# Gladys on Ubuntu server mini-PC: first steps and debugging **URL:** \ **Category:** Configuration\ **Created:** [July 27, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020 "2024-07-27T18:21:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dmar](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dmar](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/dmar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/1 "2024-07-27T18:21:16Z")
Hello everyone, I’m opening a thread (another one…) about my Gladys installation on a mini PC. I want to build a “pilot” setup in an outbuilding of a large house, before possibly extending it to the whole house (alarm, lighting…). Not very familiar with Linux systems and coding, I’m giving it a go! 😃 I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre M700 mini PC on Leboncoin (4GB RAM, some i5, 250GB SSD) and a Sonoff Zigbee dongle. Very energy-efficient and not heating up, it will be installed in a closet. ![20240727_184127](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/d/9/d93f1ac319eab4048cb8188e586e548bdc58588e.jpeg) For installing Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS, I based myself on this excellent video [https://youtu.be/zs2zdVPwZ7E?si=Dk7-02h-jmhxb88k](https://youtu.be/zs2zdVPwZ7E?si=Dk7-02h-jmhxb88k). The image is written to a small USB stick using [Rufus](https://rufus.ie/fr/). **The installation must be done without plugging in the Sonoff dongle!** After reboot, I lock the IP on my Livebox’s control panel and connect to my server from my Windows computer using Powershell: `ssd user@gladys`. Ubuntu by default suggests updating preinstalled packages: `apt list --upgradable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade`. Then I start following @pierre-gilles’s excellent tutorial on the site and YouTube. `curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh` Setting up non-root access for my user: `sudo apt-get install -y uidmap` `sudo apt-get install docker-ce-rootless-extras` `dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install` `sudo loginctl enable-linger user` `sudo systemctl enable docker.service` `sudo systemctl enable containerd.service` Then continuing the tutorial with the two big installation commands for the Gladys & WatchTower containers. Then… nothing… I try to access Gladys at its IP in my browser: nothing! What could be some ways to get it working? Thanks in advance for your help, I hope the beginning of my approach can help beginners! dmar 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cicoub13](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/cicoub13/32/4482_2.png) [@cicoub13](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/cicoub13)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/2 "2024-07-27T20:57:45Z")
Good evening, Did the commands to install Gladys return an error for you? What does the command `docker ps -a` return (lists the created containers)? What does the command `docker logs gladys` return (logs from the gladys container)? ---
**Author:** ![dmar](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dmar](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/dmar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/3 "2024-07-30T06:45:11Z")
Hello cicoub13, thanks for your message. To my knowledge, there was no error during the installation. Here is the output of the commands: `docker ps -a` > CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES > 4d810c80d507 gladysassistant/gladys « docker-entrypoint.s… » 2 days ago Exited (255) 2 days ago 80/tcp jovial\_agnesi > 46f395860381 hello-world « /hello » 2 days ago Exited (0) 2 days ago determined\_shannon > 6ba731e5e6c4 containrrr/watchtower « /watchtower --clean… » 2 days ago Up Less than a second (health: starting) 8080/tcp watchtower > e6df1476485e hello-world « /hello » 2 days ago Exited (0) 2 days ago peaceful\_keldysh > 202d1f85d4a6 gladysassistant/gladys:v4 « docker-entrypoint.s… » 2 days ago Created gladys So I deduce that there are two images in Docker: gladysassistant/gladys and gladysassistant/gladys:v4? Watchtower is there as well. However the command `docker logs gladys` outputs nothing… ![console](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/4/e/4e0aaf9e02ef5b989036a786a059f6a1b824d9c9.png) It looks like Gladys is not responding? ---
**Author:** ![cicoub13](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/cicoub13/32/4482_2.png) [@cicoub13](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/cicoub13)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/4 "2024-07-30T07:22:55Z")
Yes, there is indeed a version of Gladys that needs to be removed `docker rm jovial_agnesi` Very strange that there are no logs. Can you restart the container and rerun the logs command? `docker restart gladys` `docker logs gladys` ---
**Author:** ![dmar](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dmar](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/dmar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 9:10am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/5 "2024-07-30T09:10:00Z")
Removing the other Gladys version worked. I ran `docker ps -a` to check and it no longer appears. The restart command doesn’t work: > Error response from daemon: Cannot restart container gladys: error while creating mount source path ‹ /var/lib/gladysassistant ›: mkdir /var/lib/gladysassistant: permission denied I don’t have the rights…? I thought I had taken the necessary steps to configure my docker daemon profile. As a result the logs command still doesn’t work. I tried running the command as root (I’d rather avoid that access, I’m not proficient enough to venture into anything that could break everything). `sudo docker restart gladys` > Error response from daemon: No such container: gladys ---
