[BUG] Container does not start after manually importing data dump

[mpeter50]

Describe the bug

My country does not have a premade Photon database, so I wanted to import a jsonl data dump. I did so with this command:

zstd --stdout -d ../photon-dump-hungary-0.7-latest.jsonl.zst | sudo docker compose run --rm --no-TTY photon java $JAVA_OPTS -jar photon.jar -nominatim-import -import-file -

The import finished, but if I start the container normally with docker compose, the startup script ignores my setting to not update, deletes the database that I have imported manually, and then crashes because I did not give it internet access:

To Reproduce

1. Use docker compose service definition included below
2. Download JSON data dump: https://download1.graphhopper.com/public/europe/hungary/index.html
3. Import JSON data dump with the command above
4. Start up container: sudo docker compose up photon

Expected behavior

I expected that using UPDATE_STRATEGY=DISABLED, the startup script will skip the download procedure and start up Photon, which would use the imported database.

photon-docker configuration:

networks:
    default:
        internal: true

services:
    photon:
        image: rtuszik/photon-docker:1.1.0
        environment:
          #- UPDATE_STRATEGY=PARALLEL
          #- REGION=hu
          - UPDATE_STRATEGY=DISABLED
        volumes:
          - photon-data:/photon/data

System Info

• Host OS: Debian
• Host Type: VM
• Hardware details:
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200
  • Available RAM: 6 GB
  • Storage Type: HDD
  • Storage Size: 4 TB, but only 40 GB available.

Debug Logs

photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,217 - root - INFO - Photon Manager starting...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,217 - root - INFO - Running initial setup...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,614 - root - INFO - No APPRISE_URLS set, skipping notification.
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,614 - root - INFO - === CONFIG VARIABLES ===
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,615 - root - INFO - UPDATE_STRATEGY: DISABLED
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,618 - root - INFO - UPDATE_INTERVAL: 30d
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,619 - root - INFO - REGION: None
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,619 - root - INFO - FORCE_UPDATE: False
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,620 - root - INFO - PHOTON_PARAMS: None
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,620 - root - INFO - JAVA_PARAMS: None
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,620 - root - INFO - LOG_LEVEL: INFO
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,621 - root - INFO - BASE_URL: https://r2.koalasec.org/public
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,621 - root - INFO - SKIP_MD5_CHECK: False
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,622 - root - INFO - === END CONFIG VARIABLES ===
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,622 - root - INFO - Validating environment variables...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,622 - root - INFO - Environment variables are valid.
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,623 - root - INFO - Starting initial download using sequential strategy
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,623 - root - INFO - Note: Initial download will use sequential strategy regardless of config setting
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,624 - root - INFO - Starting sequential download process...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,624 - root - INFO - Deleting old index...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,737 - root - WARNING - Could not determine remote file size for https://r2.koalasec.org/public/photon-db-planet-0.7OS-latest.tar.bz2: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='r2.koalasec.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /public/photon-db-planet-0.7OS-latest.tar.bz2 (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f6b3e4709e0>: Failed to resolve 'r2.koalasec.org' ([Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution)"))
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,737 - root - WARNING - Could not determine download size, proceeding without space check
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,739 - root - INFO - Downloading new index and MD5 checksum...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,745 - root - WARNING - Download attempt 1 failed: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='r2.koalasec.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /public/photon-db-planet-0.7OS-latest.tar.bz2 (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f6b3e4ae6c0>: Failed to resolve 'r2.koalasec.org' ([Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution)"))
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,747 - root - INFO - Retrying download (attempt 2/3)...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,753 - root - WARNING - Download attempt 2 failed: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='r2.koalasec.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /public/photon-db-planet-0.7OS-latest.tar.bz2 (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f6b3e4aedb0>: Failed to resolve 'r2.koalasec.org' ([Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution)"))
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,755 - root - INFO - Retrying download (attempt 3/3)...
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,760 - root - WARNING - Download attempt 3 failed: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='r2.koalasec.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /public/photon-db-planet-0.7OS-latest.tar.bz2 (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f6b3e4af4a0>: Failed to resolve 'r2.koalasec.org' ([Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution)"))
photon-1  | 2025-09-27 21:00:47,761 - root - ERROR - Download failed after 3 attempts

[rtuszik]

Not the use case I had in mind with DISABLE-UPDATES. It is meant to prevent updates after an initial download.
I'll look into adding another flag or similar.

I am also planning to enhance support for jsonl dumps in the future (#122)

[rtuszik]

I have added an INITIAL_DOWNLOAD` flag that avoids downloading. Hope this fixes your issue.