# Sandbox fails to complete initialization on testnet -- it doesn't even try to "fast-catchup." Can anybody help?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/sandbox-fails-to-complete-initialization-on-testnet-it-doesnt-even-try-to-fast-catchup-can-anybody-help/5800 "2022-01-20T18:55:05Z")\
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When I launch sandbox with ./sandbox up testnet, instead of getting the expected “Indexer disabled for this configuration,” I get this:

```auto
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container
 process caused: exec: "cmd/algorand-indexer/algorand-indexer": stat cmd/algorand-indexer/algoran
d-indexer: no such file or directory: unknown

```

**and there is no "fast-catchup."**

The version information returned is

```auto
Version: [v1 v2] 
GenesisID: testnet-v1.0 
Build: 3.2.3.stable [rel/stable] (commit #d2289a52)

```

I looked at the config.testnet file, and it shows:

```auto
export ALGOD_CHANNEL="stable"
export ALGOD_URL=""
export ALGOD_BRANCH=""
export ALGOD_SHA=""
export NETWORK="testnet"
export NETWORK_BOOTSTRAP_URL="<network>.algorand.network"
export NETWORK_GENESIS_FILE="genesis/testnet/genesis.json"
export INDEXER_URL=""
export INDEXER_BRANCH=""
export INDEXER_SHA=""
export INDEXER_DISABLED="true"

```

It continues to do this after doing “./sandbox reset” and “./sandbox clean” repeatedly.

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