not to be too blunt, and I swear I searched, but WTF does softlinks do?  I am running without it right now because that is default.  Why would I turn it on? or why would I not want to turn it on?

 

when your Library is located  on a hidden folder, PMS can run into a memory Problem (with large Libraries) and crash.

if you use soft links you can avoid that (or slow it down).

 

@kingfetty

can you post the output of:

egrep -i plex /var/log/syslog

Just a little update

 

TV/The Simpsons/Season 1

TV/The Simpsons/Season 2

 

Both of these existed, I setup plex and got it to scan them, both showed up in the library

 

TV/The Simpsons/Season 3

 

Added this one and coppied the files over, Plex will not detect them

 

Have tried:

 

Force rescan

deep rescan

adding the directory specifically to the section

 

nothing so far can get it to detect new files.

 

The media scanner log shows nothing since the initial scan

@kingfetty

can you post the output of:

egrep -i plex /var/log/syslog

 

root@Tower:~# egrep -i plex /var/log/syslog
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger: installing plugin: Plex-media-server-noarch-0.9.5.
2-ds
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /boot/config/plugins/plex/PlexMediaServer-0.
9.5.2-7a18da4-slackware131-i386.tar.bz2: already exists
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /boot/config/plugins/plex/pms_48px.png: alre
ady exists
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /boot/config/plugins/plex/plex_settings.cfg:
already exists
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /etc/rc.d/rc.plex: successfully wrote INLINE
file contents
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/plex/plex.page: su
ccessfully wrote INLINE file contents
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/plex/pms_48px.png:
successfully copied LOCAL file
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/plex/plex.php: suc
cessfully wrote INLINE file contents
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/plex/event/disks_m
ounted: successfully wrote INLINE file contents
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/plex/event/unmount
ing_disks: successfully wrote INLINE file contents
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower logger:  file /tmp/plex-install: successfully wrote INLINE
file contents
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower plex-install: Nothing found install Plex Media Server now!
(v0.9.5.2-7a18da4)
Dec  6 15:15:34 Tower plex-install: Install PlexMediaServer v0.9.5.2-7a18da4 to
/usr/local/plex
Dec  6 15:15:47 Tower logger:   /bin/bash /tmp/plex-install ... success
Dec  6 15:15:47 Tower logger:  file /var/log/plugins/plex: successfully wrote IN
LINE file contents
Dec  6 15:15:59 Tower plex-rc.plex: starting PMS
Dec  6 15:15:59 Tower plex-rc.plex: start PMS with Library variable
Dec  6 15:15:59 Tower su[14749]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root
Dec  6 15:15:59 Tower su[14749]: +  root:unraid-plex
Dec  6 15:16:01 Tower plex-rc.plex: Plex Media Server IS running
root@Tower:~#

and

ls -al TV/The Simpsons

and 

ls -al TV/The Simpsons/season3/

and

ls -al TV/The Simpsons

and 

ls -al TV/The Simpsons/season3/

 

 

root@Tower:~# ls -al /mnt/user/TV/The\ Simpsons/
total 2
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users   96 2011-12-06 13:21 ./
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users   80 2011-12-06 09:35 ../
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users  992 2011-12-05 04:06 Season\ 1/
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users 1104 2011-12-06 13:20 Season\ 2/
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users  336 2011-12-06 15:01 Season\ 3/
root@Tower:~# ls -al /mnt/user/TV/The\ Simpsons/Season\ 3/
total 1877102
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users       336 2011-12-06 15:01 ./
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users        96 2011-12-06 13:21 ../
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody users 319853694 2011-12-06 13:35 The\ Simpsons\ -\ s03.e01.m
kv
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody users 318118035 2011-12-06 13:43 The\ Simpsons\ -\ s03.e02.m
kv
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody users 319565877 2011-12-06 13:52 The\ Simpsons\ -\ s03.e03.m
kv
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody users 320815192 2011-12-06 14:02 The\ Simpsons\ -\ s03.e04.m
kv
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody users 321741784 2011-12-06 14:10 The\ Simpsons\ -\ s03.e05.m
kv
-rw-rw---- 1 nobody users 320167453 2011-12-06 14:18 The\ Simpsons\ -\ s03.e06.m
kv
root@Tower:~#

permissions are looking good.

but can you rename this "s03.e01" to "S03E01".

and rescan your library again.

permissions are looking good.

but can you rename this "s03.e01" to "S03E01".

and rescan your library again.

