April 18, 201313 yr Hi I'm very much a newbie to unraid, and I have had plex working, but for some reason now it can't seem to get it running. When I look at settings on the web gui all i can see is the screen shot attached Looking around the forums I found the following so tried this via telnet /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start. I'm sorry if I sound thick, but I am really not sure what I am doing with this Thanks for any help I am using Unraid 5.0-rc11ß Syslog_18.04.13.txt
April 18, 201313 yr Do you have a cache drive? It is not a good idea to have the data where it is located now, if you reboot all of your config files and Library will disappear. Check to see if Plex is running In a telnet session: ps -ef | grep plex If it shows up, find the PID and issue this command: kill PID Then try /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start again.
April 19, 201313 yr Author Hi Thanks for your reply No I don't have a cache drive. I ended up uninstalling Plex yesterday and then re-installing it again, and it seemed to work, but it has gone off again now. This time tho it says it is running but I can't access it. It seems to happen when I'm moving files to Unraid or name changing them, that Plex seems to stop working.
April 19, 201313 yr Hi Thanks for your reply No I don't have a cache drive. I ended up uninstalling Plex yesterday and then re-installing it again, and it seemed to work, but it has gone off again now. This time tho it says it is running but I can't access it. It seems to happen when I'm moving files to Unraid or name changing them, that Plex seems to stop working. I've noticed if you dump too many files at once on plex it crashes, it works fine if you just have < 5 episodes/movies added per scan, any more and it seems to die. At-least, for me.
April 19, 201313 yr Thanks AUtomatic How do you start it again? /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver restart seems to work for me.
April 20, 201313 yr You need to have it store your library in a location different from where you have it in that screen shot. Since you don't have a cache drive you'll have to store it on the array. Where you have your library location set now is in RAM and your whole library will be lost upon a reboot. The other thing storing it in RAM, and possibly what is leading you it continually crashing, is that a Plex library takes up a lot of storage. If it's stored in RAM that is going to use up all your RAM and will cause other applications to close as Plex requests more and more RAM to store your library. For instance my Plex library is 3.5GB. Looking at your syslog you only have 2GB of RAM. Even without storing your library in RAM and storing it on your array, that is likely not enough to run Plex. Maybe if you're only running the unraid system and Plex but certainly not anything more plugins than that. You really out to get yourself an additional 2GB of RAM. You weren't planning to use Plex to transcode video so you can play it back on something like a phone or iPad were you? Because that CPU in the HP Microserver you're running are by no means up to that task.
April 20, 201313 yr I have my plex running in /mnt/user/unApps/plex/library and my temp library is /mnt/user/unApps/plex/tmp, both on my cache drive. Yet, plex never works for me after I reboot my server, I always have to reinstall it. My syslog only says the following when I try to start it: Apr 20 04:23:55 Apollo pms: Starting Plex... Apr 20 04:23:55 Apollo su[24804]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Apr 20 04:23:55 Apollo su[24804]: + /dev/pts/0 root:unraid-plex Apr 20 04:23:58 Apollo pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:01 Apollo pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:04 Apollo pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:07 Apollo pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:10 Apollo pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:33 Apollo su[24843]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Apr 20 04:24:33 Apollo su[24843]: + root:unraid-plex Apr 20 04:26:44 Apollo su[24972]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Apr 20 04:26:44 Apollo su[24972]: + root:unraid-plex
April 22, 201313 yr Author Thanks for that meow, sorry I didn't reply sooner not been online over the weekend... How should I name the library if it is on the array, do I need a share called plex?
April 22, 201313 yr Author Thanks for that meow, sorry I didn't reply sooner not been online over the weekend... How should I name the library if it is on the array, do I need a share called plex? sorry meant to say thanks mrow, bloody autocorrect
April 22, 201313 yr I have my plex running in /mnt/user/unApps/plex/library and my temp library is /mnt/user/unApps/plex/tmp, both on my cache drive. Yet, plex never works for me after I reboot my server, I always have to reinstall it. My syslog only says the following when I try to start it: Apr 20 04:23:55 Apollo pms: Starting Plex... Apr 20 04:23:55 Apollo su[24804]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Apr 20 04:23:55 Apollo su[24804]: + /dev/pts/0 root:unraid-plex Apr 20 04:23:58 Apollo pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:01 Apollo pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:04 Apollo pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:07 Apollo pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:10 Apollo pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong! Apr 20 04:24:33 Apollo su[24843]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Apr 20 04:24:33 Apollo su[24843]: + root:unraid-plex Apr 20 04:26:44 Apollo su[24972]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Apr 20 04:26:44 Apollo su[24972]: + root:unraid-plex Have you looked in the Plex logs to see if you can find any more info about the problem there?
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