Support / questions about Lemmy.
The problem is likely Ubuntu not Lemmy or not even the Lemmy setup process.
You seem to not have a dbus session going which you should by default even with SSH. It sounds like it might be falling back to trying to get it from X11 and fails that too (obviously).
So, just Ubuntu being Ubuntu.
As others have already said, Lemmy does not require a display.
You might want to try the Ansible method of setting up a Lemmy instance. I personally found it much easier.
use wayland then
It doesn’t. No idea what you’ve done.
What’s the error you’re seeing?
Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
Ah my bad. Memmy didn’t display the code block in your OP or this post. I see it on the web version.
That error might be less about needing X11 and more about wanting D-Bus. Since D-Bus isn’t running, it’s trying to start it by itself using X11, which also doesn’t work.
Does the error actually make Lemmy quit out?
FWIW I have a sanitised copy of my Lemmy k8s config on Gitlab that might help: https://gitlab.com/conorab/k8s-lemmy
I think there is some info missing. You’re using SSH to access the server where you are running the docker image? Why does your server have X server installed?
I have no experience running Lemmy. It could be the Lemmy instance includes X server to run some kind of GUI? Seems strange.
My server is running the default ubuntu image from Oracle Cloud. I don't think it has X server installed.
what's your docker-compose.yml look like, and what command are you using to start it?
I'm starting with sudo docker compose up -d and my docker-compose.yml is:
version: "3.7"
x-logging: &default-logging
driver: "json-file"
options:
max-size: "50m"
max-file: "4"
services:
proxy:
container_name: proxy
image: docker.io/library/nginx
ports:
# actual and only port facing any connection from outside
# Note, change the left number if port 1236 is already in use on your system
# You could use port 80 if you won't use a reverse proxy
- "8536:8536"
volumes:
- ./nginx_internal.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro,Z
- ./proxy_params:/etc/nginx/proxy_params:ro,Z
restart: always
logging: *default-logging
depends_on:
- pictrs
- lemmy-ui
lemmy-ui:
container_name: lemmy-ui
image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:${LEMMY_VERSION}
environment:
- LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536
- LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=${DOMAIN}
- LEMMY_UI_HTTPS=true
volumes:
- ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes
depends_on:
- lemmy
restart: always
logging: *default-logging
lemmy:
container_name: lemmy
image: dessalines/lemmy:${LEMMY_VERSION}
hostname: lemmy
restart: always
logging: *default-logging
environment:
- RUST_LOG=warn
volumes:
- ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson:Z
depends_on:
- postgres
- pictrs
pictrs:
container_name: pictrs
image: docker.io/c:0.4.3
# This needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson
hostname: pictrs
environment:
- PICTRS__MEDIA__EXTERNAL_VALIDATION=http://pictrs-safety:14051/api/v1/scan/IPADDR
- PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO_CODEC=vp9
- PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_WIDTH=256
- PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_HEIGHT=256
- PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_AREA=65536
- PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_FRAME_COUNT=400
- PICTRS_OPENTELEMETRY_URL=http://otel:4137
- RUST_LOG=debug
- RUST_BACKTRACE=full
- PICTRS__API_KEY=${PICTRS_API_KEY}
- PICTRS__STORE__TYPE=${PICTRS_STORE_TYPE}
- PICTRS__STORE__ENDPOINT=${PICTRS_STORE_ENDPOINT}
- PICTRS__STORE__BUCKET_NAME=${PICTRS_STORE_BUCKET_NAME}
- PICTRS__STORE__REGION=${PICTRS_STORE_REGION}
- PICTRS__STORE__USE_PATH_STYLE=${PICTRS_STORE_USE_PATH_STYLE}
- PICTRS__STORE__ACCESS_KEY=${PICTRS_STORE_ACCESS_KEY}
- PICTRS__STORE__SECRET_KEY=${PICTRS_STORE_SECRET_KEY}
volumes:
- ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt:Z
user: 991:991
restart: always
logging: *default-logging
deploy:
resources:
limits:
memory: 690m
postgres:
container_name: postgres
image: docker.io/postgres:15-alpine
hostname: postgres
environment:
- POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER}
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
- POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB}
volumes:
- ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z
- ./customPostgresql.conf:/etc/postgresql.conf
restart: always
command: postgres -c config_file=/etc/postgresql.conf
logging: *default-logging
pictrs-safety:
image: ghcr.io/db0/pictrs-safety:v1.2.2
hostname: pictrs-safety
container_name: pictrs-safety
environment:
- FEDIVERSE_SAFETY_WORKER_AUTH="${PICTRS_SAFETY_WORKER_AUTH}"
- FEDIVERSE_SAFETY_IMGDIR="/tmp/images"
- USE_SQLITE=1
- secret_key="${PICTRS_SECRET_KEY}"
- SCAN_BYPASS_THRESHOLD=10
- MISSING_WORKER_THRESHOLD=5
ports:
- "14051:14051"
user: 991:991
restart: always
logging: *default-logging
depends_on:
- pictrs
I'm following this guide: https://patrickwu.space/2023/11/04/install-lemmy-simplified/. My .env file is:
LEMMY_VERSION=0.19.3
DOMAIN=lemmy.soulism.net
# postgres
POSTGRES_USER=admin
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=**redacted**
POSTGRES_DB=
# pictrs
## keys
PICTRS_API_KEY=stars
### 15 random characters
PICTRS_SAFETY_WORKER_AUTH=p70nkXCN1UEcyN3
### 80 random characters
PICTRS_SECRET_KEY=**redacted**
## storage type; by default is filesystem for object storage please set it to object_storage
PICTRS_STORE_TYPE=filesystem
PICTRS_STORE_ENDPOINT=
PICTRS_STORE_BUCKET_NAME=
PICTRS_STORE_REGION=
PICTRS_STORE_USE_PATH_STYLE=false
PICTRS_STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
PICTRS_STORE_SECRET_KEY=
The image for the pictrs service is wrong.
No idea what it should be, but it shouldnt be docker.io/c:0.4.3
Thanks. I get the same error even with pictrs image set to docker.io/asonix/pictrs:0.5.4
I mean, i dont see anything strange.
Maybe just destroy the droplet and start fresh? Or spin up another just to test with?
Are you familiar with installing docker? I always just use docker's convenience script to install it, and never had any problems.
You sure you havent accidentally installed docker desktop instead of docker engine? I dont know if docker has a desktop version for linux.
I keep meaning to figure out rootless mode or swap to podman
Sounds like something is incorrect in your setup. Nothing Lemmy does requires x11, dbus, or any display technology.
Thanks. Do you know what I could have done wrong? I've looked through all the config files and there's nothing about a display in them, unless you count lemmy-ui
No idea. Sorry.