Hello!
We’ve been successfully using Seafile Community Edition 12.0.11 for about a month now. Today I tried modifying the configuration so that a non-root user could backup the data tree on disk. Unfortunately this broke the seafile-mysql container somehow.
I was trying to follow the instructions in the manual under “Run Seafile as non root user inside docker,” following the instructions as follows:
First deploy Seafile with docker, and destroy the containers.
docker compose down
Then add the NON_ROOT=true to the .env.
NON_ROOT=true
Then modify /opt/seafile-data/seafile/ permissions.
chmod -R a+rwx /opt/seafile-data/seafile/
Start Seafile:
docker compose up -d
Now however the seafile-mysql container fails to start. It remains in “unhealthy” status, failing with the following error forever:
seafile-mysql | 2025-05-18 23:19:25 3 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
seafile-mysql | 2025-05-18 23:19:25 4 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'::1' (using password: NO)
seafile-mysql | 2025-05-18 23:19:30 5 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
seafile-mysql | 2025-05-18 23:19:30 6 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'::1' (using password: NO)
I also tried running
sudo docker compose up -d
But I still get the same error.
Did running chmod -R a+rwx /opt/seafile-data/seafile/ somehow mess up the DB? That is where the DB data files live as well.
Thanks for the help