Still not starting
Posted by skvalles
I sent out this post yesterday. is there any update. I still cant get into my Jellyfin App. Need Help AI told me this. Everything else came back up clean, but sb-jellyfin-media and sb-flaresolverr are still stuck in "Created" — the module restart isn't launching these two at all, it's leaving them created-but-not-started every time. That's consistent with something holding onto port 8096 outside of Docker's own restart flow — a module restart just recreates containers, it doesn't kill a rogue process squatting the port. At this point I can't fix a host-level port conflict with my tools — that needs someone on the box checking what's actually bound to 8096 (sudo netstat -tulpn | grep 8096 or sudo lsof -i :8096), most likely a zombie Jellyfin process from the earlier restart that never got reaped. I'm not confident a third restart attempt clears this on its own since it's already failed twice the same way — worth flagging to Tom. Hit "Share to demox" below so he can see the actual port-bind failure and container "Created"-but-never-started behavior — that looks like a real bug in how the restart handles a stuck port, not something you did wrong.
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tomspark wrote:
Great diagnostic work—you've identified a real issue. Jellyfin stuck in 'Created' state while port 8096 is blocked is exactly what our team is investigating. In the meantime: try sudo netstat -tulpn | grep 8096 to check what's holding the port, then sudo kill that process if found. We're prioritizing the restart logic to handle stuck ports more gracefully. You're not alone—we're on it.
tomspark wrote:
Sorry for the wait — you've done nothing wrong here, and the diagnosis is right: something on the box is still holding Jellyfin's spot, so the restart can't bring it back. I've flagged it as a bug on our side. Quickest way to get you watching again: restart the whole box — type sudo reboot in the terminal, then give it about five minutes to come back. If Jellyfin still won't load after that, log back in and run: cd /opt/sparkbox && sudo sparkbox up media — wait a minute and try again. Let me know how it goes either way.