SOLVED: No Initial Configuration

[vulcan_xx7]

Hi, I'd just like to say thanks in advance for any advice. Basically, I'm running into a weird problem where Jellyfin won't show me the initial set up page when first accessing the web gui after a fresh install from 'curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash'.

- Debian 12.7-1 LXC on Proxmox kernel 6.8. 

I was running Jellyfin through Docker inside the LXC successfully for weeks, but recently purchased an Intel Arc A380 card to be able to transcode more efficiently. After struggling to get Jellyfin to use my GPU that way, I decided it would be easier to just run Jellyfin outside of Docker to avoid the permissions headache of passing /dev/dri to Docker by running it directly on the LXC. But it won't show me the initial startup page after installing Jellyfin. I'm mounting /config /data /log /cache from a zfs pool, but shouldn't matter on a fresh install since it's not used by default. I've even removed the mount points to confirm, and recreated the CT and reinstalled and it still refuses to show me the setup.

When I try to use the Forgot Password function it tells me that I need to be on my home network, which obviously I am. I access the web gui from my desktop PC at 192.168.1.101/24 and the LXC is set as a static IP at 192.168.1.23/24.

I made sure that <IsStartupWizardCompleted>false</IsStartupWizardCompleted> is set in system.xml.

Is there a default login? like UN:Jellyfin/PW:Jellyfin? (I've tried that)

I don't care about preserving anything except my library at this point.

Thanks again in advance.

[bitmap]

Delete the contents of your config folder and try again. Make sure you stop Jellyfin, empty the config folder, then restart Jellyfin.

I'm not familiar with running docker inside proxmox, but I thought getting the card passed into the VM in the first place was the issue. Passing /dev/dri (or the actual node/s) to docker is negligible.

[vulcan_xx7]

Delete the contents of your config folder and try again. Make sure you stop Jellyfin, empty the config folder, then restart Jellyfin.

I'm not familiar with running docker inside proxmox, but I thought getting the card passed into the VM in the first place was the issue. Passing /dev/dri (or the actual node/s) to docker is negligible.

Thanks for the response. Yeah, the guides aren't all that specific to my setup and don't go into docker a lot besides stating it needs passed through by both the host and the container into docker. I was having a hellish time getting that working and decided to remove a layer of complexity.. except the joke is on me. I only know just enough to be dangerous. But I do know the container has access to the proper GPU because I can run vainfo successfully. It took a while to get it working for a couple of reasons; one was because at first I was trying to completely pass off the GPU to the container with vfio drivers, which I realized isn't possible because the container shares kernel space. and the other reason was simply because I was trying to use the xe kernel driver instead of i915, which apparently the iHD userspace driver doesn't have compatibility for yet since xe is still new.

Anyway, I stopped and disabled jellyfin.service then deleted the contents of /etc/jellyfin. It placed new .xml files into the folder but I'm still stuck at the login screen and it's prompting me for a username and password without the initial configuration.

Here's the output of systemctl and journalctl after starting the container:

root@jf-tdarretc/jellyfin# systemctl status jellyfin
* jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d
            -jellyfin.service.conf
    Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-07-20 19:20:15 EDT; 34s ago
  Main PID: 348 (jellyfin)
      Tasks: 18 (limit: 76884)
    Memory: 272.8M
        CPU: 17.598s
    CGroup: /system.slice/jellyfin.service
            -348 /usr/bin/jellyfin --webdir=/usr/share/jellyfin/web --ffmpeg=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Jul 20 19:20:17 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:17] [INF] [4] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncoder: Available hwaccel types: ["cuda", "vaapi", "qsv", "drm", "opencl", "vulkan"]
Jul 20 19:20:20 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:20] [INF] [18] Emby.Server.Implementations.ScheduledTasks.TaskManager: Clean Transcode Directory Completed after 0 minute(s) and 0 seconds
Jul 20 19:20:20 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:20] [INF] [17] Emby.Server.Implementations.ScheduledTasks.TaskManager: Clean up collections and playlists Completed after 0 minute(s) and 0 seconds
Jul 20 19:20:21 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:21] [INF] [18] Emby.Server.Implementations.ScheduledTasks.TaskManager: Update Plugins Completed after 0 minute(s) and 0 seconds
Jul 20 19:20:22 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:22] [INF] [4] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncoder: FFmpeg: /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Jul 20 19:20:22 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:22] [INF] [4] Emby.Server.Implementations.ApplicationHost: ServerId: 26cd78c1c0ab43469fc047faa04ff58c
Jul 20 19:20:22 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:22] [INF] [4] Emby.Server.Implementations.ApplicationHost: Core startup complete
Jul 20 19:20:22 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:22] [INF] [4] Main: Startup complete 0:00:06.893111
Jul 20 19:20:30 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:30] [INF] [4] Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Users.UserManager: Authentication request for admin has been denied (IP: 192.168.1.101).
Jul 20 19:20:30 jf-tdarr jellyfin[348]: [19:20:30] [ERR] [4] Jellyfin.Api.Middleware.ExceptionMiddleware: Error processing request: Invalid username or password entered. URL POST /Users/authenticatebyname.

