Immich•2w ago

Failure to install with docker compose

Setup (Docker compose install https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose)

mkdir ./immich-app && cd ./immich-app

mkdir ./immich-app && cd ./immich-app

wget -O docker-compose.yml https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml

wget -O docker-compose.yml https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml

wget -O .env https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/example.env

wget -O .env https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/example.env

docker compose up -d

docker compose up -d

Output:

[+] Running 3/4
 ✔ Container immich_redis             Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_postgres          Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_machine_learning  Run...                                     0.0s 
 ⠋ Container immich_server            Starting                                   0.1s 
Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting "/etc/localtime" to rootfs at "/etc/localtime": create mountpoint for /etc/localtime mount: cannot create subdirectories in "/var/lib/docker/overlay2/3a60c668100ae6c759fb6f6adb99b548779defe3a6a5af28381db93285a81703/merged/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC": not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

[+] Running 3/4
 ✔ Container immich_redis             Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_postgres          Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_machine_learning  Run...                                     0.0s 
 ⠋ Container immich_server            Starting                                   0.1s 
Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting "/etc/localtime" to rootfs at "/etc/localtime": create mountpoint for /etc/localtime mount: cannot create subdirectories in "/var/lib/docker/overlay2/3a60c668100ae6c759fb6f6adb99b548779defe3a6a5af28381db93285a81703/merged/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC": not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

Is there a known solution for this? The install instructions seem straight forward, am I doing something wrong?

13 Replies

Immich•2w ago

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bo0tzz•2w ago

Try removing the /etc/localtime mount from the compose file

lrmOP•2w ago

yeah, thats it Its running

Zeus•2w ago

Are you in alpine or LXC?

lrmOP•2w ago

Arch

Zeus•2w ago

Btw 😉

lrmOP•2w ago

no flex i don't know if other distros have /etc/localtime as a folder, but in arch this is setup as a symlink i might look into this

Zeus•2w ago

I’ve only seen this issue in alpine

Mraedis•2w ago

~# ls -la /etc/localtime 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Aug 28  2024 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels

~# ls -la /etc/localtime 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Aug 28  2024 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels

Proxmox Debian ^

lrmOP•2w ago

weird

~# ls -l /etc/localtime
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 30 18:20 Portugal -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Portugal

~# ls -l /etc/localtime
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 30 18:20 Portugal -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Portugal

Zeus•2w ago

That doesn’t seem like a valid time zone to me Does the target file actually exist?

Mraedis•2w ago

root@atlas:~# ls -la /usr/share/zoneinfo/Portugal 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 26 21:52 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Portugal -> Europe/Lisbon

root@atlas:~# ls -la /usr/share/zoneinfo/Portugal 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 26 21:52 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Portugal -> Europe/Lisbon

It's just a shorthand Portugal is one of the few countries in there :p

Zeus•2w ago

Maybe docker doesn’t like nested sym links

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