io/discourse/discourse_dev:release
Trying to pull docker.io/discourse/discourse_dev:release...
Getting image source signatures
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Installing gems...
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Could not locate Gemfile

The systemd journal reports this:

Aug 09 18:47:45 fedora podman[19380]: 2022-08-09 18:47:45.841001786 +0200 CEST m=+0.137712533 image pull  discourse/discourse_dev:release
Aug 09 18:47:45 fedora podman[19380]: 
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora podman[19380]: 2022-08-09 18:47:46.043506861 +0200 CEST m=+0.340217585 container create 5282393e248e33800e235b4405c9a7197d10a3fc1d405450f1c99d2a5c7c85c7 (image=docker.io/discourse/discourse_dev:release, name=discourse_dev)
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora kernel: tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora systemd[1684]: selinux: avc:  op=load_policy lsm=selinux seqno=7 res=1
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora systemd[1684]: selinux: Regex version mismatch, expected: 10.39 2021-10-29 actual: 10.40 2022-04-14
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora systemd[1684]: selinux: Regex version mismatch, expected: 10.39 2021-10-29 actual: 10.40 2022-04-14
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora systemd[1684]: selinux: Regex version mismatch, expected: 10.39 2021-10-29 actual: 10.40 2022-04-14
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora systemd[1684]: Started libpod-conmon-5282393e248e33800e235b4405c9a7197d10a3fc1d405450f1c99d2a5c7c85c7.scope.
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora systemd[1684]: Started libpod-5282393e248e33800e235b4405c9a7197d10a3fc1d405450f1c99d2a5c7c85c7.scope - libcrun container.
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora chronyd[792]: Selected source 158.101.221.122 (2.fedora.pool.ntp.org)
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora podman[19380]: 2022-08-09 18:47:46.370028125 +0200 CEST m=+0.666738859 container init 5282393e248e33800e235b4405c9a7197d10a3fc1d405450f1c99d2a5c7c85c7 (image=docker.io/discourse/discourse_dev:release, name=discourse_dev)
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora podman[19380]: 2022-08-09 18:47:46.433863112 +0200 CEST m=+0.730573845 container start 5282393e248e33800e235b4405c9a7197d10a3fc1d405450f1c99d2a5c7c85c7 (image=docker.io/discourse/discourse_dev:release, name=discourse_dev)
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora discourse_dev[19420]: run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/00-fix-var-logs
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora discourse_dev[19420]: run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/anacron
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora discourse_dev[19420]: run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/cleanup-pids
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora discourse_dev[19420]: Cleaning stale PID files
Aug 09 18:47:46 fedora discourse_dev[19420]: run-parts: executing /etc/runit/1.d/ensure-database
Aug 09 18:47:47 fedora podman[19425]: 2022-08-09 18:47:47.698175757 +0200 CEST m=+1.211177315 container exec 5282393e248e33800e235b4405c9a7197d10a3fc1d405450f1c99d2a5c7c85c7 (image=docker.io/discourse/discourse_dev:release, name=discourse_dev)
Aug 09 18:47:48 fedora discourse_dev[19420]: Started runsvdir, PID is 29
Aug 09 18:47:48 fedora podman[19425]: 2022-08-09 18:47:48.535303673 +0200 CEST m=+2.048305123 container exec_died 5282393e248e33800e235b4405c9a7197d10a3fc1d405450f1c99d2a5c7c85c7 (image=docker.io/discourse/discourse_dev:release, name=discourse_dev, execID=166d86f7ca8739899bd59801c2f8bb3d9b940329d8e6bb29d0f45ad82e9d60b0)

The log dir in the discourse directory is empty, how could I troubleshoot this better?

The paths seem to set correctly to find the Gem file.

[user@fedora discourse]$ SCRIPTPATH=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" > /dev/null; pwd -P)
[user@fedora discourse]$ echo $SCRIPTPATH 
/home/user/discourse