Jellyfin Container Creation Failed

[wetmarble]

✅ Have you read and understood the above guidelines?

yes

📜 What is the name of the script you are using?

Jellyfin Media Server

📂 What was the exact command used to execute the script?

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/ct/jellyfin.sh)"

⚙️ What settings are you using?

• Default Settings
• Advanced Settings

🖥️ Which Linux distribution are you using?

Ubuntu 24.04

📝 Provide a clear and concise description of the issue.

When running the script, I get the error message:

Container creation failed. Checking if template is corrupted or incomplete.
Template is valid, but container creation still failed.

[ERROR] in line 999: exit code 0: while executing command bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/misc/create_lxc.sh)" $?

🔄 Steps to reproduce the issue.

1. run bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/ct/jellyfin.sh)" in the proxmox shell

❌ Paste the full error output (if available).

⚙️ Using Default Settings on node pve
🖥️ Operating System: ubuntu
🌟 Version: 24.04
📦 Container Type: Unprivileged
💾 Disk Size: 8 GB
🧠 CPU Cores: 2
🛠️ RAM Size: 2048 MiB
🆔 Container ID: 109
🚀 Creating a Jellyfin LXC using the above default settings

✔️ Using local for Template Storage.
✔️ Using local-lvm for Container Storage.
✔️ LXC Template List Updated
✔️ LXC Template 'ubuntu-24.04-standard_24.04-2_amd64.tar.zst' is ready to use.
✖️ Container creation failed. Checking if template is corrupted or incomplete.
✖️ Template is valid, but container creation still failed.

[ERROR] in line 999: exit code 0: while executing command bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/misc/create_lxc.sh)" $?

🖼️ Additional context (optional).

No response

[MickLesk]

Thats Not the Script, its before the Install running. The creation of LXC failed in this Case because maybe all ubuntu repos cannot crawled, you got massive issues in networking or blocking DNS/adblock

[ci4ic4]

Any and every script I try to run on my two ProxmoxVE servers finishes with exactly the same. Something is definitely broken. I thought it was to do with my setup, but I see I am not alone.

Both my servers are on

uname -a
Linux pmox 6.14.5-1-bpo12-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PMX 6.14.5-1~bpo12+1 (2025-05-21T15:55Z) x86_64 GNU/Linux

and

pveversion
pve-manager/8.4.1/2a5fa54a8503f96d (running kernel: 6.14.5-1-bpo12-pve)

The last attempt I had just now was with netbox.

[ci4ic4]

Another data point - in case anyone is interested. I ran the netbox.sh installation script with the default settings, it failed as before. Thinking that I might get more information about the failure, I repeated it with 'bash -xv' and it eventually finished, and after some cryptic error message on login now I have an apparently functional container. I did not make any other changes between the two runs.

[wetmarble]

I was able to successfully install an Immich LXC using the install script, but Jellyfin fails. I will try with bash -xv.

[MickLesk]

It's definitely your host. I have deployed the script several times today, even on a new VM. It runs everywhere. It does not crash at jellyfin, but already when creating the LXC. So well before the script. So I can tell you in advance that it can't be due to jellyfin. Take a look at the create_lxc, maybe you will find clues as to what is not working with your setup.

you can try this one:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVED/main/ct/jellyfin.sh)"

=> run in verbose

[MickLesk]

uname -a Linux pmox 6.14.5-1-bpo12-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PMX 6.14.5-1~bpo12+1 (2025-05-21T15:55Z) x86_64 GNU/Linux

what did you do with your pve? the current kernel is 6.8.4-3 or 6.8.12-11 not 6.14.5-1 ?

[ci4ic4]

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/opt-in-linux-6-14-kernel-for-proxmox-ve-8-available-on-test-no-subscription.164497/

[MickLesk]

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/opt-in-linux-6-14-kernel-for-proxmox-ve-8-available-on-test-no-subscription.164497/

phew, very experimental. I can only setup an vm, i dont destroy my homelab or dev pc's for this 😄

[ci4ic4]

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/opt-in-linux-6-14-kernel-for-proxmox-ve-8-available-on-test-no-subscription.164497/

phew, very experimental. I can only setup an vm, i dont destroy my homelab or dev pc's for this 😄

Fair enough, and yet, somebody still has to test it... I won't be surprised if the issue in question is related somehow to this.

[tautomer]

I got this problem when creating an Alpine LXC from configuration file. BTW, the script was complaining about ENABLE_TUN is unbounded, so I added ENABLE_TUN="no" to the configuration file. I am not sure what it does at all or if it results in the error.

Creation with manually typing everything works fine.

[ci4ic4]

There is another problem with these scripts - at least on some I've tried. When you go over the installation sequence, it allows you to save the setup configuration in /opt/community-scripts, but the resulting saved parameters cannot be reused unless the file is modified. In my case I had to apply a similar change:

@@ -9,17 +9,17 @@
 BRG="vmbr0"
 APT_CACHER_IP="none"
 DISABLEIP6="yes"
-PW='-password VERYSECRET'
+PW='VERYSECRET'
 SSH="yes"
 SSH_AUTHORIZED_KEY=""
 VERBOSE="yes"
 TAGS="community-script;network"
 VLAN="none"
 MTU="1500"
-GATE=",gw=192.168.0.1"
+GATE="192.168.0.1"
 SD="-searchdomain=whatever.lan"
 MAC="none"
-NS="-nameserver=192.168.0.3 192.168.0.41"
+NS="192.168.0.3"
 NET="192.168.0.8/24"
-FUSE="yes"
-
+ENABLE_FUSE="yes"
+ENABLE_TUN="yes"

(so yes, you have to add ENABLE_TUN=yes).

[MickLesk]

That's something completely different. We can't fix the issue itself, so I'm closing it.