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Immich•4w ago
Nikodemus

Container Start Error at first initialization attempt

I am currently trying to install immich on Ubuntu Server. My docker version is 27.5.1. The machine learning, redis containers start up and enter a "healthy" state, postgress stays "running" while the immich server itself continues to stay "starting". The volumes are mapped to a mount point on my NAS. Docker had the rights to create the specified subfolder itself. The Immich Server logs repeat the following indefinitely 
Initializing Immich v1.131.3
Detected CPU Cores: 4
Starting api worker
Starting microservices worker

[Nest] 7  - 04/02/2025, 3:13:21 PM     LOG [Microservices:EventRepository] Initialized websocket server

microservices worker error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace'), stack: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace')
    at queryError (/usr/src/app/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:389:48)
    at errored (/usr/src/app/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:384:17)
    at Socket.error (/usr/src/app/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:376:5)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:170:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)

microservices worker exited with code 1
Killing api process
Initializing Immich v1.131.3
Detected CPU Cores: 4
Starting api worker
Starting microservices worker

[Nest] 7  - 04/02/2025, 3:13:21 PM     LOG [Microservices:EventRepository] Initialized websocket server

microservices worker error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace'), stack: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace')
    at queryError (/usr/src/app/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:389:48)
    at errored (/usr/src/app/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:384:17)
    at Socket.error (/usr/src/app/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:376:5)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:170:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)

microservices worker exited with code 1
Killing api process
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?
9 Replies
Immich
Immich•4w ago
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Nikodemus
NikodemusOP•4w ago
The postgress container logs repeat everything apart from the first paragraph 
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Operation not permitted
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

Data page checksums are enabled.

initdb: error: could not change permissions of directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data": Operation not permitted
fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Operation not permitted
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Operation not permitted
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

Data page checksums are enabled.

initdb: error: could not change permissions of directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data": Operation not permitted
fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... chmod: changing permissions of '/var/lib/postgresql/data': Operation not permitted
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process
The used yaml is unchanged. The env holds: 
/home/<user>/nas_share/libraries/gallery
/home/<user>/nas_share/appdata/immich
/home/<user>/nas_share/libraries/gallery
/home/<user>/nas_share/appdata/immich
The db password has no special caracters anymore since https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/15353 advised against that. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/16054 seems similar but restarting was no solution yet
schuhbacca
schuhbacca•4w ago
Are you mounting the DB on the NAS as well? Your db can't write to wherever it is set too
Nikodemus
NikodemusOP•4w ago
nas_share is the mount point yes. That's why I specified that docker was able to make the subdirectory just fine. Should the yaml be changed from the default when using network shares in the cifs standard?
schuhbacca
schuhbacca•4w ago
You shouldn't use a network share for the DB. It's bound to cause issues
Nikodemus
NikodemusOP•4w ago
Hmmm, what sizes does the DB grow to?
schuhbacca
schuhbacca•4w ago
< 10 GB for a normal to large instance
Mraedis
Mraedis•4w ago
It grows with your assets mine is 3 GiB for 140k assets/550GiB
Nikodemus
NikodemusOP•4w ago
Huh, that seems to have done the trick. Thank you so much!

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