By jco42
Below is the error I am getting. I’ve manually installed lighttpd, which removed that error and manually installed rails but I still get this. I haven’t found much out there so i hope i’m not overlooking something simple. Thanks:
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Synchronizing state of docker.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install… Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable docker
(<unknown>): could not find expected ‘:’ while scanning a simple key at line 63 column 1 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 YAML syntax error. Please check your containers/*.yml config files. Error response from daemon: No such container: rails
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I used the 1 click droplet setup on the $10 plan. After the droplet was created I logged in to root via SSH, entered email, domain and sftp info. Then I received the following:
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Synchronizing state of docker.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable docker
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `docker' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `docker' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
(<unknown>): did not find expected node content while parsing a block node at line 62 column 28 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8
YAML syntax error. Please check your containers/*.yml config files.
Error response from daemon: No such container: rails
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http://159.203.77.174
Curling the IP shows not accepting connections:
curl -IL http://159.203.77.174
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 159.203.77.174 port 80: Connection refused
Same problem… why publish a One-Click install that hasn’t been tested properly and doesn’t work?!?
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