# Nakama says "fatal" but it's still running

**URL:** <https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/nakama-says-fatal-but-its-still-running/1112>\
**Category:** Local Setup\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/nakama-says-fatal-but-its-still-running/1112 "2020-11-06T14:39:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SirBuildsALot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.heroiclabs.com/sirbuildsalot/32/375_2.png) [@SirBuildsALot](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/SirBuildsALot)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/nakama-says-fatal-but-its-still-running/1112/1 "2020-11-06T14:39:57Z")

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When I was working on running CockroachDB in secure mode nakama gave me this error

```auto
nakama | {"level":"fatal","ts":"2020-11-06T14:27:45.072Z","caller":"migrate/migrate.go:147","msg":"Error pinging database","error":"dial tcp 172.18.0.3:26257: connect: connection refused"}

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but it never stopped running, and my game is able to connect to the server just fine?  
Can someone tell me what this means, or am I just able to ignore it?

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**Author:** ![novabyte](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.heroiclabs.com/novabyte/32/1324_2.png) [@novabyte](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/novabyte)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/nakama-says-fatal-but-its-still-running/1112/2 "2020-11-06T15:31:53Z")

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@SirBuildsALot You’re able to ignore it. What happens is that the server and database containers start and if the game server starts first it will attempt to connect to the database which is not ready to receive connections yet. This will cause the game server to indicate the “connection refused” error above. Then the container will restart to try again and unless there’s a separate problem then it will succeed in connecting because the database server will be ready by then.

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**Author:** ![SirBuildsALot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.heroiclabs.com/sirbuildsalot/32/375_2.png) [@SirBuildsALot](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/u/SirBuildsALot)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/nakama-says-fatal-but-its-still-running/1112/3 "2020-11-06T15:41:47Z")

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Oh okay, thanks for the info.