**Author:** ![cicoub13](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/cicoub13/32/4482_2.png) [@cicoub13](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/cicoub13)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 9:53am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/6 "2024-07-30T09:53:20Z")
You do have the rights to run `docker` commands 👍 I think that creating the gladys container didn’t work because mounting the volume is impossible (lack of permissions). Can you make sure that the folder `/var/lib/gladysassistant` belongs to you (or that you have permissions on it)? (Since you started the container from your user, root doesn’t know it, that’s normal) ---
**Author:** ![dmar](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dmar](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/dmar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 10:25am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/7 "2024-07-30T10:25:02Z")
If I managed to navigate correctly to the file hierarchy, there is no gladysassistant directory in `/var/lib` > dmar@gladys:/var/lib$ pwd > /var/lib > dmar@gladys:/var/lib$ ls > app-info command-not-found dpkg landscape os-prober private snapd ubuntu-advantage unattended-upgrades vim > apport containerd fwupd libuuid PackageKit python sudo ubuntu-drivers-common update-manager xml-core > apt dbus git logrotate pam sgml-base swcatalog ubuntu-release-upgrader update-notifier > boltd dhcpcd grub man-db plymouth shells.state systemd ucf upower > cloud docker ieee-data misc polkit-1 shim-signed tpm udisks2 usb\_modeswitch (Moving around the file hierarchy for dummies [https://youtu.be/jgcXclSXnVo?si=Jybom0pq31P\_INBd](https://youtu.be/jgcXclSXnVo?si=Jybom0pq31P_INBd)). Is reinstalling enough to get everything back to normal? (Like reinstalling a .exe over a buggy program on Windows.) ---
**Author:** ![cicoub13](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/cicoub13/32/4482_2.png) [@cicoub13](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/cicoub13)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/8 "2024-07-30T13:25:11Z")
I don’t think the tutorial is intended to run Docker in user mode (and not as root). The following two commands let you create the directory and change its owner (to yourself). `sudo mkdir /var/lib/gladysassistant` `sudo chown dmar:dmar /var/lib/gladysassistant/` Once the directory has been created, you can restart Gladys `docker restart gladys` ---
**Author:** ![pierre-gilles](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/pierre-gilles/32/5886_2.png) [@pierre-gilles](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/pierre-gilles)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/9 "2024-08-05T10:03:50Z")
@dmar did you manage to set up Gladys in the end ? Indeed, the tutorial is designed to run Gladys as root. If you don’t run the container as root, there are several things you’ll have to handle : - Ensure the container keeps running if you log out of the user session - Allow the non-root user to run a program on port 80 - To check, but not sure that everything like USB ports / Bluetooth scanning / network scanning will work correctly (I haven’t tested it, I admit) ---
**Author:** ![Tlse-vins](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/tlse-vins/32/6054_2.png) [@Tlse-vins](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/Tlse-vins)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 9:18am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/10 "2024-08-19T09:18:52Z")
Hi, Do you want me to add information to the tutorial I wrote on the forum for [installing Gladys on a mini PC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/installer-gladys-sur-un-mini-pc/7791)? ---
**Author:** ![pierre-gilles](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/pierre-gilles/32/5886_2.png) [@pierre-gilles](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/pierre-gilles)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/11 "2024-08-19T12:51:21Z")
My pleasure 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tlse-vins](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/tlse-vins/32/6054_2.png) [@Tlse-vins](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/Tlse-vins)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/12 "2024-08-20T07:55:22Z")
What do you want me to add, and at which step? ---
**Author:** ![pierre-gilles](https://gladys-assistant-community.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.gladysassistant.com/pierre-gilles/32/5886_2.png) [@pierre-gilles](https://community.gladysassistant.com/u/pierre-gilles)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 7:01am UTC](https://community.gladysassistant.com/t/gladys-sur-serveur-ubuntu-mini-pc-premiers-pas-et-debogages/9020/13 "2024-08-23T07:01:29Z")
Ah I don’t know I thought you had something in mind