That second error is not a matter of your ARM64 architecture, but a networking thing. If you launch a bash shell in your container, does any network activity work? That will tell you if it’s the container, or just Lemmy.
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I thought of trying that, but the lemmy container doesn't have ping/wget/curl, unless there is a way to test this without those tools.
You should be able to use docker exec to get a bash prompt from within the docker container and manually install ping using apt/apk.
I should, I think I gave up on this approach too quickly. The lemmy user isn't a superuser, and I couldn't su to root. I'm sure there's another way to log in as the root user though. I'll give this a try.
After getting into the shell, just install the tools you need using the apk command, e.g. apk --no-cache add curl
ARM64 docker images (unfortunately 0.17.4 images don’t exist yet).
I would use the "Lemmy from Scratch", and go with using github checkout for lemmy_server code.
I'm running my instance on ARM64 on Oracle Cloud, they are giving out free ARM systems with 24GB of RAM and 200GB storage.
That does sound incredibly good for free.
Did you have any issues with pict-rs? Is it indeed included within the lemmy-server binary?
That does sound incredibly good for free.
It's a little too good to be true, they have been known to shut down people without notice... I wouldn't rely on it. And the screens to use it are kind of tricky, but there are lots of instruction videos, blogs and Reddit postings about it.
Did you have any issues with pict-rs? Is it indeed included within the lemmy-server binary?
I skipped that for now. I don't think ARM64 matters, Linux is Linux. I skipped it as I didn't want to take on policing images people upload, but as Lemmy improves I might change my mind.
I see no reason ARM64 should matter for Lemmy vs. x86, this is run of the mill stuff like PostgreSQL, Rust, NodeJS.
Damn, I checked out their website and it’s really tempting. I might try it a for a small hobby project that I won’t rely on long-term. Thanks for sharing!
The other catch is they only have so much capacity for free tier. I tried for a while to get one, but never had any luck.
I've just started a new instance on Oracle Cloud given how good the free tier is.
I'm maxed out on everything free: 4 CPU cores, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB storage.
Do you have any idea what the implications are of changing the block volume performance up from the default balanced to higher performance or UHP? All I can find on pricing is here: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/storage/pricing/
But it doesn't mention anything about free tier eligibility.
No idea, I did find some Lemmy discussions on Oracle Cloud: https://lemmy.world/post/55124
I'm gonna jack it up to the highest performance and see if it eats into my first month's free credit.
I built my own arm64 v0.17.4 docker image. It's available on docker hub:
mpatton/lemmy:0.17.4-linux-arm
mpatton/lemmy-ui:0.17.4-linux-arm
What are you using as your reverse proxy?
I ended up using your images and it's working great. Currently playing around with 0.18.0-rc.5
Thanks, I'll check that out if my from-scratch attempt fails. I'm using nginx as a reverse proxy.
My script should get you running 0.17.4 on ARM64:
https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy
It will take a while to compile, since no Docker images are available, but otherwise it should work.
It does the reverse proxy and HTTPS setup for you, no need for Nginx. If the reverse proxy is your problem, maybe this will help?
I don't have a lot of testers for ARM64, but I have heard of success, so hopefully it will work for you. And if you have any bugs, I'd be happy to fix them for the benefit of everyone :)
I'll have a look at this and let you know how I go. Does this work on different distros? E.g. Ubuntu/Debian, Centos, etc? The official Ansible script is Ubuntu only (possibly other apt-based distros).
I've just given the script a go and it seems to have failed
=> => transferring context: 23.07MB 0.2s
=> [lemmy lemmy 2/6] RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends postgresql-client libc6 libssl1.1 ca-certificates && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 18.7s
=> [lemmy builder 2/7] RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends libssl-dev pkg-config libpq-dev git && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 14.7s
=> [lemmy lemmy 3/6] RUN addgroup --gid 1000 lemmy 0.5s
=> [lemmy lemmy 4/6] RUN useradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/sh --uid 1000 --gid 1000 lemmy 0.4s
=> [lemmy builder 3/7] WORKDIR /app 0.0s
=> [lemmy builder 4/7] COPY ./ ./ 0.2s
=> [lemmy builder 5/7] RUN echo "pub const VERSION: &str = "$(git describe --tag)";" > "crates/utils/src/version.rs" 0.2s
=> ERROR [lemmy builder 6/7] RUN cargo build --release 399.8s
Altough the building timer is still running
[+] Building 761.3s (15/18)
Is there somewhere I can access logs to see what happened?
Edit: Managed to screenshot the error prior to it disappearing
Well, that's a new one. Never seen a build fail before.
I see some issues on Lemmy's tracker about builds failing due to network issues. Something about not being able to clone files it needs for the build.
Can you try the build again, and if this happens consistently, file an issue on my tracker? I'll try to reproduce the issue and fix it if possible.
I tried again on a new server, and I'm still getting the same error. It may be related to this:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3235
I see the same references to email_verified_body and email_verified_subject
The easiest would probably be waiting for official ARM containers for 0.17.4. You could also build the containers yourself, the dockerfile should be somewhere in the Lemmy repositories.
Also, nothing's stopping you from building Lemmy from scratch and having Postgres and pictrs in container. Just make sure to forward the necessary ports.
No idea what the error is unfortunately. Are you sure you set all ENV and config variables correctly?
I might try building from scratch again and running pict-rs in a docker container.
I had to work out all of the issues myself to get it working on my RaspberryPi 4. For this error, did you add a network to your "lemmy" container that would allow it access to the internet?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3167#issuecomment-1595846910
I'm still using 0.17.3, btw. I haven't checked if 0.17.4 for arm64 is out yet.
Edit: Just checked and it looks like they're just skipping past 0.17.4 and moving on to 0.18.0 on their docker hub. https://hub.docker.com/r/dessalines/lemmy/tags
The docker docs are out of date. You need to expose the lemmy service to an external network. I created a third network called lemmybridge and added it to the lemmy service.
This sounds promising, I'll give that a try. Thanks
The latest docker-compose in the repo has a fix for this.
I have the same errors regarding kbin.social with my instances running on x86_64, and have yet been successful in federating with them on 0.17.4. I am subscribed to 4 of their "magazines", but cannot get content to start coming in, and have similar errors:
LemmyError { message: None, inner: Request error: error sending request for url (https://kbin.social/u/Larvitar): operation timed out
lemmy.ml instances seem to get stuck on pending subscription as well. Other instances I have subscribed to have no issue. Sorry this doesn't answer your arm64 question, but just wanted to share those errors aren't limited to arm64.
Solution here: https://lemmy.world/comment/429582
I'm not sure this applies to me since I'm hosting on kubernetes, but thanks for sharing that link. I can communicate with any instance other than kbin, and lemmy.ml just seems spotty/inconsistent (I assume it's overloaded slightly still).
In this case, it just so happened to be kbin.social in the example I posted. In my case it's every outbound connection timing out.
The default docker-compose.yml from the guide has the docker lemmy network set as internal. You need to make it not an Internal network.
Source: Did the same thing with the same problem, on Oracle ARM64 VPS.
I have it running on an arm64 machine with NixOS. If you're up for a bit of a learning curve, try it, it's worth it.
Make sure your Lemmy container has outside internet access. Check my previous post for an example.
https://lemmy.death916.xyz/post/3068
Following because I am interested in hosting an instance on one of my RPi’s
This doesn't look like an ARM64-specific issue. Could you try to docker exec into the container and curl that URL which showed the timeout error? If that fails then something is wrong with your networking setup.
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