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The bugI tried joining the Discord but they insisted I provide a phone number and I don't want to share my phone number with Discord. This is my first foray with anything related to "Docker" so please keep that in mind when offering any guidance, your patience is appreciated. Thank you in advance for your attention. I followed the recommended "Docker Compose" installation in the documentation and everything seemed to be ok on the surface, but when I attempted to browse http://my.pc.ip:2283/, the connection timed out / reset. Here are the steps I performed: I noticed eb0c714ca78e-infra was Created but not started: So I started it with This is where I observed "immich_redis" and "immich_postgres" remain "Starting" and it appears as though "immich_server" keeps restarting as the uptime is never more than 2-3 seconds. I found this in postgres/log/postgresql-2024-06-27_212859.log: And that's been my experience with Docker and Immich thus far. I'm not sure where else to look log wise. Is there a way to run Immich without using Docker? This has been quite the headache trying to figure all this out - as an old gray beard I don't particularly see the advantage of "containerizing" everything. Specifically, I don't understand why it's necessary to have 2 instances of postgres running, one outside and one inside a "container" - it seems superfluous. Pardon my ignorance or if I'm misunderstanding how all this works. In my old brain putting the files in /var/www/immich, editing nginx.conf and setting up the postgres connection details in a conf file just seems like it'd be easier. The OS that Immich Server is running onGentoo Linux 2.15 Kernel 6.6.30-gentoo-x86_64 Version of Immich ServerI Don't Know, The Latest Stable? Version of Immich Mobile Appn/a Platform with the issue
Your docker-compose.yml content#
# WARNING: Make sure to use the docker-compose.yml of the current release:
#
# https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml
#
# The compose file on main may not be compatible with the latest release.
#
name: immich
services:
immich-server:
container_name: immich_server
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
# extends:
# file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
# service: cpu # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
volumes:
- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
env_file:
- .env
ports:
- 2283:3001
depends_on:
- redis
- database
restart: always
immich-machine-learning:
container_name: immich_machine_learning
# For hardware acceleration, add one of -[armnn, cuda, openvino] to the image tag.
# Example tag: ${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}-cuda
image: ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:${IMMICH_VERSION:-release}
# extends: # uncomment this section for hardware acceleration - see https://immich.app/docs/features/ml-hardware-acceleration
# file: hwaccel.ml.yml
# service: cpu # set to one of [armnn, cuda, openvino, openvino-wsl] for accelerated inference - use the `-wsl` version for WSL2 where applicable
volumes:
- model-cache:/cache
env_file:
- .env
restart: always
redis:
container_name: immich_redis
image: docker.io/redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:d6c2911ac51b289db208767581a5d154544f2b2fe4914ea5056443f62dc6e900
healthcheck:
test: redis-cli ping || exit 1
restart: always
database:
container_name: immich_postgres
image: docker.io/tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0@sha256:90724186f0a3517cf6914295b5ab410db9ce23190a2d9d0b9dd6463e3fa298f0
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_DATABASE_NAME}
POSTGRES_INITDB_ARGS: '--data-checksums'
volumes:
- ${DB_DATA_LOCATION}:/var/lib/postgresql/data
healthcheck:
test: pg_isready --dbname='${DB_DATABASE_NAME}' || exit 1; Chksum="$$(psql --dbname='${DB_DATABASE_NAME}' --username='${DB_USERNAME}' --tuples-only --no-align --command='SELECT COALESCE(SUM(checksum_failures), 0) FROM pg_stat_database')"; echo "checksum failure count is $$Chksum"; [ "$$Chksum" = '0' ] || exit 1
interval: 5m
start_interval: 30s
start_period: 5m
command: ["postgres", "-c" ,"shared_preload_libraries=vectors.so", "-c", 'search_path="$$user", public, vectors', "-c", "logging_collector=on", "-c", "max_wal_size=2GB", "-c", "shared_buffers=512MB", "-c", "wal_compression=on"]
restart: always
volumes:
model-cache:Your .env content# You can find documentation for all the supported env variables at https://immich.app/docs/install/environment-variables
# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/zpool/images/immich
# The location where your database files are stored
DB_DATA_LOCATION=./postgres
# To set a timezone, uncomment the next line and change Etc/UTC to a TZ identifier from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List
# TZ=Etc/UTC
TZ=America/New_York
# The Immich version to use. You can pin this to a specific version like "v1.71.0"
IMMICH_VERSION=release
# Connection secret for postgres. You should change it to a random password
DB_PASSWORD=postgres
# The values below this line do not need to be changed
###################################################################################
DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_DATABASE_NAME=immichReproduction steps1. docker compose up -d
2. try to access my.pc.ip:2283 on my PC
3. connection failedRelevant log outputNo response Additional informationNo response |
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You don’t need to install Postgres outside Docker. Did you do that yourself? Can you run the command |
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That random unstarted container (podman?) is not related to Immich. Are you using Podman or Docker? |
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I didn't install Postgres outside of Docker exclusively for the purposes of running Immich, I use it for other applications unrelated to Immich.
Sure, here's the output (keeps repeating this same error). This line is interesting, "permission denied, mkdir 'upload/library'". I specified "/mnt/zpool/images/immich" as the UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file. |
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Podman, yes. While researching and learning about Docker I got the impression it was a less bloated (20MB vs 200MB download) and more secure drop in replacement for Docker. Are there features missing from Podman that make it incompatible with Immich? |
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@nullagit There shouldn't be any compatibility issues as Immich wasn't using any special Docker features last time I checked. I've been running Immich under Docker on Gentoo for a while, but a friend of mine switched to Podman and I'm planning on doing the same. He mentioned Podman Compose, a drop-in equivalent to Docker Compose. From what he's said Podman is definitely more lightweight and secure, but I haven't had any experience with it. |
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You don't need to use the builtin postgres - you can use the one you already have. It requires more work but you seem comfortable with that. https://immich.app/docs/administration/postgres-standalone/ The error Podman might work? There are various guides floating around but it might work drop in: https://github.com/tbelway/immich-podman-quadlets/blob/main/docs/install/podman-quadlet.md |
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Embarrassingly, that did the trick, the app is running and I can reach the interface via http. Thank you! I set ownership of the folder to "immich:immich" and permissions 700. Changing to 777 allowed the app to start. Thank you very much for all your help - I should not have wasted your time with such a silly issue. |
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No worries, it happens to the best of us. Good luck! |
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As to why we can't just drop it into /var/www, such installers do exist, they tend to be finnicky because Immich depends on a lot of large image processing and ML libraries. It's possible but usually results in more work. More details, start here #1657 |
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I am having the same issue, but my output is log output is different:
I used to have immich working well in my home server. Now, I cannot access it. I reinstalled but get this. Any help is appreciated. |
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Hi @prguy1985 Is the database running? Try this command: |
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Here it goes:
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Just a guess, but looks like it isn't running? The "Restarting (1) 35 seconds ago" is what I'm basing that on. You could try: Outside of that, I'm not sure. Hopefully someone with more knowledgeable will be able to assist. |
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Yea it stays stuck at restarting. |
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You don't need to use the builtin postgres - you can use the one you already have. It requires more work but you seem comfortable with that. https://immich.app/docs/administration/postgres-standalone/
The error
permission denied, mkdir 'upload/libraryis pretty clear - the permissions on /mnt/zpool/images/immich are not allowing Immich to create a folder. Try setting 777 perms to start and see if that works. If not, you might need to explicitly grant mkdir permissions through Podman - Docker allows this by default, I thought Podman does as well but not 100% surePodman might work? There are various guides floating around but it might work drop in: https://github.com/tbelway/immich-podman-…