If mount points offline, unable to continue with other mounts

[pecbeck]

I have several smb mounts from the server running qbfilebrowser. If one is offline (e.g server asleep) then unable to use filebrowser for all other online mounts. Throws error and won't continue

[gtsteffaniak]

Are you sure its an issue with filebrowser? the program is set to allow non-working sources and to continue running.

See #1264

[pecbeck]

All i know is that if any of my mounts are not working, browser fails with error

[gtsteffaniak]

can you show the error?

[pecbeck]

My kitchen PC goes to suspend overnight so my raspberrypi run fb loses mount. Once PC awake, fb starts fine

Watchtower log

time=2025-11-25T03:00:18Z

level=info

msg=Found new ghcr.io/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser:latest image (3b5d646b1d27)

time=2025-11-25T03:00:30Z

level=info

msg=Stopping /filebrowser-quantum (2f3651b3187b) with SIGTERM

time=2025-11-25T03:00:38Z

level=info

msg=Creating /filebrowser-quantum

time=2025-11-25T03:01:09Z

level=error

msg=Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/media/kitchen': mkdir /media/kitchen: file exists

Docker compose up

 ✔ Container filebrowser-quantum  Recreat...                                 0.2s Attaching to filebrowser-quantum

Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/media/kitchen': mkdir /media/kitchen: file exists

[pecbeck]

Also if fb container is running, and the PC suspends, starting fb on raspberrypi spins saying loading until PC wakes, then loads ok.
Eventually I get "something went wrong" then red error saying host offline
I would add screenshot but can't see how to attach it here, link icon at bottom doesn't work

[pecbeck]

BTW, I'm on 1.1.1 beta (using :latest tag)

[gtsteffaniak]

Those aren't FileBrowser application logs, looks like some pre launch error from watchtower?

[pecbeck]

Correct, I was showing the same type of error I get from fb when my kitchen PC is suspended. Irrespective of the watchtower log, fb fails if host is offline. If host is online watchtower updates ok, but if host is offline , watchtower fails per the logs
Do you need any further info, its a solid failure, just trying to help by adding watchtower error too.

[pecbeck]

Here's my compose file. If any of the mounts are offline, fb loads, times out with red host offline dialogue box, then unable to access any other mounts
Am I using this incorrectly? If so, what am I doing wrong
This is a terrific improvement on the original filebrowser, really appreciate your work

services:
filebrowser:
image: ghcr.io/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser:latest
container_name: filebrowser-quantum
ports:
- "89:80"
volumes:
- ./config:/folder
- ./data:/home/filebrowser/data
- /media/kitchen:/folder/kitchen
- /media/HDD:/folder/pi5_HDD
- /media/usb_pi4:/folder/usb_pi4
- /media/usb1_pi4:/folder/usb1_pi4
- /media/pi:/folder/pi
environment:
FILEBROWSER_CONFIG: "data/config.yaml"
FILEBROWSER_ADMIN_PASSWORD: "change-me"
PUID: "1000"
PGID: "1000"
restart: unless-stopped

Config.yaml
server:
sources:
- path: /folder
config:
defaultEnabled: true

[pecbeck]

[Kurami32]

@pecbeck the config that you send here is the config that you're using?

If so, why you're mounting all your sources as a single source? Maybe that's the issue...

Try to separate them in config.yaml, like this:

server:
  sources:
    - path: /folder/kitchen
      config:
        defaultEnabled: true
    - path: /folder/pi5_HDD
      config:
       defaultEnabled: true
    - path: /folder/usb_pi4
      config:
        defaultEnabled: true
    - path: /folder/usb1_pi4
      config:
        defaultEnabled: true
    - path: /folder/pi
      config:
        defaultEnabled: true

I think with that should work, and if not, show the filebrowser logs here, not the watchtower logs.

docker logs filebrowser-quantum

[pecbeck]

I posted my compose.yaml earlier asking for help if I'm using this incorrectly. I honestly don't understand your post, is this the config yaml file or the docker compose yaml. Sorry if I'm being dim but I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I posted the watchtower logs because it showed a failure due to kitchen being offline, trying to help identify this problem

[pecbeck]

My config.yaml

server:
sources:
- path: /folder
config:
defaultEnabled: true

Everything works perfectly until one of the sources in my compose.yaml goes offline

[Kurami32]

Is the configuration file of filebrowser (config.yaml), is a different file from docker-compose.yaml.
I was saying to try configure your sources like that to see if works.

Because from your docker-compose.yaml I see that you have all the sources in the same /folder, and then in config.yaml, you have only one source configured.

[pecbeck]

Ok so I need to basically duplicate the binds in my docker compose with those in config.yaml?