Make serve crashes quickly

[nharper]

Sometimes I can load index.html (with no css or script) before it fails; sometimes I get ERR_EMPTY_DATA on the page load.

$ make serve
PASS: Current directory is in $GOPATH.
git rev-parse HEAD > ./frontend/version
go run *.go -local
Setting up local database... checking database connection... done.
Serving from: http://localhost:8080
panic: Metadata fetch failed for 'instance/attributes/gae_project': Get http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/gae_project: dial tcp: lookup metadata on 127.0.0.1:53: no such host

goroutine 139 [running]:
google.golang.org/appengine/internal.mustGetMetadata(0xb5681f, 0x1f, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/metadata.go:34 +0x18a
google.golang.org/appengine/internal.partitionlessAppID(0x0, 0xc0002b6600)
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/identity_vm.go:112 +0xa2
google.golang.org/appengine/internal.DefaultTicket.func1()
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/api.go:293 +0x86
sync.(*Once).Do(0x10c52b8, 0xb77c90)
        /usr/lib/google-golang/src/sync/once.go:44 +0xb3
google.golang.org/appengine/internal.DefaultTicket(0xc0002b4cc0, 0xa35020)
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/api.go:288 +0x39
google.golang.org/appengine/internal.Call(0xbef840, 0xc0002b4cc0, 0xb48df7, 0xa, 0xb446af, 0x5, 0xbed900, 0xc0002b6600, 0xbecb00, 0xc0002a8aa0, ...)
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/api.go:495 +0x852
google.golang.org/appengine/internal.(*context).flushLog(0xc0002738c0, 0xb78601, 0xc00003f500)
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/api.go:637 +0x3c7
google.golang.org/appengine/internal.handleHTTP.func1(0xc00003f500, 0xc0002738c0)
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/api.go:137 +0x56
created by google.golang.org/appengine/internal.handleHTTP
        /usr/local/google/home/nharper/gocode/src/google.golang.org/appengine/internal/api.go:133 +0x350
exit status 2
Makefile:71: recipe for target 'serve' failed
make: *** [serve] Error 1

[lgarron]

Hmm, I'm sorry, I don't recall having an issue with this before. :-/