 

No change

 

I'm running a tail on the media scanner log and nothing there either

the tail stuck the most of the time.

do a "tail -f" again.

the tail stuck the most of the time.

do a "tail -f" again.

 

Last entry on the log is from an hour ago...

 

I wonder if it has something to do with the cache drive... I've just invoked the mover to move the files off the cache to see if it makes a difference.4

not to be too blunt, and I swear I searched, but WTF does softlinks do?  I am running without it right now because that is default.  Why would I turn it on? or why would I not want to turn it on?

 

when your Library is located  on a hidden folder, PMS can run into a memory Problem (with large Libraries) and crash.

if you use soft links you can avoid that (or slow it down).

 

 

Hidden folder ... why would I have a hidden folder?  Or do you mean a hidden share?

even if you have no media changes, you should see something in the log

even if you have no media changes, you should see something in the log

 

here's the last entry... current time is 15:42est

 

Dec 06, 2011 14:57:55 [0xb37ffb70] DEBUG - HTTP request to: http://127.0.0.1:32400/:/metadata/notify/updateProgress?metadataItemID=11

@jumperalex

before 5beta... you have to use hidden folders (dot folder e.g. ".plex") to prevent the mover to move the folder to your data disks.

 

 

hmmm, weird.

maybe the scanner is hanging. I don't know.

 

try it with a restart of plex

 

/etc/rc.d/rc.plex restart 

hmmm, weird.

maybe the scanner is hanging. I don't know.

 

try it with a restart of plex

 

/etc/rc.d/rc.plex restart 

 

The new files showed up in the library shortly after the mover finished moving the files off the cached drive and onto the disks.  Not sure why this would matter but it did.

 

did you "give" plex the user shares or your disks?

 

did you "give" plex the user shares or your disks?

 

 

The User share

then PMS should recognize the media on the cache too, it works at least for me.

then PMS should recognize the media on the cache too, it works at least for me.

 

yeah, I agree. what unRAID version are you running, perhaps is a bug.  I'm running b14

me too

Maybe I missed this, but exactly what paths are you adding within PMS for your media?  I suspect you may be listing the disk shares instead of the user shares (which wouldn't pick up anything on your cache drive)?

 

Edit: yep, I missed it.  Only a few posts above.  Disregard.

Maybe I missed this, but exactly what paths are you adding within PMS for your media?  I suspect you may be listing the disk shares instead of the user shares (which wouldn't pick up anything on your cache drive)?

 

/mnt/user/TV

/mnt/user/Movies

/mnt/user/Pictures

/mnt/user/Videos

/mnt/user/Music

Well I'm at a loss for how to troubleshoot.  Sounds like everything is set up as it should be.

 

If you end up adding something to your shares again, would you please check to see if it appropriately shows up (or doesn't) in the 3 following areas?

 

For instance, if you add a new TV show, check to make sure it shows up under

 

/mnt/cache/TV

/mnt/user/TV

 

And doesn't show up under whatever disk share(s) is (are) associated with the TV share, like...

 

/mnt/disk2/TV

 

If this all comes out as it should, shares are working properly and PMS should be picking up newly added media and I have no clue what's going on.

@jumperalex

before 5beta... you have to use hidden folders (dot folder e.g. ".plex") to prevent the mover to move the folder to your data disks.

 

 

 

hmmm ok but I DO have a hidden folder on my cache drive.  it was put there by the default plugin. ".data" to be exact.