I went to upgrade Lemmy from 18.4 to 18.5 but in the process it failed with an incorrect Postgres password error. I’m trying to create a new docker container and mount the postgres volume in order to reset the “lemmy” user password but can’t figure out how to get it running without knowing the password.

Could anyone point me in the right direction, please?

  • @MarsAgainstVenusOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I couldn’t get my container started with postgress running but I had an idea:

    I started the upgrade process with Lemmy-Easy-Deploy,

    canceled out of it before it removed the containers,

    ran sudo docker exec -i lemmy-easy-deploy-postgres-1 psql -U lemmy -c "alter user lemmy with password 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'"

    with the password set in my env file,

    then restarted the upgrade process. It’s running again.