jim80z

Rara Thank you. Spot on the money! Worked like a charm. Jim

Hi, Did a check for updates under docker and tried to update my Limetech Plex docker and got the following error. Any ideas? I am running unraid 6.2 and plex is at version 1.1.3.2700. ----------8<---------- Pulling image: limetech/plex:latest IMAGE ID [latest]: Pulling from limetech/plex. IMAGE ID [6ffe5d2d6a97]: Already exists. IMAGE ID [f4e00f994fd4]: Already exists. IMAGE ID [e99f3d1fc87b]: Already exists. IMAGE ID [a3ed95caeb02]: Already exists. IMAGE ID [ededd75b6753]: Already exists. IMAGE ID [1ddde157dd31]: Already exists. IMAGE ID [79321844ebba]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 772 B. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [ebe499b4c161]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 119 MB. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. IMAGE ID [cb387480a3c1]: Pulling fs layer. Downloading 100% of 561 B. Verifying Checksum. Download complete. Extracting. Pull complete. TOTAL DATA PULLED: 119 MB Error: layers from manifest don't match image configuration ----------8<---------- Thanks Jim

All, I managed to work this out. For whatever reason the latest version(s) might not play nice with subnets? Even though my unraid server is on the same subnet (I only have one subnet) as my desktop Plex didn't see it that way. The server expected that the web client would be invoked on the local host i.e. on the actual unraid server via a web browser (localhost:32400/web). To over come this you have to: Enable sshd (if you have this working and you can ssh to the unraid server, skip this) - This bit is interesting to me as unraid 6.1.9 has ssh as a part of its base install. However I could not ssh to the unraid server from my workstation ... connection refused. - logging into the unraid server and running "/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start" would give me a bunch of errors re various keyfiles in "/etc/ssh" wouldn't load due to being the wrong format etc - looking at the files in "/etc/ssh" I found that the file names are there but they are empty i.e. blank, no keys - so I run "ssh-keygen -A" to generate the keys in the files and check them to find the keys are now present i.e. the files are not empty anymore - BUT....then when I invoke "/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start" you end up with the same errors i.e. files are empty....so I check the files and indeed find them empty again - what is happening is when you run "/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start" it copies the keyfiles from "/boot/config/ssh" (which are blank) to ""/etc/ssh" - so what you have to do is run "ssh-keygen -A" then copy the newly generated keyfiles in "/etc/ssh" to "/boot/config/ssh". Now it works at boot or when you manually run "/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start" - there are plugins (e.g. https://github.com/docgyver/unraid-v6-plugins) but Im not sure why you would need them since ssh is built into the unraid distribution (just needs a fix @limetech) - sorry for this extra info but thought Id put it here in case anyone gets stuck like I did as the info on how to setup SSH in 6.1.9 native wasn't readily available? or at least I couldn't find it. Setup an SSH tunnel from your machine to the unraid server - Now that you have ssh working, check out the following support do https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200288666-Opening-Plex-Web-App three quarters of the way down i.e. "On a Different Network" section - to make it easy ill repeat here, open a command prompt on your desktop (mine is a mac) and execute "ssh ip.address.of.server -L 8888:localhost:32400" .....where ip.address.of.server is the IP number of your unraid server.......enter your root password of the unraid server when prompted. Your ssh tunnel is now established - then open your browser and punch in "http://localhost:8888/web" - this should now take you to the familiar setup web app for plex. - Once I finished the initial Plex setup, I could access the Plex server from anywhere on my subnet. Not sure why the upgrade failed me and why Plex couldn't see I was on the same subnet but the above is how I got through it. Hope it helps someone. Jim

OK removed everything. Then did a search for anything remotely called plex and removed that.= (including /boot/config/plugins/Plexmediaserver). Reinstalled the plugin. Put my old settings in and flicked yes on enable plex server. Hit Apply. Waited for everything to be installed and online. Clicked on WebUI button. - asks me to login to plex. Use my account (note Im not a paid member of plexpass) and login - Comes up with Plex Pass banner advertising the experience and features.....close that - behind it the main screen has Get your Plex Media Server some words then download PMS or Download PMS for NAS Platforms - Top left hand corner have a "Looking for Servers" with a cycling wait symbol....some words and a "where is my server?" hyperlink. - top right has a "go premium button", settings (which takes you general player settings, cast/players button and user login pulldown - never finds the server. The URL is correct in that it is the local server. Where are the server setup elements? Why does it assume there isn't a server? What have I missed?

Moved config to config_old, deleted install files and reinstalled/started. Same problem. Will go find a backup of the the entire .Apps/plexmediaserver folder and recover it and see if I can get back to where I was. BTW PhAzE thanks for the prompt helpful replies!

