Possible to restart container on missing qbittorrent connection

[JimmyHoenderdaal]

Hi there, My Decluttarr container doesn’t restart when it can't connect to qbittorrent. Every time my server restarts both start at the same time, but Decluttarr gives errors like:

2023-12-12 12:33:48
 [WARNING]: >>> Queue cleaning failed on Radarr. (File: queue_cleaner.py / Line: 227 / Error Message: 'NoneType' object is not iterable / Error Type: )
2023-12-12 12:43:48
 [ERROR]: Error making API request to http://qbittorrent:8080/api/v2/torrents/info: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: http://qbittorrent:8080/api/v2/torrents/info?tag=keep

Is it possible to make Decluttarr restart itself when it can't connect with qbittorrent? Right now I’m doing it manually, which does work. I have my container set as "Restart unless stopped" so I think simply setting the container as failed on these errors should resolve my problem.

You can reproduce this by starting both containers and then restarting the qbittorrent container.

Thanks!

[ManiMatter]

I use restart: always

Does that solve it for you?

[JimmyHoenderdaal]

No, tried different restart policies but it has the same error after running a while. Just looks like whenever qbittorrent loses connection it doesn't retry to connect to it again. Might also be because of docker networks since its linked to eachother. I can try setting the qbittorrent url as http://localhost:8080 instead of the docker container url http://qbittorrent:8080

[ManiMatter]

Not sure I know what's going on. I use "restart: always" and that works perfectly for me.

Do any of these ideas work for you?

• Are the two containers in the same network in docker? I use "bridge" network, and use http://qbittorrent:8080/ for the connection
• I don't use a password, but have enabled these settiongs in qbit: Bypass authentication for clients on localhost Bypass authentication for clients in whitelisted ip subnets: True, with settings 0.0.0.0/0

[ManiMatter]

hi, did above tips help you or are you still having an issue?

[JimmyHoenderdaal]

Hey there, I'm still facing the issues from time to time. My qbittorrent operates in the same network as my gluetun. Since gluetun gets updated regularly and has to be restarted, I disabled its auto-updates. This tweak seems to have fixed things for now. I reckon what happened was that when Gluetun restarted, it caused my qbittorrent container to break, subsequently leading to issues with my decluttar container, which then needed a restart too. I'll keep an eye on whether keeping the updates disabled improves the situation. Thanks for your help! :)

[JimmyHoenderdaal]

Managed to fix it by using network mode: host and localhost urls instead of linking docker container and using the container urls, eg http://localhost:8080 instead of http://qbittorrent:8080. Seems like container linking isn't that reliable