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Immich4mo ago
Ric

Changing ownership of '/var/lib/postgresql/data' fails in immich_postgres

After the initial setup (both with install script and docker compose), immich_postgres fails with this error on a fedora machine:
find: ‘/var/lib/postgresql/data’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
find: ‘/var/lib/postgresql/data’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
find: ‘/var/lib/postgresql/data’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
find: ‘/var/lib/postgresql/data’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
find: ‘/var/lib/postgresql/data’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
find: ‘/var/lib/postgresql/data’: Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Permission denied
Saw that many have a similar issue, but I can't find a fix for it
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Immich4mo ago
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Immich
Immich4mo ago
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schuhbacca
schuhbacca4mo ago
What is the Filesystem the DB is located on?
Ric
RicOP4mo ago
is that a config in .env? it is btrfs
schuhbacca
schuhbacca4mo ago
The filesystem that the postgres data folder is pointed too. Just validating it's not NTFS or something along those lines
Ric
RicOP4mo ago
then it is btrfs
schuhbacca
schuhbacca4mo ago
What are you hosting this on?
Zeus
Zeus4mo ago
This is probably some appsec or similar fedora hardening Seccomp etc
Ric
RicOP4mo ago
on a fedora machine fedora workstation
Zeus
Zeus4mo ago
You can try seccomp: unconfined or similar but this won’t be an immich issue Either your filesystem or OS / docker
Ric
RicOP4mo ago
what am i supposed to do?
Zeus
Zeus4mo ago
This is something you need to handle on the fedora side Fedora is a rather hardened enterprise OS. so if you’re using it, it would be expected you know how to whitelist the appropriate syscslls for docker I would recommend doing some googling
Ric
RicOP4mo ago
i'll try then setenforce to 0 seemed to work but it may not be the best idea
Zeus
Zeus4mo ago
That’s up to you, I’m sure you can do more fine grained stuff and trial and error with each container
Ric
RicOP4mo ago
yeah i'll try it later, but at least now immich works

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