# Greylog Docker 4.3.9 - Not starting **URL:** \ **Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\ **Created:** [December 27, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/greylog-docker-4-3-9-not-starting/27064 "2022-12-27T21:51:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sport](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@sport](https://community.graylog.org/u/sport)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/greylog-docker-4-3-9-not-starting/27064/1 "2022-12-27T21:51:02Z")
I had Graylog running awhile back and am now just getting time to get back to it. After creating the docker container again for Graylog, Mongo, and elasticsearch I ran into some issues. Following the docker setup, the docker crashes. indicating that it can not write to the journal path. **2. Describe your environment:** Docker running under Unraid Package Version: 4.3.9 Environment: Name: graylog Overview: Official Graylog Docker image. For more variables see the Graylog configuration file: … The default root user is named ‘admin’ To create the SHA256 string run ‘echo -n YOUR16CHARACTERPASSWORD | sha256sum’ Additional Requirements: Repository: graylog/graylog:4.3.9 Docker Hub URL: [Docker](https://hub.docker.com/r/graylog/graylog/) Icon URL: WebUI: http://[IP]:[PORT:9000] Extra Parameters: Post Arguments: CPU Pinning: Network Type: Host Console shell command: Shell Privileged: OFF GRAYLOG\_PASSWORD\_SECRET: •••••••••••••••• Container Variable: GRAYLOG\_PASSWORD\_SECRET GRAYLOG\_ROOT\_PASSWORD\_SHA2: •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Container Variable: GRAYLOG\_ROOT\_PASSWORD\_SHA2 GRAYLOG\_HTTP\_EXTERNAL\_URI: [http://10.71.74.23:9000/](http://10.71.74.23:9000/) Container Variable: GRAYLOG\_HTTP\_EXTERNAL\_URI Graylog web interface and REST API: 9000 (Container Port: 9000) Syslog TCP: 1514 (Container Port: 1514) Syslog UDP: 1514 (Container Port: 1514) GELF TCP: 12201 (Container Port: 12201) GELF UDP: 12201 (Container Port: 12201) MongoDB connection string: mongodb://10.71.74.23:27017/graylog Container Variable: GRAYLOG\_MONGODB\_URI List of Elasticsearch hosts Graylog should connect to: 10.71.74.23:9200 Container Variable: GRAYLOG\_ELASTICSEARCH\_HOSTS Need to be specified as a comma-separated list of valid URIs for the http ports of your elasticsearch nodes Appdata: /mnt/user/appdata/greylog Container Path: /usr/share/graylog/data/journal Last line of Docker log: “2022-12-27 15:56:07,662 ERROR: org.graylog2.bootstrap.preflight.PreflightCheckService - Preflight check failed with error: Journal directory \ is not writable!” **3. What steps have you already taken to try and solve the problem?** Found that the host path that had been created under appdata, had folder permissions that were set to root only from the docker setup, I adjusted the permissions to “drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Dec 26 19:39 greylog/” and made sure that the users group had this folder. **4. How can the community help?** Has anyone run into this recently, I do not remember having this problem the last time I started to set things up. Since the users group has read/write to the folder I’m not sure where to look at the moment for the underlying cause. **strong text** ---
**Author:** ![patrickmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/patrickmann/32/9091_2.png) [@patrickmann](https://community.graylog.org/u/patrickmann)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/greylog-docker-4-3-9-not-starting/27064/2 "2022-12-29T09:22:24Z")
GL uses a dedicated `graylog` group with ID 1100. You need to give that write permissions to your journal directory. > > > \### Problem description > > ERROR: Unable to access file /usr/share/graylog/data/jo…urnal/graylog2-committed-read-offset: Permission denied > \### Steps to reproduce the problem > > While doing a docker-compose up > Graylog server is stopping with the above error > > Here is the docker-compose file > > \`\`\` > mongo: > image: "mongo:3" > volumes: > - /graylog/data/mongo:/data/db > elasticsearch: > image: "elasticsearch:2" > command: "elasticsearch -Des.cluster.name='graylog'" > volumes: > - /graylog/data/elasticsearch:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data > graylog: > image: graylog2/server:2.0.0-rc.1-1 > volumes: > - /graylog/data/journal:/usr/share/graylog/data/journal > - /graylog/config:/usr/share/graylog/data/config > environment: > GRAYLOG\_PASSWORD\_SECRET: somepasswordpepper > GRAYLOG\_ROOT\_PASSWORD\_SHA2: 8c6976e5b5410415bde908bd4dee15dfb167a9c873fc4bb8a81f6f2ab448a918 > GRAYLOG\_REST\_TRANSPORT\_URI: http://127.0.0.1:12900 > > links: > - mongo:mongo > - elasticsearch:elasticsearch > ports: > - "9000:9000" > - "12900:12900" > \`\`\` > \### Environment > \- Graylog Version: 2 > \- Elasticsearch Version:2 > \- MongoDB Version: 3 > \- Operating System: CentOS 7 > \- Browser version: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/greylog-docker-4-3-9-not-starting/27064/3 "2023-01-12T09:22:59Z")
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