Installed crowdsec on a pristine Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 LTS machine and ran into an issue when running cscli dashboard setup. Included some information that will hopefully be useful.
% sudo cscli dashboard setup
INFO[15-09-2021 05:14:01 PM] Pulling docker image metabase/metabase:v0.37.0.2
...
INFO[15-09-2021 05:14:02 PM] creating container 'crowdsec-metabase'
FATA[15-09-2021 05:14:02 PM] container create: failed to create container : Error response from daemon: invalid mount config for type "bind": bind source path does not exist: /var/lib/crowdsec/data
I manually modified permissions on the /var/lib/crowdsec/data directory after the problem initially occurred.
% ls -lsah /var/lib/crowdsec
total 12K
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 15 00:37 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 46 root root 4.0K Sep 15 00:37 ..
4.0K drwxrwxr-x 3 root crowdsec 4.0K Sep 15 17:15 data
Crowdsec version information
% crowdsec --version
2021/09/15 17:19:14 version: v1.2.0-debian-pragmatic-0ecfe7568790a15791011da27eb24e96e7d4a39f
2021/09/15 17:19:14 Codename: alphaga
2021/09/15 17:19:14 BuildDate: 2021-09-14_15:15:36
2021/09/15 17:19:14 GoVersion: 1.16.7
2021/09/15 17:19:14 Constraint_parser: >= 1.0, <= 2.0
2021/09/15 17:19:14 Constraint_scenario: >= 1.0, < 3.0
2021/09/15 17:19:14 Constraint_api: v1
2021/09/15 17:19:14 Constraint_acquis: >= 1.0, < 2.0
OS Information
% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
Docker version
% docker --version
Docker version 20.10.8, build 3967b7d28e
thank you very much for the detailed report, I’ll try to reproduce 
Hello,
Surprisingly I was not able to reproduce :
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/crowdsec/crowdsec/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
apt install crowdsec
cscli dashboard setup
But I have similar environment to yours :
docker --version
Docker version 20.10.7, build 20.10.7-0ubuntu1~20.04.1
lsb_release
No LSB modules are available.
The /var/lib/crowdsec/data/ should be created by the package configuration : crowdsec/postinst at 9b5cb6abc9c3bae19c9c53f0b7a0f8834be64ad5 · crowdsecurity/crowdsec · GitHub
Can you tell me how you installed it ?
I used the following commands (I think these were straight from the website).
$ curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/crowdsec/crowdsec/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
$ sudo apt-get install crowdsec
Then I installed a bouncer
$ sudo apt install crowdsec-firewall-bouncer-iptables
The only other things that I did differently were changing the dashboard port from 8080 to 9090 and the listen address from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 (my machine is behind another firewall and only receives a single port forward from the outside world).
Hello @jfilling ,
Can you paste us the output of the sudo apt-get install crowdsec if you can reproduce this behavior please?
I figured out what was going wrong and I really should have noticed it sooner.
Because I already have port 8080 in use on my machines, the crowdsec service doesn’t actually get started after installation. I had to edit the 2 configuration files to change port 8080 to something else, and then start the crowdsec service.
Ran into the same issue for the crowdsec-firewall-bouncer-iptables installation. It failed on initial install due to port 8080 being used, and I had to edit the config file to fix the port 8080 issue, then reinstall the package.
Apologies for the noise.
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