Immich is stuck on "Starting up" for 10+ minutes — should I restart?

Posted by Darkwell93

Just installed SparkBox 1.3.0 on my UGREEN DXP2800 and enabled immich from the App Store. Been 12 minutes and sb-immich-server still shows orange "Starting up..." status on the home page. Other apps like Nextcloud and Jellyfin started fine. Is this normal or is something broken? I can see sb-immich-ml is healthy and sb-immich-db says healthy too. Should I restart or just keep waiting?

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tomspark wrote:

Totally normal — Immich on first start pulls ~3 GB of container images, then the ML service downloads and caches the model files (~1.3 GB more). That's 4+ GB of I/O on first boot, which takes 2–4 minutes even on fast storage. The "Starting up..." status is designed exactly for this case. Since sb-immich-ml and sb-immich-db are healthy, the server is just initializing. Give it another 2–3 minutes, then refresh the dashboard. If it's still orange after 5 minutes total, run docker logs sb-immich-server --tail 50 and paste what you see — but I'm betting it clears shortly. Don't restart yet — that just resets the clock.