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qBittorrent stuck at No custom files found, skipping...

What's the issue

Sometimes when running qBittorrent, you get the below

migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
usermod: user abc is currently used by process 1
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GID/UID
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User UID:    0
User GID:    0
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Linuxserver.io version: 5.2.1_v2.0.12-ls459
Build-date: 2026-05-26T04:47:45+00:00
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[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...

The container will then not start, and will sit here forever

Solution

Delete the lockfile under /config/.config/qBittorrent/lockfile