I’ve had this mysterious Docker error before error during container init: error mounting "/home/bla/Desktop/myproject/db/postgres-data" to rootfs at "/var/lib/postgresql/data": change mount propagation through procfd: open o_path procfd and I’ve scoured over the internet and have tried almost every…

In composse.yml I had postgres so it got the postgres latest. After changing it to postgres-16 it works. Where can I open an issue for this?

Probably in the official Docker Hub Postgres repo .

i have been looking all over the internet since GMT 10 am today it was very frustrating, had tried so many different things, googling didn’t help, LLMs were not of help Finally started googling each part of the error and found your solution, and it worked! Thanks a lot!

From a comment on the Github issue: —- For version 18 the new data path is: /var/lib/postgresql/18/docker So the correct bind mount in command is: docker run -d -v ~/test18:/var/lib/postgresql/18/docker -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=test postgres:18

i have alos encounter this issue but in docs it says like this Important Change: the PGDATA environment variable of the image was changed to be version specific in PostgreSQL 18 and above . For 18 it is /var/lib/postgresql/18/docker. Later versions will replace 18 with their respective major ver…

Mysterious Docker issue with postgres

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jmsummerlin (Jmsummerlin) October 3, 2025, 7:22pm 7

This image version worked for me.

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