Data Source Sync Status stuck in 'queued' - Netbox Docker

[justinSilber]

I'm working on getting Netbox Docker implemented and am running in to an issue where after disabling sync on my data sources they are stuck in the 'queued' state. To un-stick the 'queued' status I tried manually changing the status in nbshell as per this thread but it was not effective.

It appears that the netbox-rq service is having problems:

systemctl status netbox-rq
● netbox-rq.service - NetBox Request Queue Worker
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/netbox-rq.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2025-12-16 17:26:48 UTC; 17s ago
       Docs: https://docs.netbox.dev/
    Process: 3131112 ExecStart=/opt/netbox/venv/bin/python3 /opt/netbox/netbox/manage.py rqworker high default low (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   Main PID: 3131112 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
        CPU: 10ms

Running sudo journalctl -eu netbox-rq gives me not a whole ton of detail:

Dec 15 23:51:33 dockerhostname systemd[1]: netbox-rq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 15 23:52:04 dockerhostname systemd[1]: netbox-rq.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 128.
Dec 15 23:52:04 dockerhostname systemd[1]: Started netbox-rq.service - NetBox Request Queue Worker.
Dec 15 23:52:04 dockerhostname systemd[1]: netbox-rq.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Dec 15 23:52:04 dockerhostname systemd[1]: netbox-rq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 15 23:52:34 dockerhostname systemd[1]: netbox-rq.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 129.
Dec 15 23:52:34 dockerhostname systemd[1]: Started netbox-rq.service - NetBox Request Queue Worker.
Dec 15 23:52:34 dockerhostname systemd[1]: netbox-rq.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC

Tried updating manually restarting the service, updating Netbox, but no luck. Next step will be testing with rebuilding from scratch. I don't think it's the cause but I am differing from the standard Netbox Docker setup since I've merged those steps in to larger docker-compose.yml since I'm running other services off that host. Having no other issues than this one. Any ideas where to look?

Versions:
Netbox: NetBox Community v4.3.7-Docker-3.3.0
Host: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Docker: Docker version 29.1.2, build 890dcca

[justinSilber]

Looks like netbox-rq was a red herring and it's a known bug that someone's proposed a fix for