Three install-experience bugs that compounded into MrGabri's "fresh
install fails" report:
1. **postgres healthcheck noise.** `pg_isready -U <user>` without
-d defaults to probing a database whose name matches the user.
Since DB_NAME defaults to picpeak_prod (not picpeak), every
healthcheck interval logged
FATAL: database "picpeak" does not exist
into postgres logs even though the install was working
correctly. Reporter saw the FATAL, assumed broken, restarted
with DB_NAME=picpeak, hit a tainted-state migration error on
the second try, filed a bug. Fixed in both
docker-compose.production.yml and the inline compose generated
by scripts/picpeak-setup.sh — pin -d to ${DB_NAME} so the
probe hits the real database.
2. **backend container shows perpetually `unhealthy`.** Both
compose files used `curl -f` for the backend healthcheck, but
backend/Dockerfile only installs dumb-init + postgresql-client +
ffmpeg — no curl. Switch to wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider
to match what backend/Dockerfile's own HEALTHCHECK already
does. Now docker ps, docker compose ps, and the backend image's
built-in healthcheck all agree.
3. **stale separate `workers` container.** scripts/picpeak-setup.sh
still generated a second container running `npm run workers`
alongside the backend, but workers (fileWatcher,
expirationChecker, emailQueueProcessor, backgroundProcessor,
webhookWorker) have been started by server.js in-process for
a while — see the comment at line ~895 of the same script for
the systemd-side cleanup. The duplicate container caused two
file watchers and two expiration checkers to compete for the
same DB rows. Removed from the generated compose; install +
upgrade paths now stop and rm any pre-existing picpeak-workers
container.
Doesn't address issue B's bigger architecture mismatch (the script
generates a build-from-source compose with no frontend container,
while docker-compose.production.yml uses prebuilt images with a
separate frontend container). That deserves its own design pass
to pick a canonical install path and align — out of scope here.
Paul Nothaft
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