June 21, 201214 yr ok running the new version and yes it is more stable... had a few times weird stop messages from plex with the previous version which i was wanting to report yesterday but than i saw the new version and forgot all about it ... Anyway so far looks good... Oh yeah also running the new plextrakt plugin ... it is a plex plugin so it installs into the plex plugin folder and is accessible through the applications folder on the plex gui... now only need library upload working and everything is good
June 22, 201214 yr just to confirm after a complete media scan on both servers no more weird errors with plex.... running stable as she goes
June 22, 201214 yr So is there a simple guide to installing this and getting it configured? Because I can't figure it out. I've got it installed, but if I change the default settings for the library and temp locations at all, I can't get Plex to start. And if I don't touch those settings, then I can get Plex to start, and I can access the management webpage, but no matter what I do, I cannot get Plex to actually scan for media, and it doesn't remember settings when I restart (I'm assuming that /tmp is pointing to RAM?) This is a new unRAID build by the way. When I change the Library to point to, well, anything....it won't start. I've tried creating a /plex/Library folder on my first disk (so /mnt/disk1/plex/Library) and tried putting it on my thumb drive as well (not sure if that's even a good idea or not but I'm assuming it'd be fine on a 2GB thumb drive?) Is there some simple step-by-step guide to getting this thing working?
June 22, 201214 yr Author wich version do you use? 0.9.3 won't start plex from the webinterface you can only change the settings. use 0.9.4 beta. (http://elan.plexapp.com/2012/06/20/plex-media-server-v0-9-6-4/) in this version you can start/stop via werbinterface. /mnt/disk1/plex/Library looks like a good Library position. NEVER put the Library or tmp to your USB drive. (my Library is 8GB big) GUIDE: PMS has to be stopped.... Enable Plex Media Server: set to no then you can edit Library and TMP Enable Plex Media Server: set to yes push SAVE and yes /tmp is in RAM
June 22, 201214 yr OK, I reinstalled it, and was able to get it to start this time around. I think it was a permissions issue, I was creating the folders to point to for the library stuff myself. Maybe when I did that, it wasn't being given the appropriate permissions for Plex to access that folder. I created the library folder at /mnt/Users/.plex/Library (because shouldn't that not be automatically shared out?) this time and it started. However, I'm attempting to set up my media library now and it still doesn't seem to be picking anything up. I'm pointing it to: /mnt/user/Music /mnt/user/Videos/Movies /mnt/user/Videos/TV /mnt/user/Videos/Anime But it doesn't seem to register anything at all.
June 22, 201214 yr Im having serious issues with the latest plex media server, i've scanned in all my library, but when ever I try to stream to anything, it play's almost instantly, then stutter's and the audio's out of sync, and this continues to happen all way through what ever I stream - including SD content I disabled plex and set up serviio - this streams fine I tried xbmc with 1080p content - this also plays fine I've tried completely uninstalling plex and reinstalling, but same issue Im running a wired network from my router to my tv so I know there's no wireless issues It's got me really confused as my TV [LG 47LM620T-ZE] has built in plex capabilities and id love to be able to use this with out a hitch I have plex dlna server.log and plex dlna server neptune.log - but no were to upload them as pastebin aint free no more Anyone any thoughts?
June 22, 201214 yr http://alternativeto.net/software/pastebin/ You can also add a .txt extension to the end to be able to upload them, if they are too big you can zip them and attach them to your post as well
June 23, 201214 yr Thanks https://gist.github.com/2978055 <- Plex DLNA Server Neptune.log https://gist.github.com/2978075 <- Plex DLNA Server.log ( you may have to click view raw as it's 4mb )
June 23, 201214 yr I figured out my issue with why it wasn't picking up any files. Everything had file ownership for the root account. I ran the permissions utility and remapped drives as my user account, as it was mapping using the root account, and everything I'd copy over would automatically be given the incorrect permissions. I'm not used to thinking of stuff like that.
June 23, 201214 yr Author Im having serious issues with the latest plex media server, i've scanned in all my library, but when ever I try to stream to anything, it play's almost instantly, then stutter's and the audio's out of sync, and this continues to happen all way through what ever I stream - including SD content I disabled plex and set up serviio - this streams fine I tried xbmc with 1080p content - this also plays fine I've tried completely uninstalling plex and reinstalling, but same issue Im running a wired network from my router to my tv so I know there's no wireless issues It's got me really confused as my TV [LG 47LM620T-ZE] has built in plex capabilities and id love to be able to use this with out a hitch I have plex dlna server.log and plex dlna server neptune.log - but no were to upload them as pastebin aint free no more Anyone any thoughts? Where did you try XBMC? and what did you use as client for serviio? I ask because I don't know much about LG Medialink, but is your unRAID server strong enough to transcode everything? (if LG requires this?)
