jhanarato
October 21, 2025, 3:48am
1
G’day,
I’ve started work on a project that started in 2023 and was somewhat abandoned for a while. There are multiple problems due to bitrot, but I’m looking for help with the following error running the build script, which uses docker compose:
dependency failed to start: container elasticsearch_setup exited (0)
I think that exiting is normal in this case. The logs seem to agree:
jr@JR25:~/Code/elastic-bilara$ docker logs --tail 8 elasticsearch_setup
Setting file permissions
Waiting for Elasticsearch availability
Setting kibana_system password
All done!
Setting file permissions
Waiting for Elasticsearch availability
Setting kibana_system password
All done!
Any help is greatly appreciated.
bluepuma77
October 21, 2025, 11:29am
2
Well, share your Docker compose file.
bluepuma77
October 21, 2025, 5:16pm
4
Did it work before? How about you ask on Github? We don’t know their setup and logic.
jhanarato
October 22, 2025, 1:19am
5
Unfortunately the original developers are no longer involved and there’s no one to ask. There is one developer trying to get it finished but I suspect it only works on his machine due to the cache.
Put simply: the elasticsearch_setup container seems to be required to run once for a new install.
Here’s the script it runs:
You can see from the logs that it runs through to the end of the script and exits normally. Here’s the full output of the build script:
jr@JR25:~/Code/elastic-bilara$ make build
WARN[0000] /home/jr/Code/elastic-bilara/docker-compose.yml: the attribute `version` is obsolete, it will be ignored, please remove it to avoid potential confusion
[+] Building 5.1s (22/22) FINISHED
=> [internal] load local bake definitions 0.0s
=> => reading from stdin 2.02kB 0.0s
=> [bilara-backend internal] load build definition from backend.dockerfile 0.0s
=> => transferring dockerfile: 588B 0.0s
=> [bilara-backend internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/python:3.11.3 1.0s
=> [worker_pr internal] load .dockerignore 0.0s
=> => transferring context: 2B 0.0s
=> [worker_pr 1/9] FROM docker.io/library/python:3.11.3@sha256:3a619e3c96fd4c5fc5e1998fd4dcb1f1403eb90c4c6409c70d7e80b9468df7df 0.0s
=> [worker_pr internal] load build context 0.7s
=> => transferring context: 278.93MB 0.7s
=> CACHED [bilara-backend 2/9] RUN pip install --upgrade pip && pip install poetry==1.8.5 0.0s
=> CACHED [bilara-backend 3/9] RUN poetry config virtualenvs.create false 0.0s
=> CACHED [bilara-backend 4/9] COPY ./pyproject.toml ./poetry.lock* /app/ 0.0s
=> CACHED [bilara-backend 5/9] WORKDIR /app/ 0.0s
=> CACHED [bilara-backend 6/9] RUN poetry lock && poetry install --no-interaction --no-ansi --no-root 0.0s
=> CACHED [bilara-backend 7/9] RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git && mkdir -p checkouts/ 0.0s
=> [bilara-backend 8/9] COPY . . 1.0s
=> [worker_commit 9/9] RUN chmod +x /app/scripts/entrypoint.sh 0.3s
=> [worker_sync] exporting to image 0.9s
=> => exporting layers 0.7s
=> => writing image sha256:ab048cedddeddb838e3f6d8151c9be7866d3b1d506a0164c447ae79b22c833cc 0.0s
=> => naming to docker.io/library/elastic-bilara-worker_sync 0.0s
=> [worker_pr] exporting to image 0.9s
=> => exporting layers 0.7s
=> => writing image sha256:13453e15d8c5a0ebe5365af8badfbf6c61014e6b8970fab72e79516f7776145e 0.1s
=> => naming to docker.io/library/elastic-bilara-worker_pr 0.0s
=> [worker_commit] exporting to image 0.9s
=> => exporting layers 0.7s
=> => writing image sha256:b5ee782d3db6b9e85d8bc34b5c2d18839e99ef7000f2b8df4ecf233b07dbb4b5 0.0s
=> => naming to docker.io/library/elastic-bilara-worker_commit 0.1s
=> [bilara-backend] exporting to image 0.9s
=> => exporting layers 0.7s
=> => writing image sha256:ce22a4daca20a2fc7f822c522cb4af13f4bc8739e9326c295593f83f973e412c 0.0s
=> => naming to docker.io/library/elastic-bilara-bilara-backend 0.1s
=> [worker_sync] resolving provenance for metadata file 0.2s
=> [bilara-backend] resolving provenance for metadata file 0.2s
=> [worker_commit] resolving provenance for metadata file 0.1s
=> [worker_pr] resolving provenance for metadata file 0.0s
[+] Running 14/14
✔ elastic-bilara-worker_sync Built 0.0s
✔ elastic-bilara-bilara-backend Built 0.0s
✔ elastic-bilara-worker_commit Built 0.0s
✔ elastic-bilara-worker_pr Built 0.0s
✔ Container redis Running 0.0s
✔ Container elastic-bilara-db-1 Running 0.0s
✔ Container nginx Running 0.0s
✔ Container elasticsearch Running 0.0s
✔ Container worker_sync Recreated 0.3s
✔ Container worker_pr Recreated 0.3s
✔ Container worker_commit Recreated 0.3s
✔ Container kibana Running 0.0s
✔ Container bilara-backend Recreated 10.3s
✘ Container elasticsearch_setup Error 1.7s
dependency failed to start: container elasticsearch_setup exited (0)
make: *** [Makefile:21: build] Error 1
Has anything changed in the past couple of years that would cause this? Like exiting normally becoming an error?
jhanarato
October 22, 2025, 3:00am
6
I can actually build the project if I comment out these lines:
elasticsearch:
# depends_on:
# setup:
# condition: service_healthy
docker compose up then runs, and includes this output:
elasticsearch_setup | Setting kibana_system password
elasticsearch_setup | All done!
elasticsearch_setup exited with code 0
jhanarato
October 24, 2025, 1:20am
7
It looks like this is an issue with the shell scripts that generate certificates, not a docker problem.
Thanks again!
system
November 23, 2025, 1:20am
8
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