# Docker issue? Hard drive? Please help! **URL:** \ **Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [September 7, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/docker-issue-hard-drive-please-help/9353 "2022-09-07T16:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BitcoinZAR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/bitcoinzar/32/3216_2.png) [@BitcoinZAR](https://community.umbrel.com/u/BitcoinZAR)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/docker-issue-hard-drive-please-help/9353/1 "2022-09-07T16:23:10Z")
I cannot seem to get Umbrel to boot properly. I have tried reflashing the card with latest version of umbrel, I have rebooted, etc. and tried to restart docker, and that is where I saw some errors such as: ERROR: The Compose file ‘./docker-compose.yml’ is invalid and Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running? I am not an expert and not sure what to do. I have tried to start and stop docker but that does not work properly. I tried to unmount the drive and get an error that its busy. I see some other people here had similar problems so I followed the instructions they gave but none has worked for me so far. I also have assigned a local IP address to the Pi using my router, so that is how I use Putty to access it. Here is the log file: # ===================== = Umbrel debug info = ## Umbrel version 0.5.1 ## Flashed OS version v0.5.0 ## Raspberry Pi Model Revision : d03115 Serial : 10000000517f374b Model : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 ## Firmware Dec 1 2021 15:01:54 Copyright © 2012 Broadcom version 71bd3109023a0c8575585ba87cbb374d2eeb038f (clean) (release) (start) ## Temperature temp=39.4’C ## Throttling throttled=0x0 ## Memory usage ``` total used free shared buff/cache available ``` Mem: 7.8G 140M 7.4G 8.0M 311M 7.5G Swap: 4.1G 0B 4.1G total: 1.8% system: 1.8% tor: 0% pi-hole: 0% lnd: 0% lightning: 0% electrs: 0% btcpay-server: 0% bitcoin: 0% bitcoin: 0% ## Memory monitor logs 2022-09-07 16:12:09 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:12:21 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:12:33 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:12:45 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:12:57 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:13:08 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:13:20 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:13:32 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:13:44 Memory monitor running! 2022-09-07 16:13:55 Memory monitor running! ## Filesystem information Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 15G 1.8G 12G 13% / /dev/sda1 1.8T 508G 1.3T 30% /home/umbrel/umbrel ## Startup service logs Sep 07 16:13:55 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: Starting karen… Sep 07 16:13:55 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: Starting status monitors… Sep 07 16:13:55 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: Starting memory monitor… Sep 07 16:13:55 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: Starting backup monitor… Sep 07 16:13:55 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: Starting decoy backup trigger… Sep 07 16:13:55 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: Starting Docker services… Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The TOR\_PROXY\_PORT variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The TOR\_PROXY\_IP variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The NGINX\_PORT variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The NGINX\_IP variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The DASHBOARD\_IP variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The UMBREL\_AUTH\_SECRET variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The BITCOIN\_P2P\_PORT variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The BITCOIN\_RPC\_PORT variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The BITCOIN\_RPC\_USER variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The BITCOIN\_RPC\_PASS variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The BITCOIN\_NETWORK variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The MANAGER\_IP variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The AUTH\_PORT variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The AUTH\_IP variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The NETWORK\_IP variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: The Compose file ‘./docker-compose.yml’ is invalid because: Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: networks.default.ipam.config.subnet is invalid: should use the CIDR format Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: services.tor\_proxy.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: services.auth.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: services.nginx.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel umbrel startup[25117]: Failed to start containers Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel systemd[1]: umbrel-startup.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel systemd[1]: umbrel-startup.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’. Sep 07 16:13:57 umbrel systemd[1]: Failed to start Umbrel Startup Service. ## External storage service logs – Logs begin at Wed 2022-09-07 16:01:57 UTC, end at Wed 2022-09-07 16:13:57 UTC. – Sep 07 16:02:02 umbrel systemd[1]: Starting External Storage Mounter… Sep 07 16:02:02 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Running external storage mount script… Sep 07 16:02:02 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Found device “TOSHIBA External USB 3.0” Sep 07 16:02:02 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Blacklisting USB device IDs against UAS driver… Sep 07 16:02:02 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Rebinding USB drivers… Sep 07 16:02:02 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Checking USB devices are back… Sep 07 16:02:02 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Waiting for USB