postgres not found

[dwhitnall]

Hi all, this has just started happening and I have no idea where to start to resolve it as I have been running the same image on 3 containers (different stacks) for over a year.
The image I've been using is postgres:14
However recently I've been getting this

postgres-lube  |
postgres-lube  | PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization
postgres-lube  |
postgres-lube  | /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: line 351: exec: postgres: not found
postgres-lube exited with code 127

Compose YML

  postgres:
    container_name: postgres-lube
    image: postgres:14
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - lubelogger
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: "l****"
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "l*****"
      POSTGRES_DB: "lubelogger"
    volumes:
      - /home/docker/lubelogger/pgdata/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

This has been plaguing me for a number of days now.

[tianon]

My best guess is a corrupted image -- did you perhaps run out of space while downloading it? Have you tried forcibly purging it and re-downloading?

[pv-jeff]

I ran into this issue today.
It seemed to correlate to the postgres:17-bullseye build being updated from 17.2 -> 17.3 .
I updated from using postgres:17-bullseye to postgres:17.2-bullseye and I stopped getting the error and image worked as expected.

[LaurentGoderre]

What do you get when you do docker inspect postgres:17-bullseye?

[pv-jeff]

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[LaurentGoderre]

What OS are you using on your host?

[pv-jeff]

Rocky 9.5
Docker version 27.5.1, build 9f9e405
Docker Compose version v2.32.4