Immich•4w ago•

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Immich is failing to start; Postgres is stuck in "the database is starting up" error loop

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Immich has been running successfully on my OpenMediaVault server for several months; however, just as of this morning, I've started encountering serious issues. Navigating to my Immich instance URL gives a 502 Bad Gateway, and looking at the Docker Compose logs for

immich_postgres

immich_postgres

, I see a loop of these errors:

immich_postgres  | 2026-02-25 21:22:09.058 UTC [711] FATAL:  the database system is starting up

immich_postgres  | 2026-02-25 21:22:09.058 UTC [711] FATAL:  the database system is starting up

Without a running Postgres, the

immich-server

immich-server

service can't start properly.

I have not made any recent changes to my system or to Immich.

System Details

* Operating System: OpenMediaVault 7.7.13-1 (Sandworm)
* Immich version: 2.3.1

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.2G  6.7M  3.2G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  116G   66G   44G  61% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
efivarfs        128K   15K  109K  13% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  148K  511M   1% /boot/efi
tmpfs            16G  1.9G   14G  12% /tmp
akhet           3.6T  1.1T  2.6T  31% /akhet

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.2G  6.7M  3.2G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  116G   66G   44G  61% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
efivarfs        128K   15K  109K  13% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  148K  511M   1% /boot/efi
tmpfs            16G  1.9G   14G  12% /tmp
akhet           3.6T  1.1T  2.6T  31% /akhet

Other Notes

The

postgres

postgres

directory specified by

DB_DATA_LOCATION=${VOLUMES_PATH}/immich/postgres

DB_DATA_LOCATION=${VOLUMES_PATH}/immich/postgres

currently has these permissions/ownership:

drwx------ 20 openmediavault-webgui appmgr 27 Feb 25 14:24 postgres

drwx------ 20 openmediavault-webgui appmgr 27 Feb 25 14:24 postgres

Immich•4w ago•

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Immich is failing to start; Postgres is stuck in "the database is starting up" error loop

🚧Setup

Solved🗄️Server

immich_postgres

immich_postgres

, I see a loop of these errors:

immich_postgres  | 2026-02-25 21:22:09.058 UTC [711] FATAL:  the database system is starting up

immich_postgres  | 2026-02-25 21:22:09.058 UTC [711] FATAL:  the database system is starting up

Without a running Postgres, the

immich-server

immich-server

service can't start properly.

I have not made any recent changes to my system or to Immich.

System Details

* Operating System: OpenMediaVault 7.7.13-1 (Sandworm)
* Immich version: 2.3.1

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.2G  6.7M  3.2G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  116G   66G   44G  61% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
efivarfs        128K   15K  109K  13% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  148K  511M   1% /boot/efi
tmpfs            16G  1.9G   14G  12% /tmp
akhet           3.6T  1.1T  2.6T  31% /akhet

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.2G  6.7M  3.2G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  116G   66G   44G  61% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
efivarfs        128K   15K  109K  13% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  148K  511M   1% /boot/efi
tmpfs            16G  1.9G   14G  12% /tmp
akhet           3.6T  1.1T  2.6T  31% /akhet

Other Notes

The

postgres

postgres

directory specified by

DB_DATA_LOCATION=${VOLUMES_PATH}/immich/postgres

DB_DATA_LOCATION=${VOLUMES_PATH}/immich/postgres

currently has these permissions/ownership:

drwx------ 20 openmediavault-webgui appmgr 27 Feb 25 14:24 postgres

drwx------ 20 openmediavault-webgui appmgr 27 Feb 25 14:24 postgres

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