Docker-compose failing on startup - docker-compose

Question

I am running
docker-compose version 1.25.4, build 8d51620a
on
OS X Catalina, v10.15.4 (19E266)
I am using the system python.
When I run docker-compose, it crashes with the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
File "compose/cli/main.py", line 72, in main
File "compose/cli/main.py", line 128, in perform_command
File "compose/cli/main.py", line 1077, in up
File "compose/cli/main.py", line 1073, in up
File "compose/project.py", line 548, in up
File "compose/service.py", line 355, in ensure_image_exists
File "compose/service.py", line 381, in image
File "site-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py", line 17, in wrapped
docker.errors.NullResource: Resource ID was not provided
[9018] Failed to execute script docker-compose
I have tried a fresh repo clone and a fresh install of docker, neither work. What could be causing this?

Answer 1

It turned out that I had uninitialized environment variables that were causing the crash.
The particular cause was the env vars setting image names in the docker-compose file and then trying to pull a blank image.

Answer 2

It can be initialized environment variables but for my case, it was some other command before docker-compose build which was failing.
I was pulling images from the registry but it could not find them/

Answer 3

I've seen this error when passing docker-compose files explicitly and omitting one. e.g.
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up # fails
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.override.yml up # works

Answer 4

I faced with the same issue.
In my case, it was different.
I had 2 docker-compose files:
docker-compose.yml
version: "3"
networks:
web: {}
docker-compose.development.yml
version: "3"
services:
web:
image: ""
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
environment:
API_URL: http://example.com/api
ports:
- "11000:22000"
networks:
- web
restart: on-failure
The problem was from image property in docker-compose.development.yml file.
When I removed it & ran the below command:
docker-compose --project-name my-web -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.development.yml up --detach
It was successful.
This is the new docker-compose.development.yml file:
version: "3"
services:
web:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
environment:
API_URL: http://example.com/api
ports:
- "11000:22000"
networks:
- web
restart: on-failure