[BUG]: Unable to set up the devcontainer

[mani-builds]

Is this a duplicate?

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Type of Bug

Something else

Component

Infrastructure

Describe the bug

Hey, I'm currently looking to contribute to CCCL, but I couldn't set the devcontainer mentioned here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/blob/main/.devcontainer/README.md

I am on Linux and tried both with and without VSCode. Both of these gave me this error:

docker: 'docker volume create' requires at most 1 argument

This is the issue with the 'launch.sh' script itself in the '.devcontainer' directory.

How to Reproduce

0. Install 'docker'
1. Clone the repository and use the [launch.sh] script to launch the default container environment.
   git clone https://github.com/nvidia/cccl.git cd cccl ./.devcontainer/launch.sh --docker

Expected behavior

This script should start an interactive shell as the coder user inside the container with the local cccl/ directory mirrored into /home/coder/cccl

Reproduction link

No response

Operating System

Fedora Linux

nvidia-smi output

Note that I do not have an NVIDIA GPU on my system.

NVCC version

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2025 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_Aug_20_01:58:59_PM_PDT_2025
Cuda compilation tools, release 13.0, V13.0.88
Build cuda_13.0.r13.0/compiler.36424714_0

[github-actions]

Hi @mani-builds!

Thanks for submitting this issue - the CCCL team has been notified and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!
In the mean time, feel free to add any relevant information to this issue.

[alliepiper]

Hey there, the devcontainers should work, most of us use them daily and I've asked around, but no one has seen this particular error before. We'd like to figure out what's happening here.

What version of docker are you using? Maybe that'll help track down the issue.

[mani-builds]

Hello, thanks for your reply. This is my docker's version: Docker version 29.0.4, build 3247a5a

[alliepiper]

That should be fine. What is the host-side path where you've checked out CCCL? I notice that our devcontainer launch logic might have issues if there are spaces / special characters in the path.

[alliepiper]

If you get a chance, try out the changes here: #6886

Let us know if that works, or if the error message changes.

[mani-builds]

You were right @alliepiper, I changed my path from ~/File_synchronizer/Machine Learning/CUDA/Open_Source/cccl to ~/File_synchronizer/Machine_Learning/CUDA/Open_Source/cccl and it worked.