Miniflux app setup fails with error

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Problem Description
The setup workflow for miniflux installation fails with an error. The miniflux admin user is not created.

Salsa Issue

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install miniflux from the Apps page
  2. Go to miniflux app management page
  3. Click the create admin user button
  4. enter a username and password for miniflux user
  5. click submit

Expected Results
I expect the miniflux application to be configured and ready for first use.

Actual results
Error message:

An error occurred while creating the user: End Of File (EOF). Exception style platform. <pexpect.pty_spawn.spawn object at 0x7fe7be7a4ad0> command: /usr/bin/miniflux args: [‘/usr/bin/miniflux’, ‘-c’, ‘/etc/miniflux/miniflux.conf’, ‘–create-admin’] buffer (last 100 chars): b’’ before (last 100 chars): b’pq: password authentication failed for user “miniflux”\r\n’ after: <class ‘pexpect.exceptions.EOF’> match: None match_index: None exitstatus: None flag_eof: True pid: 22327 child_fd: 5 closed: False timeout: 30 delimiter: <class ‘pexpect.exceptions.EOF’> logfile: None logfile_read: None logfile_send: None maxread: 2000 ignorecase: False searchwindowsize: None delaybeforesend: 0.05 delayafterclose: 0.1 delayafterterminate: 0.1 searcher: searcher_re: 0: re.compile(b’Enter Username: ').

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Information

  • You are running Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) and FreedomBox version 25.9.3. FreedomBox is up to date.
  • Hardware: Intel Atom
  • How did you install FreedomBox?: FreedomBox installed over Debian Jessie and upgraded since
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Same problem here with similar install of FreedomBox on a debian trixie server.

In cockpit under services is was listed as failed to start. Pressing the start button produced this:

Service logs

August 24, 2025

11:11 PM

Failed to start miniflux.service - Miniflux.

systemd

11:11 PM

miniflux.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

systemd

11:11 PM

miniflux.service: Start request repeated too quickly.

systemd

11:11 PM

miniflux.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.

systemd

11:11 PM

Failed to start miniflux.service - Miniflux.

systemd

11:11 PM

miniflux.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

systemd

11:11 PM

miniflux.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

systemd

11:11 PM

pq: password authentication failed for user “miniflux”

miniflux

11:11 PM

Starting miniflux.service - Miniflux…

systemd

11:11 PM

miniflux.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.

systemd