Jellyfin container crashes during startup

[Dificator]

Hello!

I'm trying to run Jellyfin in a container via podman, but it crashes immediately when I start it. The container status says "Exited (139) 14 minutes ago (starting)". Here are the container logs:

Process terminated. Couldn't find a valid ICU package installed on the system. Please install libicu (or icu-libs) using your package manager and try again. Alternatively you can set the configuration flag System.Globalization.Invariant to true if you want to run with no globalization support. Please see https://aka.ms/dotnet-missing-libicu for more information.
  at System.Environment.FailFast(System.String)
  at System.Globalization.GlobalizationMode+Settings..cctor()
  at System.Globalization.CultureData.CreateCultureWithInvariantData()
  at System.Globalization.CultureData.get_Invariant()
  at System.Globalization.CultureInfo..cctor()
  at System.Globalization.CultureInfo.get_InvariantCulture()
  at CommandLine.ParserSettings..ctor()
  at CommandLine.Parser+<>c.<.cctor>b__20_0()
  at System.Lazy1[[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]].ViaFactory(System.Threading.LazyThreadSafetyMode)
  at System.Lazy1[[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]].ExecutionAndPublication(System.LazyHelper, Boolean)
  at System.Lazy`1[[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]].CreateValue()
  at CommandLine.Parser.get_Default()
  at Jellyfin.Server.Program.Main(System.String[])
  at Jellyfin.Server.Program.<Main>(System.String[])

Here is the command I'm using to start the container:

podman run \
--detach \
--label "io.containers.autoupdate=registry" \
--name jellyfin \
--publish 8096:8096/tcp \
--user $(id -u):$(id -g) \
--userns keep-id \
--volume /home/jellyfin/cache: /cache:Z \
--volume /home/jellyfin/config: /config:Z \
--mount type=bind,source=/data/storage/jellyfin/media,destination=/media,ro=true,relabel=private \
docker.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:latest

My OS: Fedora Server 41
Version: The latest jellyfin docker image (10.10.6)

I'm not sure if it's important, but I checked, and I have "libicu-74.2-2.fc41.x86_64" installed on the machine.

When I try to run the same thing on my workstation (Fedora 40), everything works fine.

Has anyone seen this issue before? Do you know how to fix it?

[TheDreadPirate]

Try installing libicu-dev and icu-devtools, if they aren't installed already. Both of those are installed on my server, in addition to libicu.

[Dificator]

Hi, thank you for the reply. I have now installed libicu, libicu-devel, and icu. I didn't find an equivalent for icu-devtools on the Fedora Server. However, I'm still running into the same issue.

Shouldn't these libraries be packaged inside the container?

[TheDreadPirate]

What is this environment variable set to?

Code:

DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT

[Dificator]

It's not set. I tried to set it to true with "podman run -e DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=true ...". When I did that, the error that I had before disappeared, but a new one popped up. Here is the full log:

[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Jellyfin version: 10.10.6
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Environment Variables: ["[JELLYFIN_CACHE_DIR, /cache]", "[JELLYFIN_FFMPEG, /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg]", "[JELLYFIN_CONFIG_DIR, /config/config]", "[JELLYFIN_LOG_DIR, /config/log]", "[JELLYFIN_WEB_DIR, /jellyfin/jellyfin-web]", "[JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR, /config]", "[DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT, true]"]
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Arguments: ["/jellyfin/jellyfin.dll"]
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Architecture: X64
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: 64-Bit Process: True
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: User Interactive: True
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Processor count: 4
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Program data path: /config
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Log directory path: /config/log
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Config directory path: /config/config
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Cache path: /cache
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Temp directory path: /tmp/jellyfin
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Web resources path: /jellyfin/jellyfin-web
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Main: Application directory: /jellyfin/
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Server.Migrations.MigrationRunner: Marking following migrations as applied because this is a fresh install: ["CreateNetworkConfiguration", "MigrateMusicBrainzTimeout", "MigrateNetworkConfiguration", "MigrateEncodingOptions"]
[20:17:30] [INF] [1] Emby.Server.Implementations.AppBase.BaseConfigurationManager: Setting cache path: /cache
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Emby.Server.Implementations.ApplicationHost: Loading assemblies
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Defined LAN subnets: ["127.0.0.1/8", "10.0.0.0/8", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.168.0.0/16"]
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Defined LAN exclusions: []
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Used LAN subnets: ["127.0.0.1/8", "10.0.0.0/8", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.168.0.0/16"]
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Filtered interface addresses: ["127.0.0.1", "192.168.1.105"]
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Bind Addresses ["0.0.0.0"]
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Remote IP filter is Allowlist
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Networking.Manager.NetworkManager: Filtered subnets: []
[20:17:31] [FTL] [1] Main: Error while starting server
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Jellyfin.Drawing.Skia.SkiaEncoder' threw an exception.
---> System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'libSkiaSharp' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider using a tool like strace. If you're using glibc, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1: file too short
libSkiaSharp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/jellyfin/liblibSkiaSharp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/jellyfin/libSkiaSharp: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/jellyfin/liblibSkiaSharp: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  at SkiaSharp.SkiaApi.sk_imagefilter_new_matrix_convolution(SKSizeI* kernelSize, Single* kernel, Single gain, Single bias, SKPointI* kernelOffset, SKShaderTileMode tileMode, Boolean convolveAlpha, IntPtr input, IntPtr cropRect)
  at SkiaSharp.SKImageFilter.CreateMatrixConvolution(SKSizeI kernelSize, ReadOnlySpan1 kernel, Single gain, Single bias, SKPointI kernelOffset, SKShaderTileMode tileMode, Boolean convolveAlpha, SKImageFilter input, CropRect cropRect)
  at SkiaSharp.SKImageFilter.CreateMatrixConvolution(SKSizeI kernelSize, ReadOnlySpan1 kernel, Single gain, Single bias, SKPointI kernelOffset, SKShaderTileMode tileMode, Boolean convolveAlpha)
  at Jellyfin.Drawing.Skia.SkiaEncoder..cctor()
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at Jellyfin.Drawing.Skia.SkiaEncoder.IsNativeLibAvailable()
  at Jellyfin.Server.CoreAppHost.RegisterServices(IServiceCollection serviceCollection)
  at Emby.Server.Implementations.ApplicationHost.Init(IServiceCollection serviceCollection)
  at Jellyfin.Server.Program.<>c__DisplayClass8_0.<StartServer>b__0(IServiceCollection services)
  at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostBuilder.InitializeServiceProvider()
  at Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostBuilder.Build()
  at Jellyfin.Server.Program.StartServer(IServerApplicationPaths appPaths, StartupOptions options, IConfiguration startupConfig)
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Emby.Server.Implementations.ApplicationHost: Disposing CoreAppHost
[20:17:31] [INF] [1] Emby.Server.Implementations.ApplicationHost: Disposing PluginManager