Failed to execute script docker compose windows

I use mac 10.11.6 El capitan and i installed docker toolbox and i am trying to use docker compose build option but i am throwing some errors as follows,

kj$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 71, in main
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 124, in perform_command
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 41, in project_from_options
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 113, in get_project
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 380, in load
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 380, in <listcomp>
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 513, in process_config_file
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 221, in get_service_dicts
  File "distutils/version.py", line 46, in __eq__
  File "distutils/version.py", line 337, in _cmp
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'
[83046] Failed to execute script docker-compose

The content of yml file

version: '3.3'

services:

  users:
    build:
      context: ./
      dockerfile: Dockerfile-dev
    volumes:
      - './:/usr/src/app'
    ports:
      - 5001:5000
    environment:
      - FLASK_APP=project/__init__.py
      - FLASK_ENV=development

I am not sure what causes this problem, Please give your suggestions, Thanks

Description of the issue

Fresh install of docker, seem to be getting a rather strange error when trying to
build with docker-compose build and the most simple of build files.

Context information (for bug reports)

Output of docker-compose version

docker-compose version 1.27.4, build 40524192
docker-py version: 4.3.1
CPython version: 3.7.7
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1g  21 Apr 2020

Output of docker version

Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Cloud integration: 1.0.2
 Version:           19.03.13
 API version:       1.40
 Go version:        go1.13.15
 Git commit:        4484c46d9d
 Built:             Wed Sep 16 16:58:31 2020
 OS/Arch:           darwin/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          19.03.13
  API version:      1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.13.15
  Git commit:       4484c46d9d
  Built:            Wed Sep 16 17:07:04 2020
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v1.3.7
  GitCommit:        8fba4e9a7d01810a393d5d25a3621dc101981175
 runc:
  Version:          1.0.0-rc10
  GitCommit:        dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.18.0
  GitCommit:        fec3683

Output of docker-compose config
(Make sure to add the relevant -f and other flags)

services:
  webapp:
    build:
      context: /Users/aleccooper/Github/Strava-Rankings/Strava-Ranking/StravaRanking/ranking_app
version: '3.8'

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. create following simple docker-compose.yml file

version: "3.8"

services:
  webapp:
    build: ./ranking_app

1. run docker-compose build

Observed result

Build fails with the below error

Expected result

Expect build to pass

Stacktrace / full error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
File «compose/cli/main.py», line 67, in main
File «compose/cli/main.py», line 126, in perform_command
File «compose/cli/main.py», line 302, in build
File «compose/project.py», line 468, in build
File «compose/project.py», line 450, in build_service
File «compose/service.py», line 1147, in build
compose.service.BuildError: (<Service: web>, {‘message’: ‘Cannot locate specified Dockerfile: Dockerfile’})

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File «docker-compose», line 3, in
File «compose/cli/main.py», line 78, in main
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not «dict») to str
[2640] Failed to execute script docker-compose

Additional information

OS version / distribution, docker-compose install method, etc.

macOS Catalina 10.15.7

I’m just at a loss with all these issues with Docker I’m having. This was working just fine and I haven’t touched it for a couple days SINCE it was working fine. So nothing could have been changed to make the app not load. I try to docker-compose build because I needed to fix my entrypoint.sh file that has the .pid file remover line. Here’s the output when I try to run docker-compose build:

Kyle_@LAPTOP-KSPCT1K1 MINGW64 /c/users/kyle_/desktop/canabnb (master)
$ docker-compose build
db uses an image, skipping
Building web
[6204] Failed to execute script docker-compose
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packagesdockerutilsbuild.py", line 96, in create_archive
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '\\?\C:\users\kyle_\desktop\canabnb\node_modules\.bin\acorn'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
  File "composeclimain.py", line 72, in main
  File "composeclimain.py", line 128, in perform_command
  File "composeclimain.py", line 304, in build
  File "composeproject.py", line 403, in build
  File "composeproject.py", line 385, in build_service
  File "composeservice.py", line 1106, in build
  File "site-packagesdockerapibuild.py", line 160, in build
  File "site-packagesdockerutilsbuild.py", line 31, in tar
  File "site-packagesdockerutilsbuild.py", line 100, in create_archive
OSError: Can not read file in context: \?C:userskyle_desktopcanabnbnode_modules.binacorn

This doesn’t make any sense to me and I have no idea where to even look to fix this error. It does say OSError at first so I’m wondering if it’s just some issue with Windows. Please help me on this, but keep in mind I’m still EXTREMELY NEW and only know basic coding HTML, CSS and some Rails as that’s what my bootcamp taught me. I in no way have any experience with Docker or any other type of development environment stuff. I realize I need to look into this and learn, but I’m just trying to build a simple web portfolio first. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I also have a repo set up for this app https://github.com/Kyle-Williamson-Dev/CanaBnb

This post was most recently updated on June 23rd, 2022.

3 min read.

Once again, I come to you with a surprisingly opaque problem and offer to share my bemusingly simple solution. That should be a dedicated series on my blog – although on second thought, perhaps lobbing 90% of my articles under one tag wouldn’t be helpful… 😁

Problem

When running docker-compose up the command would fail, and instead, output a disgustingly long set of what looks like a whole pile of pythons engaging in quantum entanglement, that would angrily hiss at you if bothered.

It’s not pretty. And it turns out, it’s (at least in this case) also not descriptive at all!

So the errors I got? See below:

Error while fetching server API version: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')

The whole stack trace looks something like the below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "dockerapiclient.py", line 214, in _retrieve_server_version
   File "dockerapidaemon.py", line 181, in version
   File "dockerutilsdecorators.py", line 46, in inner
   File "dockerapiclient.py", line 237, in _get
   File "requestssessions.py", line 543, in get
   File "requestssessions.py", line 530, in request
   File "requestssessions.py", line 643, in send
   File "requestsadapters.py", line 439, in send
   File "urllib3connectionpool.py", line 670, in urlopen
   File "urllib3connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request
   File "httpclient.py", line 1255, in request
   File "httpclient.py", line 1301, in _send_request
   File "httpclient.py", line 1250, in endheaders
   File "httpclient.py", line 1010, in _send_output
   File "httpclient.py", line 950, in send
   File "dockertransportnpipeconn.py", line 32, in connect
   File "dockertransportnpipesocket.py", line 23, in wrapped
   File "dockertransportnpipesocket.py", line 72, in connect
   File "dockertransportnpipesocket.py", line 52, in connect
 pywintypes.error: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
 During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "docker-compose", line 3, in 
   File "composeclimain.py", line 81, in main
   File "composeclimain.py", line 199, in perform_command
   File "composeclicommand.py", line 60, in project_from_options
   File "composeclicommand.py", line 152, in get_project
   File "composeclidocker_client.py", line 41, in get_client
   File "composeclidocker_client.py", line 170, in docker_client
   File "dockerapiclient.py", line 197, in init
   File "dockerapiclient.py", line 221, in _retrieve_server_version
 docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
 [6316] Failed to execute script docker-compose

Augh. The system cannot find the file specified? API version? What is going on…

Reason

The solution – at least for me – was simple. But before delving into that, let me describe my setup so that you know whether it is applicable for you or not!

I run Docker on Windows. It is configured to run on startup and just do its thing – but occasionally it suddenly needs to gulp down over 10Gb or RAM, then proceed to do nothing, and finally requires a restart.

The OS itself is fine, it seems to recover nicely. So this time, I just killed the process, waited for a few minutes, and manually ran docker-compose from PowerShell.

That’s when the error was thrown at me. 😳

Solution

I was executing the command from my non-elevated PowerShell window. But that didn’t match how I have configured it to run on startup – instead, I needed to run docker-compose from an elevated PowerShell console.

I also realized my Docker Desktop won’t show any of my containers when run non-elevated. I guess that’s kinda obvious, right?

For you, running your stuff elevated (with admin permissions / “as an admin”) or from another user profile, if that’s how it’s configured to run normally, might work.

Stupid? Hey, if it works… 😁

References

• Admin rights are not required for Docker on Windows anymore. It still seems to occasionally break, though. This Q on SO has some details on it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58663920/can-i-run-docker-desktop-on-windows-without-admin-privileges#:~:text=If%20your%20admin%20account%20is,the%20changes%20to%20take%20effect.

I use mac 10.11.6 El capitan and i installed docker toolbox and i am trying to use docker compose build option but i am throwing some errors as follows,

kj$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 71, in main
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 124, in perform_command
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 41, in project_from_options
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 113, in get_project
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 380, in load
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 380, in <listcomp>
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 513, in process_config_file
  File "compose/config/config.py", line 221, in get_service_dicts
  File "distutils/version.py", line 46, in __eq__
  File "distutils/version.py", line 337, in _cmp
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'
[83046] Failed to execute script docker-compose

The content of yml file

version: '3.3'

services:

  users:
    build:
      context: ./
      dockerfile: Dockerfile-dev
    volumes:
      - './:/usr/src/app'
    ports:
      - 5001:5000
    environment:
      - FLASK_APP=project/__init__.py
      - FLASK_ENV=development

I am not sure what causes this problem, Please give your suggestions, Thanks