Setting up a galaxy instance - admin issues

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Hello,

I’ve recently been toying around with the idea of trying to setup my own galaxy instance. I have a pretty powerful PC and thought it may help to free up space on the galaxy servers… But I’m having a few issues with the installation. So far, I’ve managed to get galaxy up and running, and read that I need to alter the config files to make myself an admin before I can start downloading tools from the toolshed.

For install, I’m using ubuntu (wsl1). I’ve created a config file - (with the help of deekseek) in the config directory - galaxy.yml with the following contents -

---
gravity:
  galaxy_root: /home/<redacted>/galaxy
  galaxy_config_file: /home/<redacted>/galaxy/config/galaxy.yml
  log_dir: /home/<redacted>/galaxy/log
  bind: localhost:8080

galaxy:
  database_connection: sqlite:////home/<redacted>/galaxy/database/community.sqlite?isolation_level=IMMEDIATE
  file_path: /home/<redacted>/galaxy/database/files
  admin_users: <redacted>@gmail.com

However, with this new file present, whenever I try to run galaxy I get the following error message -

2025-03-14 15:06:18,710 WARN exited: gunicorn (exit status 1; not expected)
2025-03-14 15:06:19,712 INFO gave up: gunicorn entered FATAL state, too many start retries too quickly

Any advice to rectify this would be greatly appreciated. I’m pretty new to all of this.

Thanks!

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Hi @FireProofJames

That error is related to how many processes Galaxy is starting up all at once. The advice in the post will help you, too.

However – if this is your first time administrating Galaxy, you might find the Docker Galaxy version a bit easier to get running since a lot of the advanced configuration is already included.

But this is your choice! Below are the resources we have for both.

Hope this helps! :slight_smile: