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Scancode.io startup fails #2157

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@hesa

Describe the bug

When running scancode.io from docker I cannot access the web ui (hangs) and I see the following in the log:

.... snip
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker processes
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 29
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 30
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 31
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 32
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 33
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 34
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 35
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 36
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 37
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 38
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 39
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 40
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 41
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 42
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 43
nginx-1     | 2026/05/08 09:46:20 [notice] 1#1: start worker process 44
web-1       | Operations to perform:
web-1       |   Apply all migrations: admin, auth, contenttypes, django_rq, scanpipe, sessions, taggit
web-1       | Running migrations:
web-1       |   No migrations to apply.
web-1       | Traceback (most recent call last):
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/./manage.py", line 14, in <module>
web-1       |     command_line()
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/scancodeio/__init__.py", line 107, in command_line
web-1       |     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line
web-1       |     utility.execute()
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 437, in execute
web-1       |     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 420, in run_from_argv
web-1       |     self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 464, in execute
web-1       |     output = self.handle(*args, **options)
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 214, in handle
web-1       |     collected = self.collect()
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 119, in collect
web-1       |     self.clear_dir("")
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 290, in clear_dir
web-1       |     self.storage.delete(fpath)
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
web-1       |   File "/opt/scancodeio/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/django/core/files/storage/filesystem.py", line 165, in delete
web-1       |     os.remove(name)
web-1       |     ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
web-1       | PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/scancodeio/static/billboard-3.0.1.pkgd.min.js.ABOUT'
web-1 exited with code 1

System configuration

  • Which version of ScanCode.io are you running?
    git latest
$ git rev-parse HEAD
904373abf472e0567a99a3b1b5213e084040b5c1
  • Are you running the app using Docker?
    Yes
  • On which OS?
    Ubuntu 25.10
  • What inputs are you using?
    N/A - fails starting up
  • Which pipeline are you running?
    N/A - fails starting up

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Steps to reproduce the behavior:

git clone https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode.io.git && cd scancode.io
make envfile
docker compose build
docker compose up

Note: I purged every container/image in docker before executing the above commands.

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