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Troubleshooting

Someone asked you for a 'docker-compose' snippet...How do you give them that?

If you are not using docker-compose that can sound like a daunting task. Have no fear though, the following cli command spits it out.

docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro red5d/docker-autocompose <container-name-or-id> [<additional-names-or-ids>]

Now you should upload this to something like hastebin.com, pastebin.com, github.com or any other site that provides easy sharing of text files.

If you are sure that there's no personal information to be seen, you can also use the command below and provide them the link.

docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro red5d/docker-autocompose <container-name-or-id> [<additional-names-or-ids>] | curl -H "x-uuid;" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/'

What is this libseccomp2 thing I keep hearing about? Am I affected by it?

If you are running Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS (key part here, it being arm 32-bit), your docker container all of a sudden stops working and you appear to be the only person in the world to have this happen... Rest assured you are not alone. The issue here is that you are probably running an outdated version of libseccomp2. The symptom can vary in many ways depending on the app.

Radarr for example does nothing (no error or anything), Mylar3 gives this Fatal Python error: pyinit_main: can't initialize time, Overseerr gives you Fatal error in , line 0, docker exec <container-name> date returns 1970 and the list goes on.

The fastest way to detect if that is indeed your issue is by running the container in --privileged mode (I understand that you are not comfortable with this, and you should avoid running privileged at all costs), if it works after doing this, you now know you're a victim too. If you really don't like doing this, doing docker exec <container-name> date might confirm it too if you are 100% sure your system date is working as expected.

Several solutions:

1. Upgrade your OS to Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 image (found here).

2. Manually update libseccomp2 (found here).

   wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libseccomp/libseccomp2_2.5.1-1_armhf.deb
   sudo dpkg -i libseccomp2_2.5.1-1_armhf.deb
   

3. Keep running with --privileged, not recommended though.

The prefered way here is going with Ubuntu + ARM64 if you can.

Info

Make sure you are running the latest Docker Engine.

Installation

How do I install 'docker-compose' on my machine?

There's all sorts of ways to do this, here we are going to pick the easy way. The following commands will download and install a wrapper script that uses the docker image linuxserver/docker-compose.

sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxserver/docker-docker-compose/master/run.sh > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Now you should be able to do docker-compose --version as if it were natively installed. This script doesn't pull for the latest image though everytime it runs, so it might be a good idea to once in a while purge the image. It'll then pull a new one the next time it runs.

Installing Docker, how and where?

I'd have a look at the official Docker Engine installation instructions.

Guides

I would like to execute my own scripts on startup, how would I do this?

This will only work for containers using s6 overlay, recognisable by ENVIRONMENT printed at the top of the log when the container starts.

If you have a need to do additional stuff when the container starts or stops, you can mount your script with the volume /docker/host/my-script.sh:/etc/cont-init.d/99-my-script to execute your script on container start or /docker/host/my-script.sh:/etc/cont-finish.d/99-my-script to execute it when the container stops. An example script can be seen below.

#!/usr/bin/with-contenv bash

echo "Hello, this is me, your script."

How do I use this 'docker-compose' to start all my apps?

First you'll need to create a file called docker-compose.yml in a location that you like, adjust below example to your liking.

cd ~/
mkdir ./compose
nano ./compose/docker-compose.yml

Now you can copy/paste your services into this file. See example below. Don't forget to adjust or add more volumes and set the environment variables according to your situation.

version: "3.7"

  services:
    cloudflareddns:
      container_name: cloudflareddns
      image: hotio/cloudflareddns
      environment:
        - PUID=1000
        - PGID=1000
        - UMASK=002
        - TZ=Etc/UTC
        - INTERVAL=300
        - DETECTION_MODE=dig-whoami.cloudflare
        - LOG_LEVEL=3
        - cloudflareddns
        - CF_USER=your.cf.email@example.com
        - CF_APIKEY=your.global.apikey
        - CF_APITOKEN
        - CF_APITOKEN_ZONE
        - CF_HOSTS=test.example.com;test.foobar.com;test2.foobar.com
        - CF_ZONES=example.com;foobar.com;foobar.com
        - CF_RECORDTYPES=A;A;AAAA
      volumes:
        - /<host_folder_config>:/config
      restart: unless-stopped

    qflood:
      container_name: qflood
      image: hotio/qflood
      ports:
        - "8080:8080"
        - "3000:3000"
      environment:
        - PUID=1000
        - PGID=1000
        - UMASK=002
        - TZ=Etc/UTC
        - FLOOD_AUTH=false
      volumes:
        - /<host_folder_config>:/config
      restart: unless-stopped

If we now do cd ~/compose, followed by docker-compose up -d all our containers should start. To bring everything down, you can do docker-compose down. If we want to update them, we do docker-compose pull followed by docker-compose up -d. When making adjustments to our docker-compose.yml file, we do docker-compose up -d and all containers that had modifications will be recreated.

How can I get a static IP for one of my containers using 'docker-compose'?

Here's a basic docker-compose example that sets up a custom network and gives the plex container a static IP.

version: "3.7"

networks:
  my-custom-network:
    name: my-custom-network
    driver: bridge
    ipam:
      driver: default
      config:
        - subnet: 10.1.0.0/24

services:
  plex:
    container_name: plex
    image: hotio/plex
    ports:
      - "32400:32400"
    networks:
      my-custom-network:
        ipv4_address: 10.1.0.100
    ...

  radarr:
    container_name: radarr
    image: hotio/radarr
    ports:
      - "7878:7878"
    networks:
      - my-custom-network
    ...

How do I route a container's traffic through a VPN container?

Small docker-compose example below. Notice the ..., this isn't a copy/paste ready to go example.

version: "3.7"

services:
  qbittorrent:
    container_name: qbittorrent
    image: hotio/qbittorrent
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "9117:9117"
    environment:
      ...
      - VPN_ADDITIONAL_PORTS=9117/tcp,9117/udp
    ...

  jackett:
    container_name: jackett
    image: hotio/jackett
    network_mode: "service:qbittorrent"
    ...

Got any Docker guides?

Take a look here for an extensive guide on best practises from the *arr team.

But, but, how do I configure all this stuff?

Maybe TRaSH from TRaSH Guides can help...