I’ve never had a problem running Discourse on CentOS in the past, but I’m suddenly unable to build it for some reason on a new CentOS 7.3 EC2 instance. While building, the errors begin with: I, [2017-03-02T05:29:38.051256 #13] INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && chown -R discourse /var/www/disco…

As usual I suspect Docker issues. Notorious under Red Hat or clones. What filesystem is being used? docker info and all that.

[image] codinghorror: As usual I suspect Docker issues. Notorious under Red Hat or clones. What filesystem is being used? docker info and all that. Hmm. All my Dockerfiles play well with CentOS, but maybe that’s because I develop against RHEL-type distros exclusively. [image] mpalmer: Do…

[image] DanielMarquard: All my Dockerfiles play well with CentOS Do you ever do a chmod, chown, or similar in your Dockerfile? Most dockerfiles I’ve seen do absolutely everything as root, so they don’t hit this particular bug. [image] DanielMarquard: What does “ftype” refer to? It’s …

[image] mpalmer: Do you ever do a chmod, chown, or similar in your Dockerfile? Nope. [image] mpalmer: So what does docker info have to say on your system? My docker info shows that d_type support is not enabled. [root@ip-172-31-60-203 discourse]# docker info Containers: 0 Running: 0…

[image] DanielMarquard: The best practice for using CentOS with EC2 is to use the officially-supported AMIs, so I’m not sure I have control over that. Time to report a bug against that AMI, then. [image] DanielMarquard: At least one of the issues in that post included a fix The two is…

[image] mpalmer: Time to report a bug against that AMI, then. I’ll reach out to my account manager at Amazon tomorrow. Thanks for the help.

I’ve already included solutions in my original post, anything stopped you from doing that?

Installation failing on CentOS 7.3

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) March 2, 2017, 5:48am 3

Does Discourse on CentOS 7.3 help you at all?

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