Robertxc Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Hi. I've been using PMS for a long time with no problems whatsoever. Yesterday however, after a reboot of my Unraid box Plex has failed to start at all. I am using Unraid 6.0-beta9, which I updated from beta8 yesterday, to see if that fixed things. I am also using PlexMediaServer-0.9.10.1.585. The PMS configuration page in Unraid shows Plex as Stopped, and both the input boxes for the directories are blank. If I try to put anything in the directory boxes, nothing happens when I click 'Apply' If I hit 'Done' and go back into the PMS settings page, the boxes are blank again. The Unraid log after reboot is as follows: /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog 2>&1 Sep 22 10:34:06 Tower avahi-daemon[1880]: Files changed, reloading. Sep 22 10:34:06 Tower avahi-daemon[1880]: Service group file /etc/avahi/services/afp.service changed, reloading. Sep 22 10:34:06 Tower emhttp: shcmd (85): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event svcs_restarted Sep 22 10:34:06 Tower emhttp_event: svcs_restarted Sep 22 10:34:06 Tower emhttp: shcmd (86): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event started Sep 22 10:34:06 Tower emhttp_event: started Sep 22 10:34:07 Tower avahi-daemon[1880]: Service "Tower" (/etc/avahi/services/smb.service) successfully established. Sep 22 10:34:07 Tower avahi-daemon[1880]: Service "Tower-AFP" (/etc/avahi/services/afp.service) successfully established. Sep 22 10:34:28 Tower su[2243]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Sep 22 10:34:28 Tower su[2243]: + root:unraid-plex Sep 22 10:38:15 Tower su[2311]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root Sep 22 10:38:15 Tower su[2311]: + root:unraid-plex The last four entries relate to two attempts to start Plex. The monitor attached to the server itself shows the following: Tower login: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'kvm_amd' : Operation not supported mkdir: cannot create directory ** No such file or directory stat: cannot stat **: No such file or directory chown: cannot access **: No such file or directory Thanks on advance for any suggestions... Quote Link to comment
Robertxc Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 Sorry, just realised this was posted in the wrong section! Can someone move it for me please? Quote Link to comment
afc Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I am not an expert but I had a similar problem with Plex and it was a permission problem!! what I did was I Telnet to the server and change the owner to nobody and the group to users manually!! and then Plex started!! also make sure that in the Plex settings you use the user nobody!! Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Will move. Is Plex in this instance a docker container, a VM, or a Plugin? Quote Link to comment
Robertxc Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 Thanks for the replies, and thanks also for moving the post jonp! It is running as a plugin. Someone on the Plex forums suggested it might be a startup bug in latest version of PMS, and suggested moving to an older version. I've tried the oldest 64bit version (which is not that old at all - 3/4 weeks I think), but that made no difference. I tend to think that afc might be right and that it is a permissions problem. I know next to nothing about Linux permissions and would be very grateful if someone could show me some example commands. What is further puzzling me is that today I did a complete Unraid reinstall. I had been planning to do it for some time, and so did it now in the hopes it might also solve my Plex problem; it did not... When reinstalling it I only copied my pro key plus disk.cfg, ident.cfg, network.cfg and share.cfg. Would any of these files contain information that might affect Plex working? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Thanks for the replies, and thanks also for moving the post jonp! It is running as a plugin. Someone on the Plex forums suggested it might be a startup bug in latest version of PMS, and suggested moving to an older version. I've tried the oldest 64bit version (which is not that old at all - 3/4 weeks I think), but that made no difference. I tend to think that afc might be right and that it is a permissions problem. I know next to nothing about Linux permissions and would be very grateful if someone could show me some example commands. What is further puzzling me is that today I did a complete Unraid reinstall. I had been planning to do it for some time, and so did it now in the hopes it might also solve my Plex problem; it did not... When reinstalling it I only copied my pro key plus disk.cfg, ident.cfg, network.cfg and share.cfg. Would any of these files contain information that might affect Plex working? Thanks in advance. Can you try running needos docker version of Plex and see if that works? Quote Link to comment
jumperalex Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 If you are having pms start up trouble you likely have a permission problem Quote Link to comment
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