WordPress container won't initialize in dev environment

[bradyvercher]

I've been trying to set up a dev environment, but I'm not able to get the WordPress container to initialize. I can access the site via the browser, but it doesn't contain any of the app code. When I try to manually start the container, this is the log output:

rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(vip-config) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(log) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(config) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(wp-content/uploads) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(wp-content/themes) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(wp-content/private) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(wp-content/plugins) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(wp-content/languages) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(wp-content/images) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: [generator] delete_file: rmdir(wp-content/client-mu-plugins) failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1338) [sender=3.3.0]

$ docker -v
Docker version 29.4.2, build 055a478

$ vip -v
4.0.0

$ docker image ls | grep ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images
WARNING: This output is designed for human readability. For machine-readable output, please use --format.
ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images/lando-util:4         7f7994d493e4        295MB         66.8MB
ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images/mu-plugins:0.1       f47335642c2a       1.22GB          290MB
ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images/nginx:latest         5cd2cd0c430b        103MB         27.5MB   U
ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images/php-fpm:8.3          2bb18ae7d77a        921MB          228MB   U
ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images/traefik_openssl:v3   025038833b0d        223MB         48.5MB   U
ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images/wordpress:6.8        5deec13f4c0c        113MB         22.8MB
ghcr.io/automattic/vip-container-images/wordpress:6.9        a8e03f516048        121MB         25.6MB   U

Any help would be appreciated.

[sjinks]

@bradyvercher when you start a dev env, it prints the location of the log file:

$ vip dev-env start
Current local environment version is: 2.3.3
no container to kill
No stopped containers
...
 COMMAND LOG FILE   /home/volodymyr/.local/share/vip/lando/logs/vip-dev-env-vip-local-20260508-182355.log

Could you please attach the command log file?

[bradyvercher]

@sjinks Yep, it's attached.

vip-dev-env-20260508-185011.log

[sjinks]

@bradyvercher was it the gear-patrol repo, branch develop-built? Did you run vip dev-env sql sync? I was able to start the environment, and it seems to work.

PS: if you don't want to discuss this publicly, please create a ticket via ZenDesk and mention this issue.

[bradyvercher]

@sjinks I did sync the database, but with production. After syncing with the develop environment it seems to work, but I'm still receiving the rsync error and the WordPress container doesn't start.