Upgrade to 24.10.2 - Tailscale fails to start

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Finally took the plunge this morning and upgraded my backup NAS from 24.04.5 to 24.10.2. The upgrade seems to have been successful, the two non-TrueCharts I had installed have migrated over, but one of them (Tailscale) now won’t start. The migration log shows only:

admin@nas[/var/log]$ sudo cat app_migrations.log
[2025/03/19 06:15:39] (DEBUG) app_migrations.migrate():250 - Migration details for 'system-update--2025-03-19_10:11:04' backup on 'software' pool
[2025/03/19 06:15:39] (DEBUG) app_migrations.migrate():253 - 'fasten' app migrated successfully
[2025/03/19 06:15:39] (DEBUG) app_migrations.migrate():253 - 'tailscale' app migrated successfully

app_lifecycle.log is completely empty. When I try to start the Tailscale app, it goes into a “Deploying” state for about a second, switches to “Stopped,” and then repeats the cycle 5-6 times before settling on “Stopped.” No error is given that I can see.

Not quite sure where to start on this–any suggestions?

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Are you able to monitor the container logs while it’s trying to start to see if there is anything useful there? If it’s failing that quickly you might not get the chance though.

Otherwise maybe post your configuration for Tailscale and someone might spot an issue.

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That’s the problem–I can’t even mouse over to that button before it stops and restarts.

It’s nothing too unique other that I’m connecting to my own Headscale server using an “extra argument” of --login-server https://foo. I’m going to try a new installation with the same config and see what it does. …and what it did was start and run just fine. Not sure where the problem was, but at least this isn’t a hard one to reinstall.

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