devices… Sep 07 16:02:03 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Waiting for USB devices… Sep 07 16:02:04 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Waiting for USB devices… Sep 07 16:02:05 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Checking if the device is ext4… Sep 07 16:02:05 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Yes, it is ext4 Sep 07 16:02:05 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Checking if device contains an Umbrel install… Sep 07 16:02:05 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Yes, it contains an Umbrel install Sep 07 16:02:06 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Bind mounting external storage over local Umbrel installation… Sep 07 16:02:06 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Bind mounting external storage over local Docker data dir… Sep 07 16:02:06 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Bind mounting external storage to /swap Sep 07 16:02:06 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Bind mounting SD card root at /sd-card… Sep 07 16:02:06 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Checking Umbrel root is now on external storage… Sep 07 16:02:07 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Checking /var/lib/docker is now on external storage… Sep 07 16:02:07 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Checking /swap is now on external storage… Sep 07 16:02:07 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Setting up swapfile Sep 07 16:02:13 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4 GiB (4294963200 bytes) Sep 07 16:02:13 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: no label, UUID=a0be8aed-0de6-46f9-8b8e-56ae9f26bfbc Sep 07 16:02:13 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Checking SD Card root is bind mounted at /sd-root… Sep 07 16:02:13 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Starting external drive mount monitor… Sep 07 16:02:13 umbrel external storage mounter[486]: Mount script completed successfully! 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Is the docker daemon running? ## Umbrel logs ERROR: The Compose file ‘./docker-compose.yml’ is invalid because: networks.default.ipam.config.subnet is invalid: should use the CIDR format services.tor\_proxy.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object services.auth.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object services.nginx.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object ## Tor logs ERROR: The Compose file ‘./docker-compose.yml’ is invalid because: networks.default.ipam.config.subnet is invalid: should use the CIDR format services.tor\_proxy.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object services.auth.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object services.nginx.ports contains an invalid type, it should be a number, or an object ## App logs bitcoin ./scripts/app: line 82: NETWORK\_IP: unbound variable btcpay-server ./scripts/app: line 82: NETWORK\_IP: unbound variable lightning ./scripts/app: line 82: NETWORK\_IP: unbound variable pi-hole # ./scripts/app: line 82: NETWORK\_IP: unbound variable # ==== Result ==== The debug script did not automatically detect any issues with your Umbrel. ---
**Author:** ![sleepingsexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sleepingsexton](https://community.umbrel.com/u/sleepingsexton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/docker-issue-hard-drive-please-help/9353/2 "2022-09-09T14:03:46Z")
I am having the same issue. Its as if there is a circular issue - environment variables are not available or not loaded correctly so docker cannot start. None of the troubleshooting steps suggested work, as they rely on docker to be running. Re-flashed SD card twice and tried a new one. Any help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![sleepingsexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@sleepingsexton](https://community.umbrel.com/u/sleepingsexton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/docker-issue-hard-drive-please-help/9353/3 "2022-09-09T14:52:40Z")
Resolved it by following this: > **[How I fixed docker panic: assertion failed: write: circular dependency...](https://techoverflow.net/2022/01/05/how-i-fixed-docker-panic-assertion-failed-write-circular-dependency-occurred/)** > > Problem: When starting docker on a VM that got suddenly turned off before during a power outage, the docker daemon failed to start up with the following error log: Jan 05 15:15:14 CoreOS-Haar dockerd\[5333\]: time="2022-01-05T15:15:14.946815577Z"... Then I was able to start docker. Once docker was back up, I could follow the suggested troubleshooting tips (rm .env && sudo ./scripts/configure + the update procedure) to get back up and running! ---
**Author:** ![BitcoinZAR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/bitcoinzar/32/3216_2.png) [@BitcoinZAR](https://community.umbrel.com/u/BitcoinZAR)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/docker-issue-hard-drive-please-help/9353/4 "2022-10-13T10:10:46Z")
None of that worked for me, I had to restart everything from the beginning including format hard drive etc. and wait a week for the blockchain to download again. This umbrel node seems very sketchy and unstable. ---
**Author:** ![unclematic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@unclematic](https://community.umbrel.com/u/unclematic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/docker-issue-hard-drive-please-help/9353/5 "2022-10-14T20:37:29Z")
did you ever figure out why your ssd got “write-only” ? i have tried everything and am about to clear everything and redownload blockchain and umbrel, etc ---
**Author:** ![BitcoinZAR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/bitcoinzar/32/3216_2.png) [@BitcoinZAR](https://community.umbrel.com/u/BitcoinZAR)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 8:25am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/docker-issue-hard-drive-please-help/9353/6 "2022-10-15T08:25:33Z")
No, I had to start over 😡