Having an issue with pictrs after full disk
Having an issue with pictrs after full disk
The virtual disk for my lemmy instance filled up which caused lemmy to throw a lot of errors. I resized the disk and expanded the filesystem but now the pictrs container is constantly restarting.
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# le
less lessecho lessfile lesskey lesspipe let letsencrypt lexgrog
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# ls
leemyalone.org
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy# cd leemyalone.org/
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org# docker-compose ps
Name Command State Ports
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leemyaloneorg_lemmy-ui_1 docker-entrypoint.sh /bin/ ... Up 1234/tcp
leemyaloneorg_lemmy_1 /app/lemmy Up
leemyaloneorg_pictrs_1 /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/b ... Restarting
leemyaloneorg_postfix_1 /root/run Up 25/tcp
leemyaloneorg_postgres_1 docker-entrypoint.sh postgres Up 5432/tcp
leemyaloneorg_proxy_1 /docker-entrypoint.sh ngin ... Up 80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:3378->8536/tcp,:::3378->8536/tcp
Might this be related?
In some cases, pict-rs might crash and be unable to start again. The most common reason for this is the filesystem reached 100% and pict-rs could not write to the disk, but this could also happen if pict-rs is killed at an unfortunate time. If this occurs, the solution is to first get more disk for your server, and then look in the sled-repo directory for pict-rs. It's likely that pict-rs created a zero-sized file called snap.somehash.generating. Delete that file and restart pict-rs.
https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs#user-content-common-problems
Pictrs saves Thumbnails profile Images of users not just from your instance but also from other instances. Lemmy devs should look into optimising this like they did with the database.
That's all pictrs is for? Can it just be disabled without breaking anything else?
Pictrs is for all image storage. But posted images stay on the source instance. Thumbnails and banners are federated.
Have you checked the logs for the pictures container to see why it's restarting?
Could it be permissions?
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What do the logs say?
Can't see pictrs log because it never full starts.
root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org# docker-compose logs leemyaloneorg_pictures_1 ERROR: No such service: leemyaloneorg_pictures_1 root@Lemmy:/srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org#If the pictrs container doesn't start check the docker logs.
journalctl -fexu dockerIt'll typically tell you why a container isn't starting, usually a broken bind mount.
To prevent this from happening again, try migrating to an S3 backend; DigitalOcean have one that's fixed-price and includes egress, so you can't accidentally end up with a ridiculous bill one month!