I am trying to run n8n locally, but once the build is complete, start the dev server and open the browser its unresponsive, and shows “page is unresponsive” . I even tried running it inside a container but same issue

Ok them, now it’s clear. If you managed to get it working but have problems to access, try reset credentials: n8n user-management:reset Or docker : docker exec -u node -it n8n user-management:reset Then restart your instance.

Hey @Muhammad-Owais-Warsi ! How did you installed it? Npm /Docker? Can you show some images with what you see?

I’m currently on wsl. Using docker I ran the container with the commands given in the setup readme. docker volume create n8n_data docker run -it --rm --name n8n -p 5678:5678 -v n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n These are the logs [Screenshot 2025-11-30 010423] After this when I o…

Here are the logs when I try running with npx n8n owais@DESKTOP-CFHRO0C:/mnt/c/Users/Muhammad Owais Warsi$ npx n8n Permissions 0644 for n8n settings file /home/owais/.n8n/config are too wide. This is ignored for now, but in the future n8n will attempt to change the permissions automatically. To aut…

For now I cant even start n8n, so this is not what I need for now

[image] Muhammad-Owais-Warsi: Editor is now accessible via: http://localhost:5678 Press "o" to open in Browser. From the n8n logs I see that the instance started just with some warnings that shouldn’t affect the UI. What is your problem actually?

The issue is, when I open up the instance on the browser, the ui never render, even if it renders its unresponsive I cant even able to open console.

Even if you clear caches or open the page from a incognito tab? If not, clear all images from Docker, start again as in docs, the enter this command: ‘docker ps’ So to be sure everything starts and points to the right path. Tell as well with version are you installing.

I tried opening it in incognito and it works, but was not updating on code changes. So I cloned the repo again and build it from scratch, but now even the build gets failed :smiling_face_with_tear:

Cannot run n8n cloned repo locally WSL

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moosa November 29, 2025, 8:07pm 3

I would suggest following this tutorial:

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Cannot run n8n cloned repo locally WSL

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