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[WARN] image commit error 1 error occurred, invalid cross-device link #1958
Description
I deployed Remark42 through the Dock.
Docker-compose.yml file:
services:
remark42:
image: ghcr.io/umputun/remark42:latest
container_name: remark42
hostname: remark42
restart: always
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
env_file:
- /etc/remark42/.env
volumes:
- /var/lib/remark42/data/bbolt.db:/srv/var/db/bbolt.db
- /var/lib/remark42/pictures:/srv/var/pictures
- /var/lib/remark42/avatars:/srv/var/avatars
- /var/lib/remark42/backup:/srv/var/backup
- /var/log/remark42:/srv/var/logs
logging:
driver: json-file
options:
max-size: "10m"
max-file: "5"
When I test posting a photo comment, I found an error message in the log:
remark42 | 2025/10/13 04:01:45.073 [WARN] image commit error 1 error occurred:
remark42 | * failed to commit image email_83c59b80baf222e8912c581696e095d681887ead/ d3mbtfspjegs72v9dhk0: failed to commit image email_83c59b80baf222e8912c581696e095d681887ead/d3mbtfspjegs72v9dhk0: rename var/pictures.staging/ email_83c59b80baf222e8912c581696e095d681887ead/90/d3mbtfspjegs72v9dhk0 var/pictures/email_83c59b80baf222e8912c581696e095d681887ead/90/d3mbtfspjegs72v9dhk0: invalid cross-device link
remark42 | 2025/10/13 04:10:54.691 [INFO] remove staging image var/pictures.staging/email_83c59b80baf222e8912c581696e095d681887ead/90/d3mbtfspjegs72v9dhk0, age 14m9.622725285s
error: invalid cross-device link
My picture is lost! How can I solve this problem?
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tigerInLuck commentedon Oct 13, 2025
It's OK:
umputun commentedon Oct 13, 2025
The issue is caused by a filesystem boundary problem with the Docker volume mounting configuration.
Looking at backend/app/store/image/fs_store.go:63, the code uses os.Rename() to move images from staging to permanent storage:
The
os.Rename()system call only works within the same filesystem. When you try to rename/move a file across different filesystems, it fails with the error invalid cross-device link (EXDEV).Why This Happens with Your Docker Setup
In your docker-compose.yml:
When Remark42 tries to commit an image, it attempts to rename from:
These are two different filesystems, so os.Rename() fails.
Quick fix for you - Mount the staging directory as a volume too
moved to discussion, because this is not really a bug report