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.