Error in creating mount source path with docker about hap.py

[pkrusche]

One possibility is that the /homes folder is mounted via NFS and this causes problems for Docker. It seems this has happened before: moby/moby#31792

A thing you could try is to copy your files into a locally mounted directory (e.g. /tmp) and mount that.

Compiling hap.py directly should work also (the Dockerfile gives all the required packages).

[pkrusche]

Are you sure /homes is the correct path, not /home ?

[pkrusche]

Mounting things inside Docker requires access to all folders that you would like to mount. Depending on your system, setup and Docker version, slightly different commands might be required. Docker has some documentation on this here: https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/

[BowenKwan]

Thank you for the reply. I am working on a shared server so the name is /homes.

When you say it requires access to folders I would like to mount, does it mean the /homes drive in this case? As far as I understand, the code above is mounting /homes/ on /data under docker image pkrusche/hap.py. Is that right?

As I am working on a shared server, I have tried running the code as root (have root access but not full access to /homes)and in my personal account (which without root access). In both cases, the error docker: Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/homes/pyk12/Desktop/DeepVariant': mkdir /homes: read-only file system. occurs. So I am not sure what may be the problem.

On the other hand, can I simply use hap.py instead of using it through docker? What would be the drawback if I do so?

Thank you very much for your help.