# Unable to start algorand and indexer node

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**Created:** [December 7, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/unable-to-start-algorand-and-indexer-node/8459 "2022-12-07T21:48:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/unable-to-start-algorand-and-indexer-node/8459/1 "2022-12-07T21:48:34Z")

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I am having trouble bringing up the sandbox node. I have seen a few other threads on this and they all point to a docker/WSL 2 issue but I’ve followed all the steps to fix that and I’m still getting the same error:  
“”"  
Starting sandbox for: testnet  
see sandbox.log for detailed progress, or use -v.

- docker containers started!
- waiting for services to initialize.  
the following did not start:
- algorand node
- indexer node  
One or more services failed to start.  
“”"

heres the output of sandbox.log:

- docker compose up -d

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Creating

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Creating

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Created

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Created

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Creating

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Created

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Starting

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Starting

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Started

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Started

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Starting

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Started

- docker compose up -d

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Creating

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Creating

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Created

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Created

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Creating

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Created

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Starting

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Starting

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Started

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Started

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Starting

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Started

.clean file NOT FOUND. Sandbox images will NOT be rebuilt.

- docker compose up -d

Container algorand-sandbox-algod Running

Container algorand-sandbox-postgres Running

Container algorand-sandbox-indexer Running

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