Debian VM with portainer unable to deploy Immich

[mint jacinth]

I have a DB setup in proxmox with remote db and upload location on truenas samba share. After setting on correct variable and configs, I get this error that db_password and databse_name is required. While the postgres db service seems to run fine without error.

[idle rock]

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[sage crest]

#    env_file:
#      - .env

Why did you comment this out? That's the reason it's not working

[mint jacinth]

I added the variables on portainer separately. I recall from other setup. That it just looks up the individual variable and their value. Is that wrong?

[sage crest]

Did you add them to each container separately? Or to the stack?

They need to get passed through to the container which is what that commented out line does

[mint jacinth]

Added to the stack.

[mint jacinth]

Does it create a .env file as I haven’t saved any file locally. Just added them to the stack.

[sage crest]

Have you read the immich docs for installing with portainer?

[mint jacinth]

yes,

also if i uncomment teh .env lines, i get the error.

I guess i might have missed some steps.

[charred mountain]

https://immich.app/docs/install/portainer/

I recommend starting over

[mint jacinth]

fixed the stack.env

and now 3/4 services are running and green

i can reacg the gui as well. just wondering why postgres is showing yellow

[charred mountain]

It says starting. How long did you wait? What do the logs say?

[thick crag]

again, below that in portainer you need the "extra variables", that's the .env info like below

[mint jacinth]

It worked later. I dont recall what i changed.

But now my mount point is not saving file to nas, but created directories locally. so need to fix the automount of share.

[mint jacinth]

do you really need all those hostpaths. I thought that was in truenas app. but docker did not suggest having that many paths?

[mint jacinth]

db creation is failing

[thick crag]

Well now, your data dir has no access for postgres, go validate /var/lib/postgresql/data and fix the permissions

[mint jacinth]

I am struggling with permissions, if I add Postgres user and group to truenas share, it breaks the access to directory but db work. I manually tried adding both but it’s not working.