diff --git a/cmd/gotosocial/action/admin/media/prune/common.go b/cmd/gotosocial/action/admin/media/prune/common.go
index 54144504c..f6a782c69 100644
--- a/cmd/gotosocial/action/admin/media/prune/common.go
+++ b/cmd/gotosocial/action/admin/media/prune/common.go
@@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ type prune struct {
 
 func setupPrune(ctx context.Context) (*prune, error) {
 	var state state.State
+
 	state.Caches.Init()
+	state.Caches.Start()
+
 	state.Workers.Start()
 
 	dbService, err := bundb.NewBunDBService(ctx, &state)
@@ -51,8 +54,6 @@ func setupPrune(ctx context.Context) (*prune, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error creating storage backend: %w", err)
 	}
-
-	state.DB = dbService
 	state.Storage = storage
 
 	//nolint:contextcheck
@@ -75,8 +76,8 @@ func (p *prune) shutdown(ctx context.Context) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error closing dbservice: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	p.state.Caches.Stop()
 	p.state.Workers.Stop()
+	p.state.Caches.Stop()
 
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/cmd/gotosocial/action/testrig/testrig.go b/cmd/gotosocial/action/testrig/testrig.go
index b5d34e7c9..13e9a8f5b 100644
--- a/cmd/gotosocial/action/testrig/testrig.go
+++ b/cmd/gotosocial/action/testrig/testrig.go
@@ -56,12 +56,14 @@ var Start action.GTSAction = func(ctx context.Context) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error initializing tracing: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	// Initialize caches
-	state.Caches.Init()
+	// Initialize caches and database
+	state.DB = testrig.NewTestDB(&state)
+
+	// New test db inits caches so we don't need to do
+	// that twice, we can just start the initialized caches.
 	state.Caches.Start()
 	defer state.Caches.Stop()
 
-	state.DB = testrig.NewTestDB(&state)
 	testrig.StandardDBSetup(state.DB, nil)
 
 	if os.Getenv("GTS_STORAGE_BACKEND") == "s3" {