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Plex Media Server

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So I've moved to this version of the plex plugin from WW/Influencers - since it's a newer version of Plex that seems to work better with the devices in my house.

 

My only problem is that Plex won't start automatically - the only way I can get it to run is to issue the command after my unraid box boots:

 

root@mediab0x:/usr/local/plexmediaserver# ./start.sh &

 

Any idea why I have to start it manually?

 

Thank you!

 

which version do you use?

 

try one of those PMS

 

0.9.6.4 for now, but

0.9.6.5 will be out shortly...

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Tried 0.9.6.4 as well, but after i select 'Yes' to start and press Save and Done, i don't get a link and it doesn't start, i have to start it manually, as posts above :/

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that can't be....

 

can you give me the output of:

egrep -i pms /var/log/syslog

 

Jul  4 20:11:15 Voltron pms: Plex Media Server: changing owner of /mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib to unraid-plex

Jul  4 20:11:15 Voltron pms: Plex Media Server: changing owner of  to unraid-plex

Jul  4 20:11:15 Voltron pms: Plex Media Server is not enabled

Jul  4 20:48:00 Voltron pms: Starting Plex...

Jul  4 20:48:02 Voltron pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jul  4 20:48:05 Voltron pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jul  4 20:48:08 Voltron pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jul  4 20:48:11 Voltron pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jul  4 20:48:14 Voltron pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jul  4 20:49:13 Voltron pms: Stopping Plex...

Jul  4 20:49:21 Voltron pms: Stopping Plex ... forced!

 

  • Author

and of

cat /boot/config/plugins/plexmediaserver/plex_settings.cfg

Cat after i re-enabled:

 

# plex configuration
DEFAULT_ENABLED="true"
DEFAULT_RUNAS="unraid-plex"
DEFAULT_TMPDIR="/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Temp"
DEFAULT_PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR="/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib"

 

Log remains the same.

Dir listing of /mnt/cache/.Services/Plex

 

drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody      users  96 2012-07-04 19:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 nobody      users 192 2012-07-04 19:52 ../
drwxrwxr-x 2 unraid-plex users  48 2012-07-04 19:52 Lib/
drwxr-xr-x 2 unraid-plex users  48 2012-07-04 19:52 Temp/

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pgrep -f Plex -l

New one on me!

 

20814 ./Plex Media Server

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ls -al "/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/"

 

 

The directory is empty! Plex hasn't started...

  • Author

ok than:

 

pkill should kill the running plex process

pkill -9 -f Plex
/etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start

 

Nothing changed. Im running RC5-Realtek with WW/Influencer Sab/Sick/Couch/Headphone plugins. Lib still empty.

 

root@Voltron:/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib# pkill -9 -f Plex
root@Voltron:/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib# /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start
root@Voltron:/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib# ls -al "/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/"
/bin/ls: cannot access /mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/: No such file or directory
root@Voltron:/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib# ls
root@Voltron:/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib# pgrep -f Plex -l
22095 ./Plex Media Server
root@Voltron:/mnt/cache/.Services/Plex/Lib#

 

Sorry to those subscribed to this thread..

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hmmm, did you reboot after removing the *.plg from the plex plugin?

I don't have a plg for a plex plugin? I never used WW/Influencers plex one. I just installed using installpkg as normal... in extra dir.

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can you do a reboot?

From syslog after reboot

 

Jul  4 22:26:52 Voltron pms: Starting Plex...
Jul  4 22:26:52 Voltron su[6562]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root
Jul  4 22:26:52 Voltron su[6562]: +  root:unraid-plex
Jul  4 22:26:54 Voltron pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Jul  4 22:26:57 Voltron pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Jul  4 22:27:00 Voltron pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Jul  4 22:27:03 Voltron pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Jul  4 22:27:06 Voltron pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

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ok then:

cd /usr/local/plexmediaserver
./start.sh

 

and post the output please

Yep that does it, as i said. It starts manually. Blank PMS now, im not sure if i should add anything in there?

 

Thanks for your patience, spidi!

 

root@Voltron:~# cd /usr/local/plexmediaserver
root@Voltron:/usr/local/plexmediaserver# ./start.sh

 

Im assuming as soon as i ctrl+c it will kill Plex.

If i do ./start.sh & then i can go to the manage page, otherwise, i had to press ctrl+c and do it. The output of that was:

 

root      8168  0.0  0.0   2448   584 pts/0    S+   22:44   0:00          \_ grep -i plex
999       6563  0.0  0.5  43004 10396 ?        Sl   22:26   0:00 ./Plex Media Server
root      8086  2.6  1.3  86444 27868 pts/0    SNl  22:42   0:03 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

 

And the output while it is running (./start.sh &)

 

root      8188  0.8  0.7 148700 16096 pts/0    Sl   22:44   0:00          |   \_ ./Plex Media Server
root      8218 23.8  1.4 103448 29736 pts/0    SNl  22:44   0:04          |       \_ 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
root      8249  0.4  0.6  93656 12688 pts/0    Sl   22:44   0:00          |       \_ /usr/local/plexmediaserver/Plex DLNA Server
root      8289  0.0  0.0   2448   588 pts/0    S+   22:45   0:00          \_ grep -i plex
999       6563  0.0  0.5  43004 10396 ?        Sl   22:26   0:00 ./Plex Media Server

 

  • Author

the strange thing is, there is a process running:

999      6563  0.0  0.5  43004 10396 ?        Sl  22:26  0:00 ./Plex Media Server

 

could you kill all plex processes and change the lib an tmp dir to:

 

/tmp/lib

/tmp/plextmp ??

 

and try to start throught the webinterface

and than a ps auxwf | egrep -i plex again.

That seems to have done the trick, but i lose things on reboot, right? So the problem lies with the initial directories in .Services. I deleted them, ran the plugin again, and it now works. Very bizarre!

 

 

root     10246  0.0  0.0   2364   584 pts/0    S+   22:57   0:00          \_ egrep -i plex
999       9689  1.0  0.8 183876 16644 ?        Sl   22:57   0:00 ./Plex Media Server
999       9780 29.2  1.9 121928 39408 ?        SNl  22:57   0:08  \_ Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/System.bundle
999       9856  0.3  0.6  93292 13052 ?        Sl   22:57   0:00  \_ /usr/local/plexmediaserver/Plex DLNA Server
999       9980  3.5  0.9  61728 18976 ?        Sl   22:57   0:00  \_ Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.tvrage] /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/TVRage.bundle
999      10037  5.9  1.0  65492 21736 ?        Sl   22:57   0:01  \_ Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb] /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/TheTVDB.bundle
999      10041  3.8  0.9  61748 18976 ?        Sl   22:57   0:00  \_ Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.plexthememusic] /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/PlexThemeMusic.bundle
999      10116  4.8  0.9  65124 19404 ?        Sl   22:57   0:00  \_ Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb] /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/TheMovieDB.bundle
999      10117  5.1  0.9  62572 19860 ?        Sl   22:57   0:00  \_ Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.wikipedia] /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Wikipedia.bundle
999      10177  7.5  1.0  60580 20776 ?        Sl   22:57   0:01  \_ Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.imdb] /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 0.9.6.4.154-c16a2c6 /tmp/lib/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/IMDB.bundle

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yes I would say so..

 

create an "cache only" share without a leading dot.

 

maybe /mnt/cache/appdata

 

and try

/mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library as Library and /tmp ....

It works now, so i won't break it again! Thanks spidi for the diagnostics, sorry to everyone else for the thread-flood!

 

I will give it a shot in the morning, i'll let it populate a part of the library as a test...

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np and n8

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