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                      
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
  • matthew@leemyalone.orgOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Is there a way to reset the pictrs DB without affecting the posts, commenst and users DB?

    • SpecGeo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You can try mounting a new folder as pictrs volume. I assume your other data will be safe since it is in the database.

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      pictrs database is completely separate from lemmy database. If you want you just delete everything in the pictrs volume and start afresh. You will lose all images though.

      • matthew@leemyalone.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s only two local posts on my instance so i’m not worried about losing thoseabout.

        Will the pictrs from subscribed communities in other instances be restored after a db reset?

        • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          pictrs from subscribed communities in other instances

          Dont worry about those. Those images are not stored by your pictrs instance. They are directly fetched from the native instances.

      • matthew@leemyalone.orgOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        OK. I just deleted the pictrs folder from srv/lemmy/leemyalone.org/volumes but I am still having the same issue.

        • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          You’ll have to check again. My guess is though you should not have deleted the pictrs folders. Just its contents. You can recreate the folder again though:

          mkdir pictrs
sudo chown 991:991 pictrs

          But check the logs first.

          • matthew@leemyalone.orgOPEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            In my previous comment I should have mentioned that I did recreate the pictrs folder. Your instruction to change set the ownership of the pictures folder to 991:991 did the trick.

            Thank you so much for your help here. Much appreciated.