Error:the user running the script ("root") is not the owner of "/shared/seafile/seafile-data" folder, you should use the user "UNKNOWN" to run the script

Seafile Server
#1

I am trying to run Seafile in Portainer which is installed in OMV running on a RPi4. Seafile installs fine using Stacks but if I restart the Docker container I get this.
Error: the user running the script (“root”) is not the owner of “/shared/seafile/seafile-data” folder, you should use the user “UNKNOWN” to run the script.
I have tried creating the Volume from portainer GUI and also from CLI docker volume create seafile but same results. Here is my Docker Compose file.
- seafile-net

memcached:
image: memcached:1.5.6
container_name: seafile-memcached
entrypoint: memcached -m 256
restart: always
networks:
- seafile-net

seafile:
image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:latest
container_name: seafile
restart: always
ports:
- 8290:80 # you can change the left side to any open port
volumes:
- seafile:/shared # Requested, specifies the path to Seafile data persistent store.
environment:
- DB_HOST=db
- DB_ROOT_PASSWD=xxxxxx
- TIME_ZONE=Pacific/Auckland
depends_on:
- db
- memcached
networks:
- seafile-net
networks:
seafile-net:
volumes:
seafile:
external: true

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#2

Hi, I’m getting the same error (using docker-compose)

seafile | Error: the user running the script (“root”) is not the owner of “/shared/seafile/seafile-data” folder, you should use the user “UNKNOWN” to run the script.

The error likely started when I ran a script on my filesystem to repair file permissions/ownership for Unraid OS. I had my seafile instance offline for a while and wasn’t monitoring it, when I started it back up it threw that error.

Any idea how to fix this? My seafile server was running fine for a couple years before this problem. I’ve actually migrated to onedrive so it’s not the end of the world, but still I’d like to fix it…

version: '2.0'
services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:10.5
    container_name: seafile-mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=***  # Requested, set the root's password of MySQL service.
      - MYSQL_LOG_CONSOLE=true
    volumes:
      - /mnt/user/seafile7/opt/seafile-mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql  # Requested, specifies the path to MySQL data persistent store.
      - /mnt/user/mybackups/seafile-server:/mybackup # mount for backup destination
    networks:
      - seafile-net
    restart: always

  memcached:
    image: memcached:1.5.6
    container_name: seafile-memcached
    entrypoint: memcached -m 256
    networks:
      - seafile-net
    restart: always

  elasticsearch:
    image: elasticsearch:7.16.2
    container_name: seafile-elasticsearch
    environment:
      - discovery.type=single-node
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms1g -Xmx1g"
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    mem_limit: 2g
    volumes:
      - /mnt/user/seafile7/opt/seafile-elasticsearch/data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data  # Requested, specifies the path to Elasticsearch data persistent store.
    networks:
      - seafile-net
    restart: always
          
  seafile:
    image: docker.seafile.top/seafileltd/seafile-pro-mc:9.0.4
    container_name: seafile
    ports:
      - "8000:80"
#     - "443:443"  # If https is enabled, cancel the comment.
      - "8583:8082"  # seafhttp 8082
      - "8584:8080"  # seafdav 8080
    volumes:
      - /mnt/user/seafile7/opt/seafile-data:/shared   # Requested, specifies the path to Seafile data persistent store.
    environment:
      - DB_HOST=db
      - DB_ROOT_PASSWD=***  # Requested, the value shuold be root's password of MySQL service.
      - TIME_ZONE=America/Los_Angeles # Optional, default is UTC. Should be uncomment and set to your local time zone.
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=*** # Specifies Seafile admin user, default is 'me@example.com'
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=***     # Specifies Seafile admin password, default is 'asecret'
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=false   # Whether to use https or not
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=*** # Specifies your host name if https is enabled
    depends_on:
      - db
      - memcached
      - elasticsearch
    networks:
      - seafile-net
    restart: always

networks:
  seafile-net:
#3

My quick and dirty fix was to login to the container and change the ownership of the

/shared/ directory and make root the owner.

chown root:root --recursive /shared

I’m sure that isn’t the right way to fix it, but it got me out of the current pickle

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#4

hay hi
even i facesd the same issues
this issue is when you use external derive or hard disk path for the volumes it cannot transfer the owner ship of the seafile-mysql for /var/lib/ so at your docker.yml file for the first volumes :
insted of /mnt/user(external hardware path ) just give a system path as fallowing or any path in system itself

volumes : 
-  /opt/seafile-mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql  # Requested, specifies the path to MySQL data persistent store.

second volume can be any of the external drive path

Yet another "the user running the script is not the owner of seafile-data folder
#5

save my ass, thank u

#6

How does one login to the container to change the ownership? I am about as stuck as stuck gets. Same issue, I’m using unraid.