Overview: Support for Docker image Glance

Application Name: Glance
Application repository:  https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

Application site : https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

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                                   Glance

 

Make sure to look at the complete documentation

 

Please post any questions/issues relating to this docker template you have in this thread.

mkdir /mnt/user/appdata/glance

 

Copy pasted https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/blob/main/docs/configuration.md#preconfigured-page

To /mnt/user/appdata/glance/glance.yml

 

Config File: /mnt/user/appdata/glance/glance.yml

 

 

Gives error:
failed parsing config file: read glance.yml: is a directory

can you do a :

ls -al /mnt/user/appdata/glance/

 

6 minutes ago, ZappyZap said:

can you do a :

ls -al /mnt/user/appdata/glance/

 

 

total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root   root   20 Jun 10 19:20 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 434 Jun  9 22:04 ../
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users   0 Jun 10 19:20 glance.yml/

please do :
stop the container 
then

cd /mnt/user/appdata/glance/
rm -rf glance.yml

then
vi or nano glance.yml
and paste the content of the exmeple

then 
 

chown nobody:users glance.yml

 

Did it again, but mkdir then touch etc etc.

 

ls -l /mnt/user/appdata/glance/glance.yml
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1765 Jun 10 19:46 /mnt/user/appdata/glance/glance.yml

 

Still same error 

failed parsing config file: read glance.yml: is a directory

1 minute ago, ZappyZap said:

please do :
stop the container 
then

cd /mnt/user/appdata/glance/
rm -rf glance.yml

then
vi or nano glance.yml
and paste the content of the exmeple

then 
 

chown nobody:users glance.yml

 

failed parsing config file: read glance.yml: is a directory

 

you must stop the container 
and make sure the glance.yml is a file not a directory

Edited June 10, 20242 yr by ZappyZap

5 minutes ago, ZappyZap said:

you must stop the container 
and make sure the glance.yml is a file not a directory

Went from the beginning and deleted container/image. 

 

rm -rf glance.yml 
nano glance.yml
chown nobody:users glance.yml

 

Added container again and it worked
 

This is very nice, have been looking for a nice start page for ages. And this is the one. Many thanks!

Nice 

After repeating the steps:
 

remove container

rm -rf glance.yml 

nano glance.yml

chown nobody:users glance.yml

 

 

I'm still faced with the same issue of

 

failed parsing config file: read glance.yml: is a directory

 

 

 

42 minutes ago, patchesholly said:

After repeating the steps:
 

remove container

rm -rf glance.yml 

nano glance.yml

chown nobody:users glance.yml

 

 

I'm still faced with the same issue of

 

failed parsing config file: read glance.yml: is a directory

 

 

 

what is the full path of your `glance.yml` file on the disk ?
and also post your config 

Hey, updated yesterday to Unraid 7.0.0 and my daily appdata backup failed for glance's /etc/timezone mount. The container works fine, but /etc/timezone seems to be missing on my system. Has anyone else seen something like that?

1 hour ago, rawbert said:

Hey, updated yesterday to Unraid 7.0.0 and my daily appdata backup failed for glance's /etc/timezone mount. The container works fine, but /etc/timezone seems to be missing on my system. Has anyone else seen something like that?

Interesting I did not notice 

let me check that 

On 1/26/2025 at 4:41 PM, rawbert said:

Hey, updated yesterday to Unraid 7.0.0 and my daily appdata backup failed for glance's /etc/timezone mount. The container works fine, but /etc/timezone seems to be missing on my system. Has anyone else seen something like that?

I have got exactly the same error message during the appdata backup last night. Have bot found the root cause yet and hope someone can help us.

seems like there is no /etc/timezone on unraid 7.0 
i am looking to see if we can remove the Variable or replace for something else.

No matter how I tried to follow the setups above or the steps in the readme, I could not get it to recognize the glance.yml file.

Any advice for this new update? How will it affect unRAID installs?



https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/blob/main/docs/v0.7.0-upgrade.md

Edited February 11, 20251 yr by Atreides

18 minutes ago, Atreides said:

No matter how I tried to follow the setups above or the steps in the readme, I could not get it to recognize the glance.yml file.

Any advice for this new update? How will it affect unRAID installs?



https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/blob/main/docs/v0.7.0-upgrade.md

I am having the same issue. No matter what permissions I give glance.yml, it overrides the file and turns it into a directory. This has completely bricked Glance for me.

The upgrade worked fine for me. I modified the config argument as follows:

I also got it to work. Started from scratch after a few failed attempts.

 

1. Remove the container and image by left clicking the the glance docker and select Remove from the dropdown.

 

2. Make a directory for the glance.yml file: Use terminal

mkdir /mnt/user/appdata/glance/config

 

3. navigate to the config folder:

cd /mnt/user/appdata/glance/config

 

4. Create the glance.yml file (copy and paste the template from https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/blob/main/docs/glance.yml)

nano glance.yml

Control + X to exit

Save and then you are back at the terminal.

 

5. In terminal:

chown nobody:users glance.yml

 

6.Install the Glance docker now:

Next to the config file on the template click Edit

 

Update the two paths as per below:

 

Container path: /app/config

Host Path: /mnt/user/appdata/glance/config

 

Save

 

7. Change Web UI Port if required.

 

Apply

 

That worked for me.

Glad to see it is working now 
that`s one way of doing it.

the important things is :
Configuration File MUST EXIST BEFORE FIRST RUN

 

On 2/7/2025 at 3:02 PM, ZappyZap said:

seems like there is no /etc/timezone on unraid 7.0 
i am looking to see if we can remove the Variable or replace for something else.

@ZappyZap did you have any success on this? I am still getting the error every time I am running the appdata backup. 

On 2/12/2025 at 5:10 AM, hxii said:

The upgrade worked fine for me. I modified the config argument as follows:

This worked for me! Thanks

20 hours ago, NielsS said:

@ZappyZap did you have any success on this? I am still getting the error every time I am running the appdata backup. 

not yet

I'm still getting the error "/app/config/glance.yml is a directory".

 

The Container path is /app/config and the Host path is /mnt/user/appdata/glance/config and glance.yml is a file not a directory.

 

I'm installing this for the first time.