June 23, 201214 yr Where did you try XBMC? and what did you use as client for serviio? I ask because I don't know much about LG Medialink, but is your unRAID server strong enough to transcode everything? (if LG requires this?) I have a Acer Revo R3600 stand alone box with xbmc on it, serviio i installed the plugin on my server ( stat's in my sig ) and added my unsorted movies folder to test
June 23, 201214 yr To see your PMS version: Go to the web media manager and take directory portion off the URL ( the manage/section... Portion). The version is in the root XML near the end of the header... 0.9.something.
June 23, 201214 yr Author or, make it easy and go to the unRAID webinterface and look there (at least if you use on of my plugins)
June 24, 201214 yr I am trying to install 0.9.4, with little success. Here is my config file: # plex configuration DEFAULT_ENABLED="true" DEFAULT_RUNAS="unraid-plex" DEFAULT_TMPDIR="/mnt/user/Plex" DEFAULT_PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR="/mnt/user/Plex/Library" When I click save in the web interface, or do a /etc/rc/rc.plexmediaserver start, I see this in syslog: Jun 23 19:27:44 Tower pms: Plex Media Server: changing owner of to unraid-plex Jun 23 19:27:44 Tower pms: Starting Plex... Jun 23 19:27:44 Tower su[5789]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Jun 23 19:27:44 Tower su[5789]: + root:unraid-plex Jun 23 19:27:46 Tower pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 23 19:27:49 Tower pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 23 19:27:52 Tower pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 23 19:27:55 Tower pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 23 19:27:58 Tower pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! My log output is: PACKAGE NAME: PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6-unRAID COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 42064K UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 137010K PACKAGE LOCATION: ./PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6-unRAID.txz PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: PlexMediaServer: Plex Media Server PlexMediaServer: PlexMediaServer: Plex bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, PlexMediaServer: doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. PlexMediaServer: Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats without having to install any third PlexMediaServer: party video plugins and can stream online audio and video content served by Plex Media Server. PlexMediaServer: Your media has never looked this good! PlexMediaServer: PlexMediaServer: http://www.plexapp.com FILE LIST: ./ boot/ ... on and on and on... usr/local/emhttp/plugins/plexmediaserver/pms_48px.png Any ideas? Thanks!
June 24, 201214 yr hi first time you start it did same with me.. just wait patiently and it will start... i assume it was adjusting the database or set some permissions ...
June 24, 201214 yr Its been 4 hours and still no dice. I see two Plex processes: ps aux | grep Plex 999 5505 0.0 1.0 42796 10388 pts/0 Sl 19:24 0:00 ./Plex Media Server 999 5790 0.0 1.0 42796 10388 ? Sl 19:27 0:00 ./Plex Media Server root 15669 0.0 0.0 2448 588 pts/0 S+ 22:10 0:00 grep Plex but the Plex webserver isn't running from what I can tell. Netstat doesn't show any service listening on 32400. No change in Plex log.
June 24, 201214 yr Author @PleaseWork try /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver forcestop if after that these two processes are still running kill them with kill -9 PID then start PMS again.
June 24, 201214 yr Followed Spidi's instructions, and still the same issue. Only one Plex Server process running. Jun 24 07:09:04 Tower pms: Stopping Plex ... forced! Jun 24 07:09:28 Tower pms: Starting Plex... Jun 24 07:09:28 Tower su[14304]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Jun 24 07:09:28 Tower su[14304]: + root:unraid-plex Jun 24 07:09:31 Tower pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 24 07:09:34 Tower pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 24 07:09:37 Tower pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 24 07:09:40 Tower pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Jun 24 07:09:43 Tower pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
June 24, 201214 yr Author can start it this way? cd /usr/local/plexmediaserver/ ./start.sh please paste the output of this.
June 24, 201214 yr start.sh just hangs. So I imagine this is the issue. I manually backgrounded start.sh (./start.sh &), and in the process list I see: root 5172 2.0 1.4 126240 14524 pts/0 Sl 08:37 0:00 ./Plex Media Server root 5262 99.0 2.0 64364 20888 pts/0 Rl 08:37 0:01 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /root/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /root/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/System.bundle Netstat output is now very weird. I see hundreds of TIME_WAIT connections to and from 32400. The Plex web interface responds in the current state, but obviously something is off. Any ways to get some more verbose debug output?
June 24, 201214 yr Author please kill all PMS processes, and start it with /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start what happens than?
June 24, 201214 yr please kill all PMS processes, and start it with /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start what happens than? This returns me to the console correctly, but the web server never starts. After full kill and start, process list: 999 19472 0.0 1.0 42796 10388 pts/0 Sl 12:00 0:00 ./Plex Media Server root 19547 0.0 0.0 2448 584 pts/0 S+ 12:00 0:00 grep Plex and no responding webpage this time.
June 24, 201214 yr I'm try to update mi PMS on unRAID, but I don't have the /boot/extra/ folder on my installation. Must I create the folders?
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