Can't get `immich-server` container to run unfortunately..
Heya guys.. I can't get Immich to work :/
I am on TrueNAS but has the Dockge app installed to manage all my Docker stuff through that..
As you can see on the screenshot, I get some password authentication Postgres error.. I have tried a couple of times to delete the whole stack and also the data in the dataset that the database is mounted to - also deleting the volumes that is being created, so I am pretty lost now.
Any recommendations to get up and running? 🙂
compose file (just standard):
.env (managed by Dockge):

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This just keeps going forever
Do you happen to have other postgres containers?
Not directly - and I am not sure if other containers could do it by themselves? Still kind of new to Docker.
I have attached images of the other two stacks I have running.
Are there any way to know if any of them does something with Postgres?


And thank you for helping 🎉
Could you perhaps try setting the password back to the default
Yes - do you know if it's enough to just delete all the content in the postgres dataset in TrueNAS? Or do I have to delete and recreate the dataset itself?

Just thought I would clean it up also before trying to run it again
and what about volumes? Does it matter?
Wait, I think just changing the password back to postgres worked
(Also did delete the files)
😅
Thank you buddy. Any idea why that made it break? (and should I change it some other way then?)
Thank you buddy. Any idea why that made it break? (and should I change it some other way then?)

I guess it's not safe to keep the default password?
It's fine unless you port forward your postgres for some reason
I did not mean delete the database though 🙂
But what I wanted to test here was likely that the password was set, the database started, and then the password changed
My Immich service is gonna be accessible public via Cloudflare Tunnels - so could that be a potential problem? Or are they running seperated? 🙂
And yeah okay - it's weird though, because I had not run/deployed it before changing all the options 🧐
Seperate
Okay great - guess that's it then. Thank you 🎉
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