Fails on password

[beathazarddowner]

tried this:
Start from the prebuilt image:

git clone https://github.com/deeplethe/utopia.git
cd utopia
docker compose --profile app up -d
Open http://localhost:1516/ and register. The first account automatically becomes the administrator, and a public knowledge base readable by everyone is created at the same time. Before extracting business documents, configure the model endpoints (chat and embedding) under Administration → Models.

✔ Volume utopia_dbdata Created 0.4s
✔ Network utopia_default Created 0.8s
✘ Container utopia-db-1 Error dependency db failed to start 44.1s
✔ Container utopia-app-1 Created 1.4s
dependency failed to start: container utopia-db-1 exited (0)

app-1 | Error: error returned from database: password authentication failed for user "utopia"
app-1 |
app-1 | Caused by:
app-1 | password authentication failed for user "utopia"
app-1 | Error: error returned from database: password authentication failed for user "utopia"
app-1 |
app-1 | Caused by:
app-1 | password authentication failed for user "utopia"

tried setting the password in an env file, still could not get the app to run.

[WaylandYang]

Thanks for the report, and sorry about that — it was a real bug, and one that only shows on Linux/macOS.

Root cause: docker/init-app-role.sh is mounted into Postgres's init directory without an executable bit, so the Postgres entrypoint sources it instead of running it — and the script's exit 0 (taken whenever UTOPIA_APP_DB_PASSWORD is unset, which is the default) exited the entrypoint itself. That is the db exited (0). Fixed in #459.

The password error afterwards is a separate thing: the first run had already initialised the volume with the default password, so changing UTOPIA_DB_PASSWORD in .env later only changed what the app sends. Until the fix is released, this works from a clean state:

docker compose --profile app down -v
chmod +x docker/init-app-role.sh
docker compose --profile app up -d

(down -v deletes the data volume — fine for a fresh install.) If you want to keep an existing volume and a new password instead, set it in the database as well: docker compose exec db psql -U utopia -c "ALTER USER utopia PASSWORD '<new password>'".