Podman compatibility

[S4r4h-O]

What happened?

OS: Win11 24H2 26100.1742
Podman version 5.4.0

Installed via git clone https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat.git -> cd LibreChat -> copy .env.example .env -> podman-compose up -d

All the containers stop after a few seconds: https://imgur.com/a/hK0wzL0

With podman compose up -d I get the errors:

time="2025-03-09T15:03:35-03:00" level=warning msg="The "UID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:03:35-03:00" level=warning msg="The "GID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:03:35-03:00" level=warning msg="The "UID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:03:35-03:00" level=warning msg="The "GID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:03:35-03:00" level=warning msg="The "UID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:03:35-03:00" level=warning msg="The "GID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
[+] Running 58/58
✔ meilisearch Pulled 44.7s
✔ vectordb Pulled 27.1s
✔ api Pulled 85.9s
✔ mongodb Pulled 86.0s
✔ rag_api Pulled 86.0s
[+] Running 2/5
✔ Network librechat_default Created 0.1s
✔ Volume "librechat_pgdata2" Created 0.1s

• Container chat-mongodb Creating 0.1s
• Container chat-meilisearch Creating 0.1s
• Container vectordb Creating 0.1s
  Error response from daemon: container create: statfs /mnt/c/Users/Sarah/Desktop/IA/LibreChat/meili_data_v1.12: no such file or directory
  Error: executing C:\Users\Sarah\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\docker-compose.exe up -d: exit status 1

With podman compose up --build:

time="2025-03-09T15:07:31-03:00" level=warning msg="The "UID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:07:31-03:00" level=warning msg="The "GID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:07:31-03:00" level=warning msg="The "UID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:07:31-03:00" level=warning msg="The "GID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:07:31-03:00" level=warning msg="The "UID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
time="2025-03-09T15:07:31-03:00" level=warning msg="The "GID" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string."
[+] Running 1/4

• Container chat-mongodb Creating 0.1s
• Container chat-meilisearch Creating 0.1s
  ✔ Container vectordb Running 0.0s
• Container rag_api Creating 0.1s
  Error response from daemon: container create: statfs /mnt/c/Users/Sarah/Desktop/IA/LibreChat/data-node: no such file or directory
  Error: executing C:\Users\Sarah\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\docker-compose.exe up --build: exit status 1

Version Information

Latest to this day (09/03/25, dd/mm/yy)

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Additional logs

[danny-avila]

Have you read this user guide on installing podman?

https://www.librechat.ai/blog/2023-08-18_podman

[S4r4h-O]

I, didn't know about that, thank you. Still couldn't make it work but because I'm too tired, so this time I'll just use docker.

[claritystorm]

1. Manually create the volume directories shown in docker-compose.yml: data-node, meili_data_v1.12, images, uploads and logs. create volume path if not exists containers/podman#6234
2. Uncomment UID=1000 and GID=1000 in .env. [Question]: Docker MongoDB container "Operation not permitted" error on WSL 2 Windows 11 #2053 (reply in thread)
3. Run docker compose up -d and visit http://localhost:3080/. https://www.librechat.ai/docs/local/docker