Docker neo4j admin import not working

[mengjiakang2017]

Hi all,

I am new to docker neo4j and met an interesting problem when trying to use docker admin import - the import failed due to neostore file locked, a common issue when DB is still running, but when I check the db status, it reported that it's not running.

~/neo4j-test04 $ docker exec -it --user $(id -u):$(id -g) neo4j-test04 neo4j stop

Neo4j not running

~/neo4j-test04 $ docker exec -it --user $(id -u):$(id -g) neo4j-test04 neo4j status

Neo4j is not running

Then I checked further in browser, it is actually working and I can create/pull nodes.

then I checked the docker logs below - and see the data/ folder issue

docker logs neo4j-test06

Warning: Folder mounted to "/logs" is not writable from inside container. Changing folder owner to neo4j.

Warning: Folder mounted to "/data" is not writable from inside container. Changing folder owner to neo4j.

Changed password for user 'neo4j'.

Directories in use:

home: /var/lib/neo4j

config: /var/lib/neo4j/conf

logs: /logs

plugins: /plugins

import: /var/lib/neo4j/import

data: /var/lib/neo4j/data

certificates: /var/lib/neo4j/certificates

run: /var/lib/neo4j/run

Starting Neo4j.

2022-11-17 17:29:58.423+0000 WARN Unrecognized setting. No declared setting with name: apoc.export.file.enabled

2022-11-17 17:29:58.426+0000 WARN Unrecognized setting. No declared setting with name: apoc.import.file.enabled

2022-11-17 17:29:58.426+0000 WARN Unrecognized setting. No declared setting with name: apoc.import.file.use_neo4j_config

2022-11-17 17:29:58.426+0000 INFO Starting...

2022-11-17 17:30:00.198+0000 INFO ======== Neo4j 4.1.4 ========

2022-11-17 17:30:01.444+0000 INFO Initializing system graph model for component 'security-users' with version -1 and status UNINITIALIZED

2022-11-17 17:30:01.447+0000 INFO Setting up initial user from `auth.ini` file: neo4j

2022-11-17 17:30:01.447+0000 INFO Creating new user 'neo4j' (passwordChangeRequired=false, suspended=false)

2022-11-17 17:30:01.453+0000 INFO Setting version for 'security-users' to 2

2022-11-17 17:30:01.456+0000 INFO After initialization of system graph model component 'security-users' have version 2 and status CURRENT

2022-11-17 17:30:01.459+0000 INFO Performing postInitialization step for component 'security-users' with version 2 and status CURRENT

2022-11-17 17:30:01.559+0000 INFO Bolt enabled on 0.0.0.0:7687.

2022-11-17 17:30:02.449+0000 INFO Remote interface available at http://localhost:7474/

2022-11-17 17:30:02.451+0000 INFO Started.

2022-11-17 21:14:37.052+0000 INFO Neo4j Server shutdown initiated by request

2022-11-17 21:14:37.054+0000 INFO Stopping...

2022-11-17 21:14:42.527+0000 INFO Stopped.

Changed password for user 'neo4j'.

Directories in use:

home: /var/lib/neo4j

config: /var/lib/neo4j/conf

logs: /logs

plugins: /plugins

import: /var/lib/neo4j/import

data: /var/lib/neo4j/data

certificates: /var/lib/neo4j/certificates

run: /var/lib/neo4j/run

Starting Neo4j.

Did anyone see this before? Thanks!

[mengjiakang2017]

Here's the template I used for creating my containers-

docker run \

--name neo4j-test05 \

-p47474:7474 -p47687:7687 \

-d \

-v $HOME/neo4j-test05/data:/data \

-v $HOME/neo4j-test05/logs:/logs \

-v $HOME/neo4j-test05/import:/var/lib/neo4j/import \

-v $HOME/neo4j-test05/plugins:/plugins \

--env NEO4J_AUTH=neo4j/XXX \

neo4j:latest

[mengjiakang2017]

So I updated the docker run code to add the rights for folders but still got the error for my docker neo4j-admin import as cannot open folder data... did anyone meet this issue before? Thanks!

docker run \
--name neo4j-test04 \
-p37474:7474 -p37687:7687 \
-d \
-v $HOME/neo4j-test04/data:/data:rw \
-v $HOME/neo4j-test04/logs:/logs:rw \
-v $HOME/neo4j-test04/import:/var/lib/neo4j/import \
-v $HOME/neo4j-test04/plugins:/plugins \
--env NEO4J_AUTH=neo4j/test \
--privileged \
neo4j:latest

error message for neo4j-admin import -

IMPORT FAILED in 19323d 4h 15m 28s 530ms.

Data statistics is not available.

Peak memory usage: 0B

Import error: Unable to open store file: /data/databases/neo4j/neostore

Caused by:Unable to open store file: /data/databases/neo4j/neostore

org.neo4j.exceptions.UnderlyingStorageException: Unable to open store file: /data/databases/neo4j/neostore

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.CommonAbstractStore.checkAndLoadStorage(CommonAbstractStore.java:253)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.CommonAbstractStore.initialise(CommonAbstractStore.java:150)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.NeoStores.initialize(NeoStores.java:260)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.NeoStores.createMetadataStore(NeoStores.java:523)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.StoreType$15.open(StoreType.java:148)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.NeoStores.openStore(NeoStores.java:253)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.NeoStores.getOrOpenStore(NeoStores.java:298)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.NeoStores.verifyRecordFormat(NeoStores.java:178)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.NeoStores.<init>(NeoStores.java:116)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.StoreFactory.openNeoStores(StoreFactory.java:135)

at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.store.StoreFactory.openAllNeoStores(StoreFactory.java:99)

[mengjiakang2017]

Just an update that I tried-

• an earlier version 4.1.4
• delete the store_lock file in dbmss/ folder
• use ./bin/neo4j/console to restart but got an error of failed to start the database (but it is actually running and can be connected from the browser)

I wonder if how we can stop the database properly so I can run the docker neo4j-admin import. Thanks!