Docker compose causes 'yaml: unmarshal errors:'

Seafile Server
1

Try to fresh install from manual (to convert my local seafile installation later to docker).

https://manual.seafile.com/latest/setup/setup_ce_by_docker/#install-docker

But no matter if I change the .env or use the original .env, I get the error message. Equal if I use an absolute path or the file in the path self

root@server:/opt/seafile/docker > docker compose -f .env up -d
yaml: unmarshal errors:
  line 1: cannot unmarshal !!str `COMPOSE...` into cli.named

root@server:/opt/seafile/docker > ll
insgesamt 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   95  8. Jun 11:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  112  8. Jun 10:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  646  8. Jun 11:09 caddy.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  931  6. Jun 15:02 .env
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1102  8. Jun 11:15 .env.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1483  8. Jun 11:10 seadoc.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2651  8. Jun 11:10 seafile-server.yml
root@server:/opt/seafile/docker >
2

I think the error about yaml unmarshaling is complaining about parsing one of those config files. I had that error happen when my text editor replaced some spaces with tabs, but I can’t guess what problem it’s seeing with your files.

You can try the “docker-compose logs” command to see if it will give you a more specific error about what’s wrong with the configs, or you could try posting your configs here to see if someone can spot the error.

3

Thats all the original files from manual.

The only difference is the target directory.

mkdir /opt/seafile
cd /opt/seafile

# Seafile CE 12.0
wget -O .env https://manual.seafile.com/12.0/repo/docker/ce/env
wget https://manual.seafile.com/12.0/repo/docker/seadoc.yml
wget https://manual.seafile.com/12.0/repo/docker/ce/seafile-server.yml
wget https://manual.seafile.com/12.0/repo/docker/caddy.yml

Even with the unchanged .env file, I get this error.

My system is Debian 12.

…

The only difference is the target directory.

Yes, must change the yml-Files to other directory:

root@server:/opt/seafile/docker 493 > grep seafile *.yml
caddy.yml:    container_name: seafile-caddy
caddy.yml:      - CADDY_INGRESS_NETWORKS=seafile-net
caddy.yml:      - ${SEAFILE_CADDY_VOLUME:-/opt/seafile-caddy}:/data/caddy
caddy.yml:      - seafile-net
caddy.yml:  seafile-net:
caddy.yml:    name: seafile-net
seadoc.yml:    image: ${SEADOC_IMAGE:-seafileltd/sdoc-server:1.0-latest}
seadoc.yml:      - DB_USER=${SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_USER:-seafile}
seadoc.yml:      - seafile-net
seadoc.yml:  seafile-net:
seadoc.yml:    name: seafile-net
seafile-server.yml:    container_name: seafile-mysql
seafile-server.yml:      - "${SEAFILE_MYSQL_VOLUME:-/opt/seafile-mysql/db}:/var/lib/mysql"
seafile-server.yml:      - seafile-net
seafile-server.yml:    container_name: seafile-memcached
seafile-server.yml:      - seafile-net
seafile-server.yml:  seafile:
seafile-server.yml:    image: ${SEAFILE_IMAGE:-seafileltd/seafile-mc:12.0-latest}
seafile-server.yml:    container_name: seafile
seafile-server.yml:      - ${SEAFILE_VOLUME:-/opt/seafile-data}:/shared
seafile-server.yml:      - DB_USER=${SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_USER:-seafile}
seafile-server.yml:      - SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_SEAFILE_DB_NAME=${SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_SEAFILE_DB_NAME:-seafile_db}
seafile-server.yml:      - seafile-net
seafile-server.yml:  seafile-net:
seafile-server.yml:    name: seafile-net
4

Hm… Must not change yml-files - they have the environement variables from the .env file. The absolute paths in there are default vaules, if environment is not defined.

Here is my .env:

COMPOSE_FILE='seafile-server.yml,caddy.yml,seadoc.yml'
COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR=','

SEAFILE_IMAGE=seafileltd/seafile-mc:12.0-latest
SEAFILE_DB_IMAGE=mariadb:10.11
SEAFILE_MEMCACHED_IMAGE=memcached:1.6.29
SEAFILE_CADDY_IMAGE=lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy:2.9-alpine

SEAFILE_VOLUME=/opt/seafile/docker/seafile-data
SEAFILE_MYSQL_VOLUME=/opt/seafile/docker/seafile-mysql/db
SEAFILE_CADDY_VOLUME=/opt/seafile/docker/seafile-caddy

SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_HOST=db
INIT_SEAFILE_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD='Q+pTK4dZlNEhcJL7NAni'
SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_USER=seafile
SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_PASSWORD='uQgA-H43CwaVQQn4Ui4-6'

TIME_ZONE=Etc/UTC

JWT_PRIVATE_KEY=Pw4ZGLCxJexIFP33o1nURyXEVY4oDjInbtg37F1M

SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=blackedout.name.de
SEAFILE_SERVER_PROTOCOL=http

INIT_SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=blacked.mail@gmail.de
INIT_SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=USgWHxxPbgWKmCN2TkPK18f7QfMW3FHU6XMuvi1y


SEADOC_IMAGE=seafileltd/sdoc-server:1.0-latest
SEADOC_VOLUME=/opt/seafile/docker/seadoc-data

ENABLE_SEADOC=true


NOTIFICATION_SERVER_IMAGE=seafileltd/notification-server:12.0-latest
NOTIFICATION_SERVER_VOLUME=/opt/seafile/notification-dat
5

That all looks fine to me. So maybe the problem is something that isn’t visible. I used podman instead of docker so I can’t verify this, but I think it needs to make a temp file, so maybe you need to give the docker user write access to that directory “chmod 777 .”. The other thing I can think of is that maybe one of those files has the windows newlines instead of unix style, so try “dos2unix *”.

I can’t think of anything else, but maybe if you can get more details from that “docker-compose logs” command we might get another clue.

6

Neither chmod on the directories nor dos2unix worked.

docker compose logs has empty output

If I try it with podman, is there a how-to for seafile, similar to docker?

7

There is no official howto for installing with podman that I know of, but I wrote up my own little guide after I got it working.