`docker restart galaxy-dev-backend` failed with "not a directory"
after every dev-deploy workflow run. Root cause: the compose file
bind-mounted the geoip database via a relative path
(`../../pkg/geoip/test-data/test-data/GeoIP2-Country-Test.mmdb`).
When the Gitea runner invoked `docker compose up`, the path
resolved against the runner's ephemeral workspace under
`/home/runner/.cache/act/<hash>/hostexecutor/...`. The bind source
baked into the running container therefore pointed at that
ephemeral path; the runner deleted the workspace once the workflow
finished, and any later `docker restart` could not remount.
Replace the bind with a named volume `galaxy-dev-geoip-data`,
seeded at deploy time:
- `tools/dev-deploy/docker-compose.yml`: mount
`galaxy-dev-geoip-data:/var/lib/galaxy:ro` instead of a relative
bind. Declare the volume in the top-level `volumes:` block.
- `.gitea/workflows/dev-deploy.yaml`: new `Seed geoip volume` step
(placed right after the existing UI-volume seed) copies the
fixture from `pkg/geoip/test-data/test-data/` into the named
volume via an ephemeral alpine container, the same pattern UI
seeding already uses.
- `tools/dev-deploy/Makefile`: new `seed-geoip` target performs
the same copy from the persistent checkout. `up` and `rebuild`
now depend on it, so a hand-run `make -C tools/dev-deploy up`
populates the volume without operator action.
- `tools/dev-deploy/README.md`: updated the make-targets table to
list `seed-geoip`.
- `tools/dev-deploy/KNOWN-ISSUES.md`: the entry for the restart
failure is downgraded to a "fixed" postmortem; the symptom,
cause, and where the fix lives are kept for future reference.
Verification on the dev host (this branch checked out):
$ make -C tools/dev-deploy up # populates the volume, brings stack healthy
$ docker restart galaxy-dev-backend # used to error "not a directory"
$ until [ "$(docker inspect -f '{{.State.Health.Status}}' galaxy-dev-backend)" = "healthy" ]; do sleep 2; done
$ echo "ok" # backend up 6s, healthy
The pre-existing sandbox engine `galaxy-game-80f3ce86-...` survived
both `make up` and `docker restart` untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ilia Denisov