Cannot start Headwind Remote: mounting nginx.conf

Question

I'm getting the following error while running Headwind Remote installation script install.sh:

TASK [(Re)Starting Headwind Remote] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "errors": ["ERROR: for remote-control_nginx_1  Cannot start service nginx: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:545: container init caused: rootfs_linux.go:76: mounting \"/opt/remote-control/deploy/dist/conf/nginx/nginx.conf\" to rootfs at \"/etc/nginx/nginx.conf\" caused: mount through procfd: not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type"], "module_stderr": "Found orphan containers (remote-control_certbot_1) for this project. If you removed or renamed this service in your compose file, you can run this command with the --remove-orphans flag to clean it up.\nRecreating remote-control_janus_1 ... \nRecreating remote-control_nginx_1 ... \n\u001b[1A\u001b[2K\nRecreating remote-control_nginx_1 ... \n\u001b[1B\nERROR: for remote-control_nginx_1  Cannot start service nginx: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:545: container init caused: rootfs_linux.go:76: mounting \"/opt/remote-control/deploy/dist/conf/nginx/nginx.conf\" to rootfs at \"/etc/nginx/nginx.conf\" caused: mount through procfd: not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type\n\u001b[2A\u001b[2K\nRecreating remote-control_janus_1 ... \n\u001b[2B", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "Error starting project Encountered errors while bringing up the project."}

How to fix this issue?

Answer 1

There is an issue: sometimes Ansible scripts mistakenly create a directory instead of a file. 

To diagnose the issue, run the command:

ls -l deploy/dist/conf/nginx/

If there are directories instead of files in this directory, then run the commands:

rm -rf deploy/dist/conf/nginx/nginx.conf

rm -rf deploy/dist/conf/nginx/dhparams.pem

docker-compose down

bash ./install.sh

This should fix the issue.