Plex Media Server for Debian

w00t

MoxZ wrote:

Now you should be set to go.

Hm.

xx@xx:/var/lib$ sudo apt-get purge plexmediaserver
[sudo] password for xxx:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
avahi-utils libnss-mdns libavahi-core7 debian-plex-keyring libdaemon0
avahi-daemon
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
plexmediaserver*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 50936 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing plexmediaserver ...
Purging configuration files for plexmediaserver ...
/usr/sbin/deluser: The user `plex' does not exist.
dpkg: error processing plexmediaserver (--purge):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
plexmediaserver
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

xx@xx:/var/lib$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze Release
Ign http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze/main amd64 Packages
Reading package lists... Done

xx@xx:/var/lib$ sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
debian-plex-keyring
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
plexmediaserver
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/74.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package plexmediaserver.
(Reading database ... 50936 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking plexmediaserver (from .../plexmediaserver_0.9.7.7.339-5ec3b53_amd64.de ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (0.9.7.7.339-5ec3b53) ...
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: script 'K01rtorrent' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'rtorrent' missing LSB tags and overrides
Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)...
Starting Plex Media Server: done

xx@xx:/var/lib$ ps aux | grep plex
xxx 10828 0.0 0.0 10136 840 pts/0 S+ 17:14 0:00 grep plex

xx@xx:/var/lib$ ls plexmediaserver/
Library

xx@xx:/var/lib$ sudo /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver start
Starting Plex Media Server: done
xx@xx:/var/lib$ sudo /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver status
Plex Media Server process running.

xx@xx:/var/lib$ sudo ps aