its only 999 if no other system user is created first.

 

 

Then parsing the contents of the result to get the UID would be a good option.

 

Even better: id -u unraid-plex

not good, tried it, had a process with 9994.

 

root@nas:~# ps auxw | grep $(id -u unraid-plex)
root      9994  1.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Mar31 182:34 [unraidd]
999      16272  0.1  1.6 248484 65224 ?        Sl   Apr11   0:38 ./Plex Media Server
999      16305  0.4  1.8 153264 75736 ?        SNl  Apr11   1:36 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.1.23-2172153 /mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/System.bundle
999      16354  0.0  0.4  99748 16092 ?        Sl   Apr11   0:01 /usr/local/plex/Plex DLNA Server
999      16375  0.0  0.5  64288 20188 ?        Sl   Apr11   0:07 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb] /mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.1.23-2172153 /mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/TheMovieDB.bundle
999      16378  0.0  0.5  61260 20392 ?        Sl   Apr11   0:01 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.plugins.spotify] /mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.1.23-2172153 /mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Spotify.bundle
root     28737  0.0  0.0   2452   584 pts/0    S+   01:25   0:00 grep 999

 

not the best idea to kill that one 

Perhaps make sure your remove root from the results. Eg add:

 

grep -Ev 'root|unraid'

its nearly 2 am, so i have to get up in 4 hours. n8

Fair enough. Just letting you know there's a problem 

I did have the same issue but instead opted to move plex to a cache/application drive. I didn't like Plex keeping all my drives busy 24/7 and wearing them out Got plex running on an SSD at the moment...makes for snappy metadata retrieval.

This works like a charm, thanks again. I prefer alternative section backgrounds and as my server is not running 24/7, I would prefer a "static" install of PMS on my cache drive. Maybe somebody has changed the plugin to that effect?

 

Thank you

This works like a charm, thanks again. I prefer alternative section backgrounds and as my server is not running 24/7, I would prefer a "static" install of PMS on my cache drive. Maybe somebody has changed the plugin to that effect?

 

Thank you

 

could you explain why? all your meta data is stored on an location of your choice. why do you need the binarys on a persistent storage?

 

The section background files (e.g. movie-fanart.jpg) are part of the binaries. With the plugin those are stored in usr/local/plex/Resources/Graphics. Plex client uses these files for the secondary screen (e.g. All movies - Unwatched - Recently released - etc). I don't really like the backgrounds and the skin I'm using has no option to change them. It is possible to change them though, by ("manually") replacing the jpg's. However, my server is not on 24/7 so on every re-start of the server I get my "old" backgrounds. Hope this is clear. Please let me know in case I'm overlooking something.

The section background files (e.g. movie-fanart.jpg) are part of the binaries. With the plugin those are stored in usr/local/plex/Resources/Graphics

Plugin doesn't do that, but you could opt to install plex on an app/cache drive instead (Change the plugin ..).

Thanks for your feedback. With some help from the author, I got this to work for me. Thanks a lot spidi!

np

I have been attempting to upgrade to this newest version of the plugin.

 

The old installation was at:

Installed folder: /mnt/disk1/plexapp

Application Support folder: /mnt/disk1/plexapp/library

Temporary folder: /mnt/disk1/plexapp.temp

Run As User: root

 

When upgrading, the instructions said to "remove old plugin." So I deleted these:

/boot/config/plugins/plex-media-server-plugin-noarchxxxx.plg

/boot/config/plugins/plex/

 

and did the installplg on the new plg file "plex-media-server-plugin-noarch-0.2-ds.plg"

 

It went through it's stuff, but the old server kept coming up. I then went into

/mnt/disk1/plexapp

And deleted everything in there, leaving the "Application Support/" "Resources/" "data/" and "library/" in tact.

 

Inside the unRaid web GUI, Plex appears under two tabs. It has an icon under the Settings tab, and another one under the "Utils" tab. Each icon goes to a different style of control for the media server. I have a hunch that there's only supposed to be one...

 

Under the "Utils" tab > Plex Media Server, I've updated all my directories to the ones I mentioned above. I get a big pink banner across the top: "Errors detected:

1. Cannot find Plex Media Server binary in installation folder!

You will be unable to start Plex Media Server until these errors are resolved. Note that clicking on Save Configuration will attempt to create all folders and initialization scripts required by this plugin."

 

When I hit Save Configuration, after putting all the correct folder paths in there, I still get the same error, but it looks like this:

"Errors detected:

1. Cannot find Plex Media Server binary in installation folder!

2. Cannot find Plex Media Server binary in installation folder!

...."

 

I suspected it was a permissions problem.

root@Dumbo:/mnt/disk1# chmod -R 777 plexapp

Still come up with the same error.

 

Also I've noticed that the Plex server DOES start up using the unRaid Web GUI "Settings" tab, but even with the correct path to the library, it starts up with an empty library and settings from my old installation. (/mnt/disk1/plexapp/library)

syslog.zip

log says you installed the old plugin:

Apr 14 16:31:18 Dumbo logger: installing plugin: plex-media-server-noarch-0.9.5.3b-ds

 

If you only have this plex-media-server-plugin-noarch-0.2-ds.plg in the plugin directory,

I would recommend an reboot.

hmmm.

Here's new outputs after the system restart:

 

root@Dumbo:/mnt/disk1/plexapp# ls /boot/config/plugins/
couchpotato/                                 sabnzbd/
couchpotato-0.5-i468-bw.plg*                 sabnzbd-0.4c-i468-bw.plg*
plex/                                        sickbeard/
plex-media-server-plugin-noarch-0.2-ds.plg*  sickbeard-0.4a-i468-1bw.plg*
root@Dumbo:/mnt/disk1/plexapp#

 

I've attached a ps -ef

I've attached the updated syslog

 

Looking in the log, I found that it did install the newer one:

installing plugin: plex-media-server-plugin-noarch-0.2-ds

 

But also uses the version of the server "/boot/config/plugins/plex/PlexMediaServer-0.9.5.3.309-524cf73-slackware131-i386.tar.bz2"

 

I am able to run the PMS from webGUI > Settings > PMS Server box, but I'm not able to do much from the webGUI > Utils > PMS Settings.

 

PMS is running, but my libraries are gone. There are no files in the /mnt/disk1/plexapp, and not much in any of the sub-folders.

 

Does this newer version of PMS keep it's binaries in a different folder?

 

What about why there are two ways to "control" PMS from the two different tabs in the unRaid webGUI?

 

root@Dumbo:/mnt/disk1/plexapp/library# /etc/rc.d/rc.plex version
v0.9.6.0.11-ba33da9
root@Dumbo:/mnt/disk1/plexapp/library#

ps-ef.txt

syslog.zip

that is not my plugin, thats stokkes's I think.

 

mine is under settings -> Nettwork Services

 

have you stokkes's *.tgz file under /boot/extra/ ?

Ok, cool. I'm going to stick with yours here as I think it's the newer of the two... so long as I/we can get it working. Thanks for helping btw.

 

So, how can I get this puppy to realize I already have a library built up in:

/mnt/disk1/plexapp/library

?

 

Under /mnt/disk1/plexapp/library there are more folders:

Application Support

    Plex Media Server/Cache, Logs, Plug-in Support, Plug-ins, Preferences.xml

 

Plex

    <empty>

 

Plex Media Library

    Cache, Media, Plug-in\ Support, Prefernces.xml, Logs, Metadata, Plug-ins, Scanners

 

 

I'm able to get PMS running from your plugin Settings > Network Services > PMS, but no joy for the library.

you have to point to "/mnt/disk1/plexapp/library" on the webinterface.

 

 

Yup, I've got it pointed there, but still no joy with finding the library.

there has to be a structure like this:

root@nas:/mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server# ls -al
total 9
drwxr-xr-x  9 unraid-plex users  296 2012-04-15 21:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 unraid-plex users   88 2011-11-02 20:47 ../
drwxr-xr-x  3 unraid-plex users   80 2011-11-17 22:03 Cache/
drwxr-xr-x  3 unraid-plex users  432 2012-04-15 11:49 Logs/
drwxr-xr-x  3 unraid-plex users   80 2011-11-01 17:37 Media/
drwxr-xr-x  6 unraid-plex users  144 2011-11-01 17:41 Metadata/
drwxr-xr-x  7 unraid-plex users  200 2011-11-01 17:52 Plug-in\ Support/
drwxr-xr-x 30 unraid-plex users 1072 2012-04-15 19:08 Plug-ins/
-rw-------  1 unraid-plex users  563 2012-04-15 21:27 Preferences.xml
drwxr-xr-x  2 unraid-plex users   80 2012-04-07 11:22 Scanners/
-rw-r--r--  1 unraid-plex users 1237 2012-04-01 12:53 dlnaclientprofiles.xml

That did it. I just had to move the directories by hand.

Thanks for the early morning weekend support.

kudos!

edit: nevermind I worked it out.

Where is the latest version of this plugin that supports DLNA?

 

Thanks

Myplex transcoding is still crashing for me every couple of days. Has anyone been able to resolve this issue? If not, does anyone know how to set up something that will restart plex nightly? That way I do not have to manually restart plex every couple of days?

 

Thanks