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Issue with new install - Lukatz - 2025-02-22
Hello All,
I just used Docker to setup Jellyfin on my Debian 12 server. My docker compose file is below. I am running into an issue that Jellyfin can not see the sub-folders in /data/media. So far my searches have not turned up anything to point me in the right direction. I am getting this error in the log.
Jellyfin.Api.Middleware.ExceptionMiddleware: Error processing request: "Could not find a part of the path '/data/media/movies'". URL "GET" "/Environment/DirectoryContents".
Code:
jellyfin:
container_name: jellyfin
image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Asia/Kolkata
ports:
- '8096:8096'
devices:
- '/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0'
volumes:
- '/home/${USER}/server/configs/jellyfin:/config'
- '/home/${USER}/server/media:/data/media'
restart: unless-stoppedWhen I do an ls -la I get the following results. Since I have Jellyfin running as my user it should have access to the folders with this is my understanding.
drwxr-xr-x 7 (user) (user) 4096 Feb 22 11:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 (user) (user) 4096 Feb 22 11:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 (user) (user) 4096 Feb 22 11:24 audiobooks
drwxr-xr-x 7 (user) (user) 4096 Feb 22 11:24 books
drwxr-xr-x 7 (user) (user) 4096 Feb 22 11:24 movies
drwxr-xr-x 7 (user) (user) 4096 Feb 22 11:24 music
drwxr-xr-x 7 (user) (user) 4096 Feb 22 11:24 tv
My Jellyfin build is 10.10.6. If there is anything else I need to provide let me know. Thank you for any help you can give me.
10.10.6
10.10.6
RE: Issue with new install - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-22
Where are you defining ${USER}? In a .env file? Is that set to a user name or user ID?
RE: Issue with new install - Lukatz - 2025-02-22
(Yesterday, 10:32 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Where are you defining ${USER}? In a .env file? Is that set to a user name or user ID?
I am new to this so forgive me if I am wrong. From my understanding when I set the environmental arguments it makes it use my user as the user that Jellyfin uses. At least that is what I understand.
RE: Issue with new install - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-23
Docker will not use the host's environment variables by default. So specifying $USER within a Docker compose will not translate to your username inside the Docker container.
You will need to either directly specify your path or you need to create a .env or custom environment file where you do define $USER.
https://docs.docker.com/compose/how-tos/environment-variables/set-environment-variables/#use-the-env_file-attribute
RE: Issue with new install - Lukatz - 2025-02-23
(Today, 01:46 AM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Docker will not use the host's environment variables by default. So specifying $USER within a Docker compose will not translate to your username inside the Docker container.
You will need to either directly specify your path or you need to create a .env or custom environment file where you do define $USER.
https://docs.docker.com/compose/how-tos/environment-variables/set-environment-variables/#use-the-env_file-attribute
Again please correct me if I am wrong but the way I read it here (https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/understanding-puid-and-pgid/#using-the-variables) is when using the PUID and PGUID it sets the user to the number I use. In this case 1000 which is my user. I did change my path from ${USER} to my actual user. I then stopped and restarted my Jellyfin container and I did not see a change. I still had the same paths and could not see any other folders. Thank you for helping me understand this.
You can ignore the above. Thank you again for your help! I deleted my container and started a new one after changing the file path to my user and it worked!