[BUG] Error at container setup while chown-ing laravel.log

[trevordavidlawrence]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

At startup, an error is shown in the container logs:

chown: cannot dereference '/app/www/storage/logs/laravel.log': No such file or directory

And no logs from Laravel seem to be recorded.

Expected Behavior

No errors at container startup and Laravel log data is persisted.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Run attached Docker Compose setup
2. docker compose logs bookstack

If I use a bind mount instead and put an empty file at www/laravel.log within the mounted directory, then the error goes away.

I suspect the code that is chown-ing files symlinked into the /config directory is choking on the fact that laravel.log does not yet exist there.

Environment

- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 within WSL2 on Windows 10
- How docker service was installed: distro's package manager (_NOT_ Docker Desktop for Windows)

CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation

Using this docker-compose.yaml:


---
version: "3.9"
services:
  bookstack:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/bookstack
    container_name: bookstack
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - APP_URL=http://localhost:6875
      - DB_HOST=bookstack_db
      - DB_PORT=3306
      - DB_USER=bookstack
      - DB_PASS=password
      - DB_DATABASE=bookstackapp
    volumes:
      - bookstack_app_data:/config
    ports:
      - 6875:80
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - bookstack_db
  bookstack_db:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb
    container_name: bookstack_db
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password
      - TZ=America/Chicago
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=bookstackapp
      - MYSQL_USER=bookstack
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=password
    volumes:
      - bookstack_db_data:/config
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
  bookstack_app_data:
  bookstack_db_data:

Container logs

[migrations] started
[migrations] 01-nginx-site-confs-default: executing...
[migrations] 01-nginx-site-confs-default: succeeded
[migrations] 02-default-location: executing...
grep: /config/nginx/site-confs/default.conf: No such file or directory
[migrations] 02-default-location: succeeded
[migrations] done
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Setting resolver to  127.0.0.11
Setting worker_processes to 8
generating self-signed keys in /config/keys, you can replace these with your own keys if required
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Generating BookStack app key for first run
App Key set to base64:V47ZKiXc5XA33834gq7PbdDnKSEkn1f71VsabtMNqcI= you can modify the file to update /config/BOOKSTACK_APP_KEY.txt
Running config - DB_HOST set
**** Insert DB_PORT='3306' into /config/www/.env ****
**** APP_URL in /config/www/.env is being updated from https://example.com to http://localhost:6875 ****
**** If this is an existing install, you should run the following line from your host terminal to update the database URL entries: ****
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docker exec -it bookstack php /app/www/artisan bookstack:update-url https://example.com http://localhost:6875
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Waiting for DB to be available

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chown: cannot dereference '/app/www/storage/logs/laravel.log': No such file or directory
**** Permissions could not be set. This is probably because your volume mounts are remote or read-only. ****
**** The app may not work properly and we will not provide support for it. ****
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
[ls.io-init] done.

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[j0nnymoe]

I suspect this is due to using WSL2, there known problems with this as you can see here: #125

[trevordavidlawrence]

I suspect this is due to using WSL2, there known problems with this as you can see here: #125

That's what I had thought for a while, but I've also been able to reproduce this on a non-WSL Ubuntu VM. There, as before, if I pre-create that file (www/laravel.log) in a bind mount the error does not occur.

[dimo414]

I'm encountering this error as well on a GCS Debian instance with a fresh Bookstack install:

bookstack    | chown: cannot dereference '/app/www/storage/logs/laravel.log': No such file or directory
bookstack    | **** Permissions could not be set. This is probably because your volume mounts are remote or read-only. ****
bookstack    | **** The app may not work properly and we will not provide support for it. ****

So I don't think it's limited to WSL.

[thibmart1]

Same here on Debian 11.11 (OMV):

chown: cannot dereference '/app/www/storage/logs/laravel.log': No such file or directory
**** Permissions could not be set. This is probably because your volume mounts are remote or read-only. ****
**** The app may not work properly and we will not provide support for it. ****

EDIT:
Got around the issue by manually creating the laravel.log file:

cd /your/bind/bookstack/volume/www
touch laravel.log   # this must be run with the user running the container as per the "PUID/GUID" options of LSIO

Then restart the container and your OK to go.

[thespad]

This is usually caused by issues with the filesystem backing the docker container layers; are you running anything like ZFS/btrfs/mergerfs/etc?

[thibmart1]

This is usually caused by issues with the filesystem backing the docker container layers; are you running anything like ZFS/btrfs/mergerfs/etc?

mergerfs yes (only the data volumes, Docker engine is on a basic ext4). Do you know how to solve this permanently?

[thespad]

If it's just your mounted volumes it shouldn't be causing a problem with init, it's only if the docker filesystem (typically /var/lib/docker) is on a different filesystem.

I can replicate this on a clean install, so I expect it's an upstream change (probably a Laravel bump) that's caused it. I'll have a look this afternoon.

[thespad]

Can people test lspipepr/bookstack:v23.10.4-pkg-14e04100-dev-78d685a31f47de8708c037d76c89e4cf7856c734-pr-196 and see if it resolves their issues please.

[GoldenTeacher25]

Can people test lspipepr/bookstack:v23.10.4-pkg-14e04100-dev-78d685a31f47de8708c037d76c89e4cf7856c734-pr-196 and see if it resolves their issues please.

I had the same issue yesterday. I can confirm that this image works as intended.