Failed to execute docker-compose up

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The project occured a build error without changing code today.
Build error message was below.

$ docker-compose -v
docker-compose version 1.14.0, build c7bdf9e

$ docker-compose up -d
foo_db-test_1 is up-to-date
foo_db_1 is up-to-date

ERROR: for web  expected string or buffer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/circleci/.pyenv/versions/2.7.11/bin/docker-compose", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/opt/circleci/python/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 68, in main
    command()
  File "/opt/circleci/python/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 118, in perform_command
    handler(command, command_options)
  File "/opt/circleci/python/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 926, in up
    scale_override=parse_scale_args(options['--scale']),
  File "/opt/circleci/python/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/compose/project.py", line 424, in up
    get_deps
  File "/opt/circleci/python/2.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages/compose/parallel.py", line 69, in parallel_execute
    raise error_to_reraise
TypeError: expected string or buffer

docker-compose up -d returned exit code 1

Action failed: docker-compose up -d

Deleting the docker-compose up command, the build succeeded.

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I am facing exactly same issue at the moment.

3

I am facing the same issue as well. Any updates to this today?

4

Also getting this issue. We don’t use docker-compose up, we use docker-compose run.

5

This is duplicate of this:

Problem is Docker 2.4, solution is to pip install the 2.3

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Thanks @clickthisnick !

This problem was solved by changing the installation method of docker-compose.

    - curl -sSL https://s3.amazonaws.com/circle-downloads/install-circleci-docker.sh | bash -s -- 1.10.0
    - pip install --upgrade pip
-    - pip install docker-compose
+    - pip install docker-compose docker==2.3