I’m trying to get Lemmy up and running on an Ubuntu 22.04 host. I’ve followed this guide supplemented by googling.

I can actually get to the front end, but it gives me “There was an error on the server.” When I dig into the logs, I see this:

"thread 'main' panicked at 'Error connecting to postgres://lemmy:<my pg password>@postgres:5432/lemmy: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user \"lemmy\"\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2023-06-26T03:14:17.47460915Z"}

The only thing I can find about this error related to Lemmy is this thread, which indicates that the password was not defined in the docker-compose.yml file prior to starting the containers. I have since redone the configuration three times, each time deleting the volumes folder and double-checking that my postgre password is correct both in docker-compose.yml and lemmy.hjson.

Any ideas what might be the problem? Thank you kindly for any help you can provide!

  • Hopfgeist@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Just a small point, it is never called “postgre”. The original database was called “Postgres”, and became “PostgreSQL” when it switched to the SQL query language. Today it is referred to either by its full name or as Postgres, always with an “s”. I was initially quite confused by the title.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you! I did figure that out as I got further along into this… so much new stuff to learn!!