Hello everyone,

I'm facing a critical issue with my self-hosted Immich setup (v1.141.1) running on Unraid via Docker Compose. The service starts up, but Immich remains unreachable and shows repeated, blocking errors in the logs:

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND database
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookupall [as oncomplete] (node:dns:122:26)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)

I did a clean install using Docker Compose and then restored the database from an old installation (Postgres16) via the official site (link).

Everything worked fine for the first few hours, but then Immich became inaccessible with these errors (see logs).
I attached the logs and the docker compose files.

Thanks for the help !

Immich_log.txt Immich_Stack.txt Immich_Stack_env.txt

Edited September 11, 2025Sep 11 by Jayce1781

I think immich cannot communicate with your postgresql container because they are not in the same network.

As a side-note, you should not use disk-shares in your container paths. You use:

UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/disk2/Photos/Immich/library and DB_DATA_LOCATION=/mnt/cache/appdata/postgres

Normally we use:

UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/user/Photos/Immich/library and DB_DATA_LOCATION=/mnt/user/appdata/postgres

Edited September 27, 2025Sep 27 by Aran