Permissions for n8n Chart?

Apps and Virtualization
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Has anyone figured out the required file system permissions for the storage for Postgres etc with the n8n Chart? No matter what I try, including 999:999 full ownership + rwx, the PG container gets upset about not being able to set the permissions where it expects to put the database:

The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

Data page checksums are disabled.

initdb: error: could not change permissions of directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data": Operation not permitted
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“Operation not permitted” sounds like you have ACLs enabled on the dataset in question. If you do, you’ll need to remove them.

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I don’t think so but I will check that out. Ty!

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I have exact same issue with NextCloud. Did you ever figure this out? I followed the instructions on this page, but having trouble with PG still :frowning:

2024-08-02 20:00:58.051516+03:00 initdb: error: could not change permissions of directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data": Operation not permitted
2024-08-02 20:00:58.052177+03:00 fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ...

And deployment fails with:

Back-off restarting failed container nextcloud in pod nextcloud-postgres-86879bb867-8j25v_ix-nextcloud(63a8e371-6a1e-4c13-b952-a42dcd592ad8)

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No, sorry. And I actually moved off of TrueNAS for app hosting.

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If someone stumbles upon this, I just deleted all related datasets and recreated fresh. Changed all (including parent) owner user and group to apps. Also added www-data user and group to all these related datasets with full control. Nextcloud deployed on first try :man_shrugging: