2d ago

Issues with Immich

I set up Immich on a spare mini PC running Linux Mint with a spare external HDD to store the library. Used Docker compose as recommended on the website. Everything was working great last night. Then this morning I decided to move the mini PC to a more permanent location. I powered down and moved it. When everything restarted though I discovered that I was unable to c9nnect to the immich server. I went onto the mini PC and the local host and all it says is, "connection was reset." I have tried restarting docker from terminal several times and it says the immich services are running. I still cannot connect to the server though. What can I do to fix this?

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Check the logs for the containers and see what the issue is first. Then go from there.

I can’t help, just chiming in to say that I’ve also had that experience with Immich. It’s the one service I’ve used that has somehow managed to break itself multiple times like this.
No idea how it happens, I don’t do anything weird with the setup and it just breaks. I’d heard that feedback from other people too but didn’t believe it until it happened to me. It’s been a few months so maybe I’ll try again, I’m just not too happy importing hundreds of gigs of photos multiple times.
So yea just… you’re not alone, good luck.

The only issue I’ve had was when Immich doesn’t have enough memory. Immich is a memory hog and will slowly creep up its memory usage over time. Eventually it’ll crash and restart itself. Docker still shows it running, but the server its elf cannot be connected to.
It sounds like it might be related to this.

Did you happen to unplug the external drive when it was moved? Could wonder if the device ID got changed and the server can't find the old location for the library any longer.
- Drive was just connected with USB to mini PC so it was also unplugged and I had to remount it to the PC. I looked in the .env file and the path still looked good. I had considered this was an issue too. I figured that restarting docker with the drive properly mounted would fix this though. Still getting, "connection was reset," though
  
  So I checked the config for the external drive again and discovered when it was remounted it had added a, "1" to the end of the drive name. I went back into the .env and changed the library location to reflect this. Restarted docker and it is now connecting again. Obviously it is not ideal to be using a external HDD, but I wanted to test immich out for a while before investing into a bigger self hosting rig for all my services.
  Ultimately problem solved though

Maybe the IP address changes? You should provide some more info.
Terminal outputs etc
- This is my guess. Always set static in the device and in your router settings.
  
  don’t do this, use DHCP reservations instead so you actually have a list of all your servers and most routers register hostnames in DNS for you which is even better.

If your photos are externally linked I would just delete and rerun the dockers.
I just had a weird immich issue where all my photos disappeared. Deleting Redis solved it for me.

Hey, if you changed the Internet cable then the ip address most likely changed as well. Find you PC new ipv4 address and you'll be able to connect

I shut down my Immich server two months ago and moved it halfway across the state and did not have this issue.
All my files are on an internal disk.

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