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Upgrading to postgresql-17 is awkward because of pgvecto.rs if you have been using 0.2.0 as provided by AUR package pgvecto.rs-immich. If you have been using 0.3.0 as provided by AUR package pgvecto.rs-immich-bin then these extra steps are likely not required and I suggest the wiki instructions for upgrades for major version increments of postgresql are followed.

If you would like to stick at postgresql-16 please add the following to pacman.conf:

IgnorePkgs = postgresql postgresql-libs

Following the manual dump and reload in the wiki does appear to work, with a few extra steps to consider the pgvecto.rs upgrade.

Starting point is postgresql-old-upgrade installed with pgvector.rs-0.2.0. Symlink the installation outputs of pgvecto.rs into the directories used by the parallel installation of postgresql-old-upgrade.

ln -s /usr/share/postgresql/extension/vectors.control /opt/pgsql-16/share/extension/vectors.control
ln -s /usr/share/postgresql/extension/vectors--0.2.0.sql /opt/pgsql-16/share/extension/vectors--0.2.0.sql
ln -s /usr/lib/postgresql/vectors.so /opt/pgsql-16/lib/vectors.so

Then perform the database start (/opt/psql-16/bin/pg_ctl .. start), "dump" (pg_dumpall...) and database stop (/opt/psql-16/bin/pg_ctl .. start) steps in the wiki.

Upgrade to postgresql-17 and pgvecto.rs-0.3.0 (provided by pgvector.rs-immich-bin). Clear out /var/lib/postgresql/data then initialise the database (initdb...) as per the wiki.

Start the service using systemctl start postgresql and install the pgvecto.rs using the following command:

psql -c 'ALTER SYSTEM SET shared_preload_libraries = "vectors.so"'

Finally restart the postgresql service and perform the reload (psql...) steps in the wiki.

EDITED: Various clarifications

From v1.111.0, this package does not build with nodejs < v20.

this package no longer contains the service immich-machine-learning, due to growing difficulties with the arch python packages. Luckily immich-machine-learning can be now (as of immich 1.62) accessed via network, allowing it (and typesense) to be installed via docker and utilized via network.

Hi, I tried to get immich running in an LXC container under Proxmox, the installation with all dependencies was no problem so far, on the one hand two directories were missing, which I created later, but the services still don't start.

This is what I see at journal

Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich server.
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich (node)[115275]: immich-server.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/immich/upload: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich (node)[115275]: immich-server.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning node: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich server.

After create missing Directory

Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:45 arch-immich sudo[115407]:  dp20eic : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/dp20eic ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl status immich-server.service
Jun 07 18:33:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:33:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:33:46 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Jun 07 18:33:46 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:46 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:47 arch-immich sudo[115433]:  dp20eic : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/dp20eic ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl status immich-server.service
Jun 07 18:33:48 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:33:48 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'

Same with immich-microservice.service

Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich (node)[116212]: immich-microservices.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/immich/app/server/.reverse-geocoding-dump: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich (node)[116212]: immich-microservices.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning node: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.

After create directory

Jun 07 18:38:18 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:20 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:38:20 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:38:21 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 07 18:38:21 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:21 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich microservices.

Redis and postgresql are up and running, immich-web.service started but without running server :(

What is the meaning of status=4/ILL?

With kind regards Bernd

P.S.: the same with immich V1.60.0

there currently is not typesense package for archlinux. if you want to run typesense in a container you can use immich with typesense until there is a package available.

pkgrel should be set to 1.