(Using https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible)
The ansible-playbook command itself connected to the VPS and completed without any errors or warnings. This is on a completely fresh VPS with Ubuntu Server 22.04.
I created all directories needed in the guide, and the only file I modified was the inventory/hosts file - filling in the username/domain for SSH, domain name, contact email and adding the location of the private key for SSH.
The guide didn’t note any changes to config.hjson I needed to make, so I copied that file as requested but left it with the default content. I’m thinking if I missed something it’s most likely there.
I couldn’t access the web UI and with some investigation I found the dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4 (backend) container is continually restarting, apparently because it can’t reach the database -
sudo docker container logs <id>
returns the following:
thread 'main' panicked at 'Error connecting to postgres://lemmy:PasswordRedacted@postgres:5432/lemmy', crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs:161:56
I’m not sure what to do at this point, so I would be very appreciative of any help with this issue.
Sounds like your Postgres instance is offline. Any logs from that container?
The postgres container appears to be running.
sudo docker ps
output:CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES e305af2b91c8 dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.4 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 127.0.0.1:12074->1234/tcp lemmyname_lemmy-ui_1 3978157ef390 dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4 "/app/lemmy" 27 minutes ago Restarting (101) 34 seconds ago lemmyname_lemmy_1 626d7792534b asonix/pictrs:0.3.1 "/sbin/tini -- /usr/…" 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 6669/tcp, 127.0.0.1:21166->8080/tcp lemmyname_pictrs_1 65eab82adee9 mwader/postfix-relay "/root/run" 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 25/tcp lemmyname_postfix_1 2ab8c789fdcd postgres:15-alpine "docker-entrypoint.s…" 27 minutes ago Up 27 minutes 5432/tcp lemmyname_postgres_1
Container logs: …
PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up. 2023-06-18 01:57:16.112 UTC [1] LOG: starting PostgreSQL 15.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 12.2.1_git20220924-r10) 12.2.1 20220924, 64-bit 2023-06-18 01:57:16.112 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432 2023-06-18 01:57:16.112 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432 2023-06-18 01:57:16.113 UTC [1] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" 2023-06-18 01:57:16.117 UTC [53] LOG: database system was shut down at 2023-06-18 01:57:16 UTC 2023-06-18 01:57:16.123 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2023-06-18 02:02:16.215 UTC [51] LOG: checkpoint starting: time 2023-06-18 02:02:20.329 UTC [51] LOG: checkpoint complete: wrote 44 buffers (0.3%); 0 WAL file(s) added, 0 removed, 0 recycled; write=4.110 s, sync=0.003 s, total=4.115 s; sync files=12, longest=0.002 s, average=0.001 s; distance=252 kB, estimate=252 kB
Can you log into it using your password? If so, then the network between the two isn’t working properly and you’ll need to check your Docker network config.