Adam Melkus adam
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adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@Zie0 commented on GitHub (Feb 19, 2026):

Any chance this will be addressed soon?

I run all my self-hosted services with podman quadlet and ABS is the only of eleven that requires that it's…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@ratsputin commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

Thank you for your help!

<img width="1123" height="696" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4134f87a-703e-4b1b-ae8c-24986d57…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@Vylyne commented on GitHub (Feb 20, 2026):

It could probably benefit from adding the VOLUME instruction too.

I'd suggest we open the VOLUME instruction request as a Feature Request so it can…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@ratsputin commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

Oh, and I did play the m4b file back in VLC and it displayed that same cover so the picture definitely came from the file.

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@Zie0 commented on GitHub (Feb 24, 2026):

I run all my self-hosted services with podman quadlet and ABS is the only of eleven that requires that it's run as root. ~~This messes up bind mounts…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@ratsputin commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

Incidentally, as a side note, if I go to the authors page, it automatically populates their images and a bunch of new image files show up in…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@ratsputin commented on GitHub (Jul 11, 2025):

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but I tried turning on "Ignore prefixes when sorting" and now about 2/3 of the books in my library have the…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:32 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@ratsputin commented on GitHub (Jul 11, 2025):

Okay, this is interesting. I started playing with this a bit more and cleared the cache again. Once the library images repopulated, I went and…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@plz12345 commented on GitHub (Aug 3, 2025):

I'm hitting this too, while trying to migrate an existing working container from Synology to Unraid. Unraid is pretty restrictive on file permissions,…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

What happened?

After restoring a backup taken last weekend, all of my audiobook covers are showing as invalid in the library and items…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@Vylyne commented on GitHub (Sep 25, 2025):

It seems like the standard solution used by groups like the linuxserver.io and others is to use PID and GID Environment variables, instead of the user…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@ratsputin commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

Here is a screenshot of the specific item I was talking about. The image shown in the background is the one that Audiobookshelf apparently…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@Vylyne commented on GitHub (Sep 26, 2025):

Okay took a crack at this. And I've created a draft pull request. Feel free to take a look. #4700

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

Here is a screenshot of the specific item I was talking about. The image shown in the background is the one that Audiobookshelf apparently…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@Vylyne commented on GitHub (Sep 30, 2025):

I've actually got another way to think about this user directive now other then the PUID GUID environment variables.

Further investigation into how…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@mill1000 commented on GitHub (Oct 3, 2025):

What' I'd do is add ARGs for UID and GID, and default them to the IDs currently used. Then make sure to chmod everything that the service touches to…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@ratsputin commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

Audiobookshelf only downloads cover images if you accept the Match, use Quick Match, or use the cover picker and select one of the images.…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@mill1000 commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2026):

I took another look at this and updated my PR to use the VOLUME instruction that @plz12345 highlighted as well.

Adding VOLUME helps tell the user…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2879 2026-04-25 00:11:31 +02:00
[Bug]: Book covers not working after restoring backup

@nichwall commented on GitHub (Jul 10, 2025):

Audiobookshelf only downloads cover images if you accept the Match, use Quick Match, or use the cover picker and select one of the images.…

adam commented on issue starred/audiobookshelf#2880 2026-04-25 00:11:30 +02:00
[Bug]: Unable to start container with non-root user

@mill1000 commented on GitHub (Jul 15, 2025):

At runtime? I think the container is running as the specific user immediately if using the user option.

I looked at few other implementation. It…