Hi, I’m trying to run

prefect server start

and running into an error:

{"internal":"could not connect to server: Connection refused\n\tIs the server running on host \"postgres\" (172.22.0.2) and accepting\n\tTCP/IP connections on port 5432?\n","path":"$","error":"connection error","code":"postgres-error"}

There’s a lot more to the error I can supply. I’ve done

prefect backend server

before trying to start the server

Hi Hugo, could you provide a bit more of the error?

here is a good chunk of it. thanks!

Hmmm is there enough space allocated for Postgres?

postgres_1  | The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
postgres_1  | This user must also own the server process.
postgres_1  | 
postgres_1  | The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
postgres_1  | The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
postgres_1  | The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
postgres_1  | 
postgres_1  | Data page checksums are disabled.
postgres_1  | 
postgres_1  | fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... ok
postgres_1  | initdb: could not create directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_wal": No space left on device
postgres_1  | initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data"
t_postgres_1 exited with code

how would I change that? I did check my system memory and it is not full

This may be an issue with the amount of space allocated to Docker. Perhaps try running

docker system prune --volumes

to reclaim space?

thank you! didn’t know that they would be related. It’s fixed

Happy to help!