#Can't get new Windows 11 install to work, suspect issue with database container

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heady canopy
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I'm trying to install Immich in Windows 11. I read the post about using a Docker volume bind mount since Immich cannot use NTFS. During the docker compose up -d command, everything starts. But the database and server containers keep restarting. It appears the problem starts with the database container. I keep getting connection reset and broken pipe errors. I've attached my env & docker compose files, and my docker log for the database container.

Any ideas what I can try to get this to run? I've turned my firewall off just to make sure that isn't interfering.

📎 postgres_log.txt 📎 env 📎 docker-compose.yml
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heady canopy
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Can't get new Windows 11 install to work, suspect issue with database container

dusky palm
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Firewall shouldn't be interfering between docker containers like this (I say shouldn't but you never know...)

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Compose looks OK, except that you put ../Our Memories as the storage location, which will work but it's kind of odd to put your compose file inside of a mounted location

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When's the last time you restarted win11? 😛

heady canopy
dusky palm
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Should be a fresh docker desktop then as well

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Try restarting or updating DD just in case

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And because you're mounting the file that controls the config inside a volatile container, that's just bad manners. It shouldn't be of concern with the way we work but you never know

heady canopy
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Thank you for taking a stab at this with me! It's almost 1AM for me now and I have an early morning. I will restart everything and try again tomorrow. I did update WSL today (I think it's on 2.6 now?) JIC.

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What's the alternative to my storage location? I thought I was following the instructions when I set that up

dusky palm
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.. Means "the folder above"

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So just any folder that is not the one that also contains the compose is fine

heady canopy
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So I have storage in 'U:/Our Memories' and the compose in U:/immich, unless I am misunderstanding. I can't separate them any more unless I put them on different drives. Which I can do if that will make a difference.

dusky palm
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Ah right, I was being silly and assumed hte compose was also in Our Memories

heady canopy
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I watched a tutorial online and he put his compose file nested inside the docker desktop folder. Is that necessary?

heady canopy
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Well this is really discouraging. I can't for the life of me get this to run. I'm out of ideas. I have tried this countless times with different iterations. I don't know enough about Docker to really troubleshoot this, but it seems that the database container is not able to communicate with the other containers. I don't know why.

hollow palm
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We’d recommend using Linux. You can probably run it in a VM if you want

heady canopy
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What kind of a resource hit would that be? i9-14900K, Nvidia 4070 Ti Super, 32GB RAM

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Is this something I could do in WSL, or I'd be looking for a different way to run Linux?

hollow palm
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You CAN run immich with docker and WSL but if it’s not working you’d have to do a real VM with hyper V , virtualbox etc

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Perf hit isn’t that big

heady canopy
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I just upgraded to win pro so I can utilize hyper V. Must people I've seen that run immich on windows needed pro. 🤞🏼

heady canopy
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Well, that worked. For whatever reason, Windows 11 Home and WSL 2 just doesn't play nicely with Immich. Windows 11 Pro and WSL 2 worked like a charm. Didn't need to setup a VM or anything.

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I did the basic installation just to see if I could get it running. I would like to enable hardware acceleration for ML. I will look at the instructions to get the appropriate yml file, etc., but do I need to rebuild Immich after I make those changes, or just relaunch?

dusky palm
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There are no config / asset wipes if that is what you're asking. A couple of container restarts for sure but no deletes

heady canopy
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Got the hardware acceleration working, I think. I processed some jobs and didn't see any errors.