Docker run Error

[knolljo]

When running the command specified in the documentation docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 42069:42069 -v ./data:/exa/exadir ghcr.io/varbhat/exatorrent:latest I get following output and the container exits:

Address => :5000
Directory => exadir

[ERR ] 2023/06/28 12:25:15 Error Creating Directory

[Sackbuoy]

Ran into the same issue here, figured it was was an architecture issue(m2 mac) but I saw the same issue on an Ubuntu x86 machine. My setup is as follows:

Ubuntu 18.04.4
Linux Kernel 4.15.0-213-generic
Docker version 20.10.12, build e91ed57

I have permissions to the directory im using, im honestly not even sure where the error is originating from, since the Dockerfile doesnt appear to be trying to make any directories.

Plain and simple, I get this error after running these commands straight from the docs

# works just fine
docker pull ghcr.io/varbhat/exatorrent:latest 

# Fails with exact error in issue description
docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 42069:42069 -v ~/exatorrent/data:/exa/exadir ghcr.io/varbhat/exatorrent:latest

But for what its worth, it looks like building it myself and running it that way works just fine

[Sackbuoy]

@knolljo I figured it out, its a permissions issue. You need to make sure the directory you are supplying it is writable by all users. so in your case it seems like running
chmod 777 ~/exatorrent/data
will solve the issue for you, though this is kind of a hack; the permissions should not need to be that lax.

I think the bigger issue here is the USER line in the Dockerfile - it hardcodes the user ID and group ID to 1000 - which I believe is the default user on *nix systems. But if the user running is not the main/first user on your system, then the container will not have permissions to use a directory created by your user.

with that in mind, you should be able to run it with the following, to specify the user with the same PUID/PGID as the one that created the directory:
docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 42069:42069 -u $(id -u ${USER}):$(id -g ${USER}) -v /path/to/directory:/exa/exadir ghcr.io/varbhat/exatorrent:latest

@varbhat any thoughts or preferences?

[nlevee]

@Sackbuoy It's fix in the PR #404

Startup without parameters is working now.

We have to fix now volume mounted