[GH-ISSUE #184] Postgres database container error #93

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opened 2026-02-17 17:06:06 -05:00 by yindo · 2 comments
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Originally created by @Meggness on GitHub (Aug 14, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Drop-OSS/drop/issues/184

Hi there

I'm experiencing an error when trying to use Docker Compose to build the Drop instance. I'm using the default configuration of the docker-compose.yml file provided on the Drop website, but every time I try to start up the container, I get the following error:

dependency failed to start: container drop-postgres-1 exited (1)

I'm using Docker Desktop on Windows with WSL, so not sure if that could be causing the error. Otherwise, it's possible I'm not configuring the database URL correctly as I haven't made any changes?

Thank you!

Originally created by @Meggness on GitHub (Aug 14, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Drop-OSS/drop/issues/184 Hi there I'm experiencing an error when trying to use Docker Compose to build the Drop instance. I'm using the default configuration of the docker-compose.yml file provided on the Drop website, but every time I try to start up the container, I get the following error: `dependency failed to start: container drop-postgres-1 exited (1) ` I'm using Docker Desktop on Windows with WSL, so not sure if that could be causing the error. Otherwise, it's possible I'm not configuring the database URL correctly as I haven't made any changes? Thank you!
yindo closed this issue 2026-02-17 17:06:06 -05:00
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@DecDuck commented on GitHub (Aug 14, 2025):

It seems like the database isn't working at all. Could you use docker compose logs to fetch the logs from the container? It should give us a better error message.

@DecDuck commented on GitHub (Aug 14, 2025): It seems like the database isn't working at all. Could you use `docker compose logs` to fetch the logs from the container? It should give us a better error message.
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@Meggness commented on GitHub (Aug 15, 2025):

It looks like it was specifically an issue related to WSL. I tweaked the external URL with my IP address, and then used Command Prompt instead of WSL to launch docker compose

@Meggness commented on GitHub (Aug 15, 2025): It looks like it was specifically an issue related to WSL. I tweaked the external URL with my IP address, and then used Command Prompt instead of WSL to launch docker compose
yindo changed title from Postgres database container error to [GH-ISSUE #184] Postgres database container error 2026-06-05 14:21:22 -04:00
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Reference: Drop-OSS/drop#93