root@jf-tdarretc/jellyfin# journalctl -u jellyfin.service
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr systemd[1]: Started jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server.
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Jellyfin version: 10.10.7
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Environment Variables: ["[JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR, /var/lib/jellyfin]", "[JELLYFIN_USER, jellyfin]", "[JELLYFIN_LOG_DIR, /var/log/jellyfin]", "[JELLYFIN_ADDITIONAL_OPTS, ]", "[J>
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Arguments: ["/usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin.dll", "--webdir=/usr/share/jellyfin/web", "--ffmpeg=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg"]
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Architecture: X64
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] 64-Bit Process: True
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] User Interactive: True
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Processor count: 10
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Program data path: /var/lib/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Log directory path: /var/log/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Config directory path: /etc/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Cache path: /var/cache/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Temp directory path: /tmp/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Web resources path: /usr/share/jellyfin/web
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Application directory: /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Marking following migrations as applied because this is a fresh install: ["CreateNetworkConfiguration", "MigrateMusicBrainzTimeout", "MigrateNetworkConfiguration", "Migrat>
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Setting cache path: /var/cache/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Loading assemblies
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Defined LAN subnets: ["127.0.0.1/8", "10.0.0.0/8", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.168.0.0/16"]
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Defined LAN exclusions: []
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Used LAN subnets: ["127.0.0.1/8", "10.0.0.0/8", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.168.0.0/16"]
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Filtered interface addresses: ["127.0.0.1", "192.168.1.23"]
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Bind Addresses ["0.0.0.0"]
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Remote IP filter is Allowlist
Jul 20 16:23:27 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:27] [INF] Filtered subnets: []
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [INF] There are pending EFCore migrations in the database. Applying... (This may take a while, do not stop Jellyfin)
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'ImageInfos' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'ImageInfos' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Permissions' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Permissions' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Preferences' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Preferences' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Users' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Users' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [INF] EFCore migrations applied successfully
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Saving system configuration
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Setting cache path: /var/cache/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Loaded plugin: TMDb 10.10.7.0
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Loaded plugin: Studio Images 10.10.7.0
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Loaded plugin: OMDb 10.10.7.0
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Loaded plugin: MusicBrainz 10.10.7.0
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Loaded plugin: AudioDB 10.10.7.0
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Marking following migrations as applied because this is a fresh install: ["DisableTranscodingThrottling", "CreateLoggingConfigHeirarchy", "MigrateActivityLogDatabase", "Re>
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Applying migration 'AddDefaultPluginRepository'
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Saving system configuration
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Setting cache path: /var/cache/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Migration 'AddDefaultPluginRepository' applied successfully
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Applying migration 'ReaddDefaultPluginRepository'
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Migration 'ReaddDefaultPluginRepository' applied successfully
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Applying migration 'AddDefaultCastReceivers'
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Saving system configuration
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Setting cache path: /var/cache/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Migration 'AddDefaultCastReceivers' applied successfully
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Applying migration 'UpdateDefaultPluginRepository10.9'
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Saving system configuration
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Setting cache path: /var/cache/jellyfin
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Migration 'UpdateDefaultPluginRepository10.9' applied successfully
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Applying migration 'MoveTrickplayFiles'
Jul 20 16:23:29 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:29] [INF] Moved 0 items in 00:00:00.0704427
root@jf-tdarretc/jellyfin# ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin 2645 Jul 20 19:20 encoding.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin 1362 Jul 20 19:20 logging.default.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin 3639 Jul 20 19:20 migrations.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin 6753 Jul 20 19:20 system.xml

All the expected paths are the default. Though looking at this output the culprit is probably within these lines here? Though I have no idea what to do about it:

Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'ImageInfos' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'ImageInfos' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Permissions' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Permissions' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Preferences' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Preferences' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Users' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.
Jul 20 16:23:28 jf-tdarr jellyfin[2339]: [16:23:28] [WRN] An operation of type 'SqlOperation' will be attempted while a rebuild of table 'Users' is pending. The database may not be in an expected state. Review the SQL generated by this migration to help diagnose any failures. Consider moving these operations to a subsequent migration.

I could try modifying jellyfin.db to add the user but I'll be honest I have no idea what I'm looking at.

[vulcan_xx7]

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