Unable to start Immich after Docker restart or update
Recently, whenever I update or restart Docker on Windows, Immich fails to start and continuously restarts.
Each time this happens, I have to restore the database to get it running again.
Below are the logs from the latest Docker for Windows update. The same issue occurs if Docker is closed and restarted or if there is a power failure that causes Docker to restart.
Restoring a previous database shouldn't be the only solution every time. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
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Successfully submitted, a tag has been added to inform contributors. :white_check_mark:Can you post the logs as normal plain text?
And also your .env file please
I don't see any obvious clues, but even before the bad restart there's a whole bunch of things being unhappy about the storage, and bad storage would also explain the database getting messed up
Docker on windows is also generally just unreliable; tbh if you have the option I'd recommend not using it but going for Linux directly instead
Looks like it was running out of space and started restarting
Which aspect of Docker on Windows is unreliable?
Would be nice if there was a way Immich could report when disk space is running low?
I’ve created a new instance and seems to be running again. Guess that is one of the pros of using an external library 📚
The windows aspect :p