Sparkebox install hanging

Posted by Newworld

I think I posted this originally in the wrong area. Sorry... Hi I'm really new at all of this, so much so it has taken a little while to figure out how to get the the terminal prompt. I ran the script but it froze at the Boot self-heal enabled line. I came complete out of it thinking I had done something wrong and then re ran it. But the same thing has happened again. It's been hanging for 20 mins and there is very little on my nas Please could yo have a look at this and let me know what i've miss? [SparkBox] Downloading SparkBox... [SparkBox] Verifying release integrity... [SparkBox] SHA256 digest verified [SparkBox] ed25519 signature verified [SparkBox] Stopping running containers for a safe upgrade snapshot... [INFO] Stopping SparkBox... Warning: No resource found to remove for project "sparkbox". time="2026-06-27T22:40:54+01:00" level=warning msg="The \"SBADMINPASSWORDHASH\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string." Warning: No resource found to remove for project "sparkbox". [OK] SparkBox stopped. [SparkBox] Upgrade applied atomically. Rollback copy preserved at /opt/sparkbox.rollback-1782596454 until health probe confirms success. [SparkBox] SparkBox downloaded to /opt/sparkbox [SparkBox] SparkBox installed to /opt/sparkbox 100 155k 100 155k 0 0 49543 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 49553 [SparkBox] NAS mode: skipping firewall configuration. [SparkBox] Configure port forwarding through your NAS or router admin panel. [SparkBox] Non-interactive install detected (piped from curl). Skipping wizard. [SparkBox] Bringing up core services so the dashboard is reachable... [SparkBox] Keeping existing .env from previous install. [SparkBox] Rendering module templates... [SparkBox] Pi-hole pre-configured with NAS telemetry blocklist [SparkBox] Gotify admin password pre-seeded (plaintext saved to state/gotify-admin-password.txt) [SparkBox] FileBrowser admin password pre-seeded (init runs after first boot via filebrowser-init.sh) [SparkBox] qBittorrent admin password pre-seeded (plaintext saved to state/qbittorrent-admin-password.txt) [SparkBox] Boot self-heal enabled (sparkbox-boot.service runs 'sparkbox up' after every reboot) Many thanks

2 replies

tomspark wrote:

You didn't do anything wrong, and re-running it was totally fine. Here's the thing: that 'Boot self-heal enabled' line is near the END of setup. Right after it, SparkBox quietly downloads all the apps, and that part has no progress bar, so it looks frozen even though it's working. On a NAS that download can take 10 to 30 minutes depending on your internet speed. To see whether it's actually running, open a second terminal into your NAS and run: sudo docker ps If you see rows with names like sb-pihole, sb-jellyfin and so on appearing, it's working, just leave the first window alone and let it finish. If after another 20-30 minutes that list is still empty, reply here and we'll check your internet/download side. What kind of internet speed does the NAS have, roughly?

Newworld wrote:

Hi Thanks for responding so quickly. I've finally been able to try your suggestion and it has worked and downlaoded 😀. I now about to dive in and start adding some of the Apps. Thank you so much for help and putting in the time and effect in creating this.