searxng restart problem

[yogibear54]

Problem:

• searxng was not able to start properly due to trying to create config files
• the log recorded permission issue with creating uwsgi.ini and also settings.yml

Solution:

• This is most likely a permission issue? Anyway, dropping cap_drop provides more permissions for the container...
• I encountered this on an ubuntu and popos machine - so the problem could be specific to OS

[coleam00]

Probably is OS specific, but thanks for this Chris! Since you had a question in the solution, could you clarify if the cap_drop change does indeed fix it for Linux?

[PrymalInstynct]

I am running this project in Linux and I had to do this manually after starting the project for the first time. I found that searxng was in a crashed state with an error in the container log about permission denied to uwsgi.ini. That lead me to this issue in the Searxng repo, which contained the solution.

[Reaper176]

I can confirm this is an issue and that you do in fact have to remove cap-drop on first run after which you need to re-enable it for security. <3