Immich•4mo ago

devcontainer setup failing on MacOS + VSCode

Hello there,
I'm unable to launch the devcontainer environment.
To reproduce:

open vsc
go to dev container extension
click on "+"
click on "clone repository in container volume"
click on "clone from GitHub repo in a container volume"
select immich-app/immich repo
select main branch
wait

expect the error (not pasting all):

[immich-server dev-container-server 1/5] RUN apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change &&   apt-get install sudo inetutils-ping openjdk-11-jre-headless   vim nano   -y --no-install-recommends --fix-missing:
0.220 Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [140 kB]
0.267 Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB]
...
2.970 Package openjdk-11-jre-headless is not available, but is referred to by another package.
2.970 This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
2.970 is only available from another source
2.970 
2.971 E: Package 'openjdk-11-jre-headless' has no installation candidate

[immich-server dev-container-server 1/5] RUN apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change &&   apt-get install sudo inetutils-ping openjdk-11-jre-headless   vim nano   -y --no-install-recommends --fix-missing:
0.220 Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [140 kB]
0.267 Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB]
...
2.970 Package openjdk-11-jre-headless is not available, but is referred to by another package.
2.970 This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
2.970 is only available from another source
2.970 
2.971 E: Package 'openjdk-11-jre-headless' has no installation candidate

[immich-server dev-container-server 1/5] RUN apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change &&   apt-get install sudo inetutils-ping openjdk-11-jre-headless   vim nano   -y --no-install-recommends --fix-missing:
0.220 Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [140 kB]
0.267 Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB]
...
2.970 Package openjdk-11-jre-headless is not available, but is referred to by another package.
2.970 This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
2.970 is only available from another source
2.970 
2.971 E: Package 'openjdk-11-jre-headless' has no installation candidate

[immich-server dev-container-server 1/5] RUN apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change &&   apt-get install sudo inetutils-ping openjdk-11-jre-headless   vim nano   -y --no-install-recommends --fix-missing:
0.220 Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [140 kB]
0.267 Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB]
...
2.970 Package openjdk-11-jre-headless is not available, but is referred to by another package.
2.970 This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
2.970 is only available from another source
2.970 
2.971 E: Package 'openjdk-11-jre-headless' has no installation candidate

Then it tries to stop the stack but it continue failing:

Error: Command failed: docker compose --project-name immich-dev -f /workspaces/immich-official/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml -f /workspaces/immich-official/.devcontainer/server/container-compose-overrides.yml -f /tmp/devcontainercli-root/docker-compose/docker-compose.devcontainer.build-1757793751332.yml build immich-server redis database immich-machine-learning init

Error: Command failed: docker compose --project-name immich-dev -f /workspaces/immich-official/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml -f /workspaces/immich-official/.devcontainer/server/container-compose-overrides.yml -f /tmp/devcontainercli-root/docker-compose/docker-compose.devcontainer.build-1757793751332.yml build immich-server redis database immich-machine-learning init

Error: Command failed: docker compose --project-name immich-dev -f /workspaces/immich-official/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml -f /workspaces/immich-official/.devcontainer/server/container-compose-overrides.yml -f /tmp/devcontainercli-root/docker-compose/docker-compose.devcontainer.build-1757793751332.yml build immich-server redis database immich-machine-learning init

Error: Command failed: docker compose --project-name immich-dev -f /workspaces/immich-official/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml -f /workspaces/immich-official/.devcontainer/server/container-compose-overrides.yml -f /tmp/devcontainercli-root/docker-compose/docker-compose.devcontainer.build-1757793751332.yml build immich-server redis database immich-machine-learning init

Do you have any idea to fix that ?
I'm able to execute docker & docker compose commands from inside the devcontainer

Immich•9/13/25, 8:07 PM

:wave: Hey @Chuckame,

Thanks for reaching out to us. Please carefully read this message and follow the recommended actions. This will help us be more effective in our support effort and leave more time for building Immich :immich:.

References

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Immich•9/13/25, 8:07 PM

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IImmich ## Checklist I have... 1. :ballot_box_with_check: verified I'm on the latest rel...

ImmichAPP•9/13/25, 8:08 PM

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ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:09 PM

This is not about the usage setup, but the dev setup*

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:17 PM

Same error using local clone + "Dev Containers: Rebuild and Reopen in Container"

Sergey Katsubo•9/13/25, 8:20 PM

As a quick fix: remove openjdk-11-jre-headlessopenjdk-11-jre-headless from the Dockerfile or replace it with openjdk-21-jre-headlessopenjdk-21-jre-headless. Actually java is needed only for make open-apimake open-api

Currently open PR https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/21840

SSergey Katsubo As a quick fix: remove `openjdk-11-jre-headless` from the Dockerfile or replace ...

Immich•9/13/25, 8:20 PM

[Pull Request] fix(server): fix devcontainer JRE installation in Trixie (immich-app/immich#21840)

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:21 PM

Its going further!

Sergey Katsubo•9/13/25, 8:22 PM

see if you encounter "curl not found" later when starting up the frontend

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:26 PM

devcontainers fixed! But...

ERROR [Microservices:DatabaseRepository] Migrations failed: Error: Invalid upgrade path. For more information, see https://immich.app/errors#typeorm-upgrade

ERROR [Microservices:DatabaseRepository] Migrations failed: Error: Invalid upgrade path. For more information, see https://immich.app/errors#typeorm-upgrade

Another issue now

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:27 PM

I'm going to try out from a very fresh git clone

Sergey Katsubo•9/13/25, 8:27 PM

Huh, seems you haven't run devcontainers for a while

Sergey Katsubo•9/13/25, 8:27 PM

Or purge ./library./library and ./postgres./postgres

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:32 PM

Haha, sure! Last time was months ago to try adding the auto-rotate feature. Since that time, too much professional stuff... I wiped all (networks, volumes, images, containers, git repo).

NOW it's straight from scratch !!

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:41 PM

ERROR [Microservices:StorageService] Failed to create /data/encoded-video/.immich: Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/data/encoded-video'

ERROR [Microservices:StorageService] Failed to create /data/encoded-video/.immich: Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/data/encoded-video'

Probably the common docker issue

I have orbStack which fix the colima issue

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:45 PM

chown -R 1000:1000 datachown -R 1000:1000 data fixed it

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:48 PM

Another error

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND redis

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND redis

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:49 PM

Restarted containers manually, now I had your curl: command not foundcurl: command not found @Sergey Katsubo

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:50 PM

sudo apt install curlsudo apt install curl fixed it

ChuckameOP•9/13/25, 8:50 PM

Here I am!!!

Sergey Katsubo•9/13/25, 9:01 PM

~~Fury~~ Bumpy road to contributing :dogekek:

ChuckameOP•9/14/25, 7:52 AM

Yay!

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