So, right out the gate, I realize Watchtower has been abandoned. I get that. Still, it's a great app. 95% of the time, it works every time.
The issue I have is as follows:
INFO[93549] Found new searxng/searxng:latest image (5613a99caf5d)
INFO[93565] Found new prom/prometheus:latest image (b5239da13ab0)
INFO[93584] Found new ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep:latest image (c5fcb1a653c6)
INFO[93592] Stopping /CADVISOR-PROMETHEUS (342680d2a684) with SIGTERM
INFO[93593] Creating /CADVISOR-PROMETHEUS
INFO[93594] Stopping /SEARXNG (0842827f17a9) with SIGTERM
INFO[93597] Creating /SEARXNG
ERRO[93597] Error response from daemon: the container-wide MAC address must match the endpoint-specific MAC address for the main network, or be left empty
INFO[93597] Removing image 9e24e9a9806c
INFO[93597] Session done Failed=1 Scanned=38 Updated=2 notify=no
It doesn't do this everytime, and it's not one particular container. It seems random. For the example of SearxNG, I have not specified a MAC address.
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docker run -d \
--name searxng \
-p 8989:8080 \
-v /srv/docker/searxng/data:/etc/searxng \
-e SEARXNG_BASE_URL="https://" \
-e SEARXNG_INSTANCE_NAME="SearxNG" \
-e SEARXNG_CONTACT_INFO="mail.com" \
-e SEARXNG_LANGUAGE="en-US" \
-e SEARXNG_AUTOCOMPLETE="duckduckgo" \
-e SEARXNG_THEME="simple" \
-e SEARXNG_OUTGOING_METHOD="default" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_METRICS="true" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_CAPTCHA="false" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_INFINITE_SCROLL="true" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_PIWIK_ANALYTICS="false" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_ADVANCED_SEARCH="true" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_PRIVATE_RESULTS="true" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_TORIFICATION="false" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_HTTPS_EVERYWHERE="true" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_PROXY="false" \
-e SEARXNG_ENABLE_PLUGINS="true" \
searxng/searxng
In fact, I've never specified a specific MAC for any of my containers, and just let Docker do what it do. I'm just wondering if anyone has run up on this issue, and what did you do to remediate it, besides use another updater app? I like Watchtower, but only 95% of the time. LOL
It's not a huge issue spinning the container back up. Takes less than 30 sec. However, that's not how it's supposed to work, so I seek input.
ETA: Just adding this for anyone who is testing the Watchtower fork or are thinking about it. Day 2, and everything is running just fine. I have not had any of the issues that I had with OG Watchtower:
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time="2025-07-01T17:28:21Z" level=info msg="Found new netdata/netdata:edge image (7cbd870f51b0)"
time="2025-07-01T17:28:42Z" level=info msg="Found new influxdb:2 image (b4355848b856)"
time="2025-07-01T17:28:54Z" level=info msg="Found new ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep:latest image (c5fcb1a653c6)"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:03Z" level=info msg="Found new redis:latest image (ed3a2af6d0d4)"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:04Z" level=info msg="Stopping /CADVISOR-REDIS (84a28cf8904d) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:06Z" level=info msg="Stopping /ROOT-INFLUXDB2-1 (a14e51a1b7db) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:07Z" level=info msg="Stopping /NETDATA (bde1241c0073) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:09Z" level=info msg="Creating /NETDATA"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:09Z" level=info msg="Creating /ROOT-INFLUXDB2-1"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:10Z" level=info msg="Creating /CADVISOR-REDIS"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:10Z" level=info msg="Session done" Failed=0 Scanned=38 Updated=4 notify=no
time="2025-07-02T17:28:07Z" level=info msg="Found new openlistteam/openlist:latest image (0926eda3de9a)"
time="2025-07-02T17:28:23Z" level=info msg="Found new portainer/portainer-ce:latest image (71de3839351a)"
time="2025-07-02T17:28:32Z" level=info msg="Found new ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep:latest image (c5fcb1a653c6)"
time="2025-07-02T17:28:57Z" level=info msg="Found new bigbeartechworld/big-bear-btop:latest image (737e9af25da3)"
time="2025-07-02T17:29:01Z" level=info msg="Stopping /BTOP-PLUS-PLUS (751299b8b022) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-02T17:29:04Z" level=info msg="Stopping /PORTAINER (aa754cb14780) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-02T17:29:05Z" level=info msg="Stopping /OPENLIST (2ca56a872944) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-02T17:29:06Z" level=info msg="Creating /OPENLIST"
time="2025-07-02T17:29:06Z" level=info msg="Creating /PORTAINER"
time="2025-07-02T17:29:07Z" level=info msg="Creating /BTOP-PLUS-PLUS"
time="2025-07-02T17:29:08Z" level=info msg="Session done" Failed=0 Scanned=38 Updated=4 notify=no
Here is a fork of watchtower that is meant to keep things up to date that might work for you. I haven't tried it yet but am setting it up now.
Judging from the changelog it's almost exclusively updated dependencies and no real development to speak of.
Ah ok got it. For me personally that's about really all I want I guess. Watchtower has been so rock solid for me for so long that I just want to make sure it's at least kept up to date. Thanks!