When should I just start over? Is it that easy?

Posted by dice_dj

I had all of the media apps running on my UGreen through docker before finding Sparkbox. It was very faulty. My first set-up. I switched to sparkbox and it is much easier to see the flaws in my system, but I feel like I'm playing wack-a-mole. Everytime I get the jellyfin media bundle up and running, I walk away and when I go back to it there is another issue. I must've fixed my folder permissions about 5 times and arr connections with qbit are shaky at best. These issues may be due to my previous setup before restarting through sparkbox. Is it worth it to keep grinding on little fixes or should I clear it and start over cleaner?

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Chris wrote:

Your instinct here is right — fixing folder permissions five times plus a shaky qBittorrent connection isn't a keep-grinding situation, it's a sign the old Docker setup is still getting in the way. Leftover containers from before SparkBox can keep running and grab the same ports and folders, which looks exactly like this. The good news: starting over doesn't touch your media. Your movies and TV stay right where they are on the drives — a clean start only rebuilds the SparkBox half. I'd say yes, do the clean start, and I'll walk you through it. First tell me: are you on a UGREEN NAS or a regular Linux box? The steps differ a little and I don't want to guess.

dice_dj wrote:

I am on a UGREEN NAS. DXP2800 running through the web interface with a docker app

Chris wrote:

That settles it — a UGREEN makes the clean start nice and simple, and nothing on your drives gets touched. Step one: open UGOS's own Docker app (the one you used before SparkBox) and stop then remove the containers you set up by hand — your old Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr and the rest. Those are separate from SparkBox, and they're what keeps grabbing the same ports and folders. Removing them only clears those old containers; your movies and TV stay on the drives. Step two: open a terminal on the NAS and run sudo sparkbox up, then give it a few minutes to rebuild SparkBox's stack fresh. Tell me what it prints and we'll go from there.

dice_dj wrote:

I tried one more attempt to fix the issues with Tom AI and I think we finally found the root of the problem. For the first time the dashboard is all green and everything connects. I will keep in mind that I can do a restart if needed. Thanks