Unable to initialize

[cxwya]

Describe the bug
After I used Docker Compose to deploy the file, the database failed to initialize, and this error kept appearing: SQLSTATE[HY000] [14] unable to open database file

[denho]

Thank you for reporting this issue, @cxwya

Is this the first time you are installing Faved? Asking this because in case of older installation attempts, there might be an existing storage volume from a previous version with incorrect permissions. If that's the case, you'll need to remove that volume.

How to check and delete the old storage volume

To check the creation date of the storage volume, you can run command volume inspect faved_storage --format '{{.Name}}\t{{.CreatedAt}}'. It will output something like this faved_storage\t2025-09-26T15:43:30Z. If the returned date is older than the current installation date, you can delete it with command docker volume rm faved_storage and try the installation again.

If this doesn't help, please let me know your OS (MacOS/Linux/Windows) and OS version so that I could investigate this further.

[cxwya]

This is not the first time I have installed Faved. The first time was because I was unable to add bookmarks and encountered an error where the database could not be written. Therefore, I redeployed Faved. Before the redeployment, I stopped deleting the container and deleted its mapping file. The final solution was that I saw a closed issue, and after granting permission to the folder 777 that stores data in the container, Faved initialized and bookmarked normally.

[denho]

Ok, so you have a storage volume from an older verion. That explains the problem.

If you don't need the data from previous installation, you can simply remove the volume as described in my previous comment.

If you want to preserve the data, you can run the following command to update the owner of the storage folder to www-data. This should resolved the DB issue.
When running this command, make sure the Docker container is running.

docker exec faved-apache-php-1 chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/storage

Let me know if that helped.

[denho]

Closing due to inactivity.