Just for completeness I have the following settings Install directory: /mnt/cache/.Apps/Plexmediaserver Config / Library directory: /mnt/cache/.Apps/Plexmediaserver/config Transcode directory: /mnt/cache/.Apps/Plexmediaserver/Transcode No customs external port Branch: Standard Server is run as nobody the rest isn't really relevant I deleted single files in /mnt/cache/.Apps/Plexmediaserver but left config and Resources alone. Restarted Plex and it reinstalled. Same issue exists. I left the config directory because I wasn't sure where the library meta data lived and didn't want to lose any of it. Is the meta data in Resources or Config?

Sorry should have asked in the previous post....Is there a way of having the plugin force a clean reinstall of the latest plex?

The setting is set to standard. It wasn't changed.

Hiya Yesterday the Plex plugin flagged that there was a new version of the server so after making sure there wasn't a new plugin version I allowed it to upgrade the server. The server was upgraded to 1.1.3.2700-6f64a8d. All the settings have remained the same. I am now greeted via webgui with a plexpass login which I can't get passed? My mobile devices get "unauthorized" when i try to select my server? Is anyone else getting this? Any suggestions? Jim

Many thanks for the answer.

Hi Thanks No re V6. I was on V5 and ugraded to V6 a couple of weeks ago. So am already on V6 and wasn't intending on rebuilding from scratch just doing a removal of old disks, reboot, assign new disks, start the array, then restore disks 1-4.

Hi, I will ellaborate. So whats happened is : - My array is 5x1TB (includes a parity drive) and Im going to 5x3TB on V6 - As prep I started pre clearing the 3GB drives, making sure parity on the 5x1TB array was ok and then doing 1 final backup of the 4x1TB Data disks at the disk level i.e. I share via samba not only the file shares e.g. Movies, Music, Photos et al, but also Disk1, Disk2, Disk3 and Disk4 - I found Disk2 in the 5x1TB array was failing so I percleared a spare 1GB drive, rebooted the server minus Disk2, assigned the new Disk2 and hit start array. It started and finished a rebuild of Disk2 and then did not want to mount it. I recleared it and tried again with no luck. - I keep regular backups of Disk1,2,3,4 (I mount the four drive shares on a mac and use Chronosynch to a drive array connected to my mac). So I am not worried about losing any data as I have Disk1,2,3,4 stored in another array - I have another post (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=40735.0) wrt my Disk2 problem but it doesn't look like there are any suggestions on how to bring this back online so I can then start swapping 1TB drives with 3TB drives and let Unraid do the rebuilds - I also noticed that the array without disk2 looks to be missing the disk2 data i.e. the 3 data disks plus parity is not giving me the full array as it was. - So Im almost at the point where I think I will rip all the 1TB disks out, mount the new 3TB disks and form a new empty parity protected array of 5x3TB - Then share out the 4x3TB disks and use chronosynch to recover from the mac back to Disk1,2,3,4 * - I want to leave everything else on Unraid the same i.e. users, shares, etc etc etc ** So questions on the last two items marked with an "*" * If I recover at the disk share level does the parity drive come along for the ride and get built as the data is transferred to data Disks 1,2,3,4 OR do I have to reconstitute the data at the file share level i.e. Movies, Music etc etc i.e. copy from the mac all the moves to movies share , all the music to music share etc ** Can I leave all the Users, Share , etc settings in unraid as I create and start the new empty array of 5x3TB disks? or will unraid freak out as the empty array (i.e. no folders of Movie, Music etc until I move the files back to Disk1,2,3,4) of 5x3TB comes on line Hope that makes it more clear? Thanks Jim

All, Quick question. I have backups of the direct disk shares i.e. not the file shares but Disk1 disk2 etc. I am now looking at a possible server rebuild. So if I replace all the old drives with new. i.e. rebuild the disk array with new drives, then share out the various disks, then copy the backups to the disks, reset permissions etc......will all the data be parity protected? or do I have to transfer the files via the samba shares and not the samba disks. Thanks Jim

Hi Further to this I noticed that items that would be on disk2 (i.e. the one replaced and not mounting) are not available on the share. I would have thought between the other data disks and the parity drive the data would all be there. I would love to do a full backup right now and depending what comes from this forum be ready for a rebuild ground up. Thanks for your help. Jim

Hi All, As I was preparing to replace all the disks in my array with new ones, I had one of the data disks start failing. I removed the disk, percleared a new one, added it to the array and after a few hrs the array rebuilt the disk. Unfortunately I get the error "unmountable disk present. Recent events (may not have anything to do with this) - upgraded to V6 a couple of weeks ago - added an SSD for cache drive (never had one before) - array is made up of 5 x 1TB drives which includes a parity drive. - have added 6 X Hitachi 3TB drives no yet perclear (started on two but aborted them for now) Info attached from Diagnostics. Any ideas? odyssey-diagnostics-20150618-0232.zip