Rebooting on 1.7.1 Removes Custom Services and Docker Permissions

Support and Troubleshooting
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On umbrelOS 1.7.1, I manually recreated custom /etc/systemd/system/*.service files that were previously part of my setup but were removed after updating.

This also affected related customizations such as:

  • Cloudflare Tunnel setup
  • Host-level automation
  • Docker permissions/group membership changes that broke existing docker-based aliases/scripts

For example, commands that previously worked via docker aliases began returning permission denied errors until permissions were manually corrected.

After recreating these items, they work again temporarily. However, after a normal reboot, the custom service files and related changes are no longer present again.

Is this expected behavior in 1.7.1, or a persistence bug?

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1.7.1 is also re-writing /etc/fstab after every reboot

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yes, super annoying

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Yeah, this makes no sense to me at all on why they are doing this in the 1.7x versions. I understand trying to protect the OS but not completely not allowing customization???

At this time, I have no plans to upgrade off 1.5 until this is fix or a workaround becomes available.

And, if anyone comes up with a workaround to remove the “umbrelOS 1.7.2 is now availale to install” … I would sure be interested in that!

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I might be curious but is this happening on any device, included Umbrel Home? Or just on “generic” devices?

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All devices.

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There’s a way to roll back to the previous version? I don’t like this downgrade

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I’m moving to ZimaOS. I’m done

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I was thinking that maybe they’re almost forcing their users to use their hardware and software, with no customisation whatsoever.

It’s a pity they don’t come to this forum anymore :frowning:

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in my case, my little nuc box needs a special ethernet driver built (reaktek r8125) - umbrelos doesn’t properly support it out-of-box - but my previous (simple) steps to build the driver and install it no longer persist after reboot - meaning ethernet disappears.

THIS IS THE KEY:
sudo rugix-ctrl state overlay force-persist true

now i can do my driver build/install process and it survives rebooting.
then add a persistent repair hook (using /home/umbrel/umbrel/custom-hooks/pre-start) that reinstalls if driver disappears after an umbrel os update

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I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the release notes.

Thank you.

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Yes. It’s very frustrating. For those affected by the fstab resets. The steps I took to fix the issue are detailed here: X86, after 1.7.3 update, directories created, mount points, fstab, wiped clean at every reboot