Jellyfin stuck on starting

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Hello, I am trying to run Jellyfin. I am having the same issue as a post from Mar 2024. That one was solved with a reinstall but that has not worked for me. I have jellyfin installed and connected to the working nextcloud install. I have tried uninstalling jellyfin/nextcloud and reinstalling without luck. I have even tried downgrading both just to see if that would get it working but no such luck. The OS logs show the following:

2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 0: startos::manager::get_running_ip
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 at startos/src/manager/mod.rs:807
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 1: startos::manager::run_main
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 at startos/src/manager/mod.rs:652
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets., kind: Docker, revision: None }
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 2025-10-29T06:54:27.494492Z ERROR startos::manager::manager_container: failed to start service: Docker Error: Manager runtime returned error: Filesystem I/O Error: No such file or directory (os error 2)
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 2025-10-29T06:54:27.494505Z DEBUG startos::manager::manager_container: Error { source:
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 0: Manager runtime returned error: Filesystem I/O Error: No such file or directory (os error 2)
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 Location:
2025-10-29T06:54:27+00:00 startos/src/manager/mod.rs:835

I am not hell bent on using Jellyfin, just wanted to play around with it and see what it could do with the Apple TV. Anyway, thanks for any help anyone can give.

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What’s the actual symptom, or error message you’re seeing wen trying to run Jellyfin? What’s not working?

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After install and config I click start and it just hangs saying “starting…” and never starts. No other error messages or anything.

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If your Jellyfin service is in a constant starting loop, the best course of action will be to run a System Rebuild.

This process won’t delete or change anything, it will just rebuild the containers.

You can find this option under System → Power → System Rebuild

Keep in mind that It may take quite a while to complete. During this time, you will lose all connectivity to your server, so please be patient and let the process finish and then the server will restart on its own.