Paperless: inotify does not work in the Docker container (see post #3)

[LukasBombach]

I have closely followed the docker route on the Installation manual, I did not change any configurations and I successfully configured and started the docker images for paperless. I can open paperless on http://localhost:8000/admin/

I am experiencing difficulties with the consumer though. It seems every time I start or restart both containers, the consumer will actually process the PDFs inside the consume directory of the project, but it will do this only _once_ after I start / restart. If I add files later, they just won't get consumed.

I checked the container's statuses with

➜  paperless git:(master) ✗ docker container ls
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                 COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                    PORTS                    NAMES
a4cfba2626d8        paperless_consumer    "/sbin/docker-entryp…"   43 minutes ago      Up 14 minutes                                      paperless_consumer_1
8cccb76c57cf        paperless_webserver   "/sbin/docker-entryp…"   44 minutes ago      Up 14 minutes (healthy)   0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp   paperless_webserver_1

And they seem to be up and running, but I need to restart the containers for the consumer to do something. I checked the logs at http://localhost:8000/api/logs/, but there is no output except for the files that have been consumed at startup.

Is this a bug or do I need to configure something that is not in the setup docs to make the consumer constantly check the consume directory?

The question is: _Should_ this work when you complete and stick to the docker route on the Installation manual

[LukasBombach]

I could just confirm that my local folder is properly mounted using

$ docker exec paperless_consumer_1 ls /consume
(930644)_28.02.2019.pdf
(930644)_31.07.2018.pdf

it just does not process them.

Then I added more files and ran

$ docker exec paperless_consumer_1 /usr/src/paperless/src/manage.py document_consumer

I can see in my console that the python script processes the files currently in the directory. When I add more files, it does not recognize a change or scan the directory after a timeout.

[LukasBombach]

Ok, so it does work with --no-inotify

$ docker exec paperless_consumer_1 /usr/src/paperless/src/manage.py document_consumer --no-inotify

so it seems that this is the problem. I am using docker on macOS, inotify seems to be recognized as available while it does not really work

[LukasBombach]

Ok, here is how you work around that bug:

Edit docker-compose.yml, change line 52 from

    command: ["document_consumer"]

to

    command: ["document_consumer", "--no-inotify"]

Run

docker-compose up -d

[stgarf]

Hi @LukasBombach! You're actually hitting #520 and the docs on ReadTheDocs are OutOfDate™.

Here's the latest... and let's see if we can get some traction on that bug.

[LukasBombach]

Thanks man. Btw, in the (new) docs you write that this happens in an NAS env. This happens when you use the docker route.

[stgarf]

@LukasBombach we love PR's :)

[LukasBombach]

Ok, give me some time :)

[maxiride]

Man I spent the whole day on this same issue, it didn't bother me to check previous issues as I thought the docs were OK.

@lucaskolstad any news on the PR to fix this typos\errors?

[danielquinn]

@Maxiride, I think you meant @LukasBombach?

[LukasBombach]

@Maxiride i never created a PR since I paused my paperless project for now

[LukasBombach]

thanks @danielquinn