Devcontainer Setup, Stuck at Updating Frontend

[Idea-Junkie]

Hello again everyone, with how wonderful this software and team is I was going to try and dip my toes in the water to try and see if I could maybe help contribute to bugs/docs. However in getting the dev container set up, everything was going smoothly up until I got this in the VScode terminal

InvenTree database migrations completed
# TASK05| done 
Updating frontend...

to which I have sat here for probably 30-40 minutes or so while I have been doing other things, assuming it would resolve itself

it has not

here are the versions I am running as well

Dev Containers VS code v0.442.0
Docker version 29.1.5, build 0e6fee6

VS Code Info
Version: 1.109.2 (user setup)
Commit: 591199df409fbf59b4b52d5ad4ee0470152a9b31
Date: 2026-02-10T20:18:23.520Z
Electron: 39.3.0
ElectronBuildId: 13168319
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.21.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

should I abort the programs and then delete the containers and re-download the repository and try again? or has anyone else run into this issue when setting up there devcontainer? any help would be appreciated!

thanks everyone for your support and hard work!

[Idea-Junkie]

also I tried to get the version of the dev-container and got this

Python paths:
Executable  /home/inventree/dev/venv/bin/python3
Environment /home/inventree/dev/venv
Invoke Tool /home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/invoke/__init__.py

Installation paths:
Base        /home/inventree
Config      /home/inventree/dev/config.yaml
Plugin File /home/inventree/dev/plugins.txt
Media       /home/inventree/dev/media
Static      /home/inventree/dev/static
Backup      /home/inventree/dev/backup

Versions:
InvenTree   1.3.0 dev
API         453
Python      3.11.14
Django      5.2.11
Node        v24.13.1
Yarn        ! Corepack is about to download https://registry.yarnpkg.com/yarn/-/yarn-1.22.22.tgz
? Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
1.22.22

Environment:
Platform    Devcontainer
Debug       True

Commit hash: b568e82
Commit date: 2026-02-13

[matmair]

this sounds a bit like #11282; maybe try re-downloading the repo and see if it works now; a fix is in master

[Idea-Junkie]

thats what I was thinking especially after I got the inventree version, Ill give that a try, thanks!

[Idea-Junkie]

running into the issue again, same version and commit as what is being referenced

[SchrodingersGat]

#11311

[Idea-Junkie]

Thanks for getting this fix started @SchrodingersGat! Appreciate all the work you've done!

[SchrodingersGat]

Please pull down the master code and try again :)

[Idea-Junkie]

Tried the new update, got a little bit further than getting stuck at the updating front end but got this error code

Compiling frontend translations
yarn run v1.22.22
$ lingui compile --typescript
Compiling message catalogs…
[2167811 ms] Port forwarding 58030 > 34715 > 34715: Local close with error
/home/inventree/src/frontend/node_modules/threads/dist/master/spawn.js:35
            timeoutHandle = setTimeout(() => reject(Error(errorMessage)), timeoutInMs);
                                                    ^

Error: Timeout: Did not receive an init message from worker after 10000ms. Make sure the worker calls expose().
    at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/inventree/src/frontend/node_modules/threads/dist/master/spawn.js:35:53)
    at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:605:17)
    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:541:7)

Node.js v24.13.1
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
ERROR: InvenTree command failed: 'yarn run compile'
- Refer to the error messages in the log above for more information

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Tried to change to a older maintained version of Node.js and it went past the frontend develop part so hopefully it fixed that, but was thrown this later

Collecting django-querycount==0.8.3 (from -r /home/inventree/src/backend/require
ments-dev.txt (line 394))
  Downloading django-querycount-0.8.3.tar.gz (6.7 kB)
  Installing build dependencies: started
  Installing build dependencies: still running...
  Installing build dependencies: still running...
  Installing build dependencies: still running...
  Installing build dependencies: still running...
  Installing build dependencies: still running...
  Installing build dependencies: still running...
  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'error'
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × installing build dependencies for django-querycount did not run successfully
.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [7 lines of output]
      WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, 
status=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.urlli
b3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f4ee7d471d0>, 'Connection to pypi.org
 timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/setuptools/
      WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, 
status=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.urlli
b3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f4ee7d477d0>, 'Connection to pypi.org
 timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/setuptools/
      WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, 
status=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.urlli
b3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f4ee7d502d0>, 'Connection to pypi.org
 timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/setuptools/
      WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, 
status=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.urlli
b3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f4ee7d51090>, 'Connection to pypi.org
 timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/setuptools/
      WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, 
status=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.urlli
b3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f4ee7d51d10>, 'Connection to pypi.org
 timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/setuptools/
      ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setuptools>
=40.8.0 (from versions: none)
      ERROR: No matching distribution found for setuptools>=40.8.0
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem wit
h pip.
ERROR: Failed to build 'django-querycount' when installing build dependencies fo
r django-querycount
ERROR: InvenTree command failed: 'pip3 install --no-cache-dir --disable-pip-vers
ion-check -U --require-hashes -r /home/inventree/src/backend/requirements-dev.tx
t'
- Refer to the error messages in the log above for more information

im going to try and look into my network to see if I can see why it wouldnt connect, probably because of company wifi.

[Idea-Junkie]

I just got back from lunch and got this error

Successfully installed pip-26.0 setuptools-80.10.2
Dependency installation complete
# TASK02| done
Installing pre-commit for checks before git commits...
An error has occurred: FatalError: git failed. Is it installed, and are you in a Git repository directory?
Check the log at /home/vscode/.cache/pre-commit/pre-commit.log
ERROR: InvenTree command failed: 'pre-commit install'
- Refer to the error messages in the log above for more information

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[2703769 ms] postCreateCommand from devcontainer.json failed with exit code 1. Skipping any further user-provided commands.

Git is installed so its not that

git version 2.49.0

[Idea-Junkie]

This was in the log file as well

### version information

```
pre-commit version: 4.5.1
git --version: git version 2.52.0
sys.version:
    3.11.14 (main, Jan 13 2026, 06:08:32) [GCC 12.2.0]
sys.executable: /home/inventree/dev/venv/bin/python3
os.name: posix
sys.platform: linux
```

### error information

```
An error has occurred: FatalError: git failed. Is it installed, and are you in a Git repository directory?
```

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pre_commit/git.py", line 58, in get_root
    cmd_output('git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup')[1].strip(),
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pre_commit/util.py", line 117, in cmd_output
    returncode, stdout_b, stderr_b = cmd_output_b(*cmd, **kwargs)
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pre_commit/util.py", line 111, in cmd_output_b
      raise CalledProcessError(returncode, cmd, stdout_b, stderr_b)
pre_commit.util.CalledProcessError: command: ('/usr/local/bin/git', 'rev-parse', '--show-cdup')
return code: 128
stdout: (none)
stderr:
    fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/home/inventree'
    To add an exception for this directory, call:
    
        git config --global --add safe.directory /home/inventree

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pre_commit/error_handler.py", line 73, in error_handler
    yield
  File "/home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pre_commit/main.py", line 383, in main
    _adjust_args_and_chdir(args)
  File "/home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pre_commit/main.py", line 188, in _adjust_args_and_chdir
    toplevel = git.get_root()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/inventree/dev/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pre_commit/git.py", line 64, in get_root
    raise FatalError(
pre_commit.errors.FatalError: git failed. Is it installed, and are you in a Git repository directory?
```

[Idea-Junkie]

im putting this in the dockerfile to see if this helps

RUN git config --global --add safe.directory /home/inventree

maybe its because this isnt a fork and just a clone of the repository? idk seems weird but im new to the whole docker thing and am learning so oh well

[Idea-Junkie]

I just realized it was already in the postCreateCommand.sh file, weird that its failing like that then

[Idea-Junkie]

it works now I believe, going to mess with the UI and everything just to make sure

[Idea-Junkie]

It works now,
how I got to to work was adding this to my Dockerfile

# Install packages required for frontend development
#	This one did not work for me 
# RUN apt install -y nodejs npm

#Install packages required for frontend development, oldest Maintenance LTS 
RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | bash - && apt-get install -y nodejs && node -v

# Update to the latest stable node version
RUN npm install -g n --ignore-scripts && n lts

# Install yarn
RUN npm install -g yarn

learned about nodesource through this handy blog

However I honestly think running it with like

 RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_24.x | bash - && apt-get install -y nodejs && node -v

would work as well but I was just using the oldest Maintenance LTS mentioned on there website https://nodejs.org/en/about/previous-releases
but it may be redundant as when I type node -v it gives me
v24.13.1
because of the update RUN command right after (which I tried to run without at first but didn't go so well so I just added it back and then worked),

also just searched it up and apparently they have this as well which downloads the most recent LTS for nodejs
https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x

Still not understanidng the pre-commit stuff however. maybe doing a sudo apt install pre-commit in the postCreateCommand.sh would do the trick? but uncertain.

[Idea-Junkie]

I'm going to try and verify that this fixes the issues at hand, and then I will try and make my first pull request for you guys to review if you also believe this is a suitable fix!

[Idea-Junkie]

did a PR #11323 that worked for me

I'm still confused about the issues I was having with git but Ill figure that out sometime, thanks everyone for your help! I will probably be taking a look at #11279 sometime this weekend, and definitely monday, I may ask for your guys help on pin pointing some stuff out and where I should add stuff.

Should I change this to Q&A and then close this discussion and open a new one talking about the barcode stuff?

[Idea-Junkie]

I did a clean install on a new laptop and it seemed to work fine, I dont know what was going on with that, but its fixed! Thanks again everyone! Will open a new discussion for the barcode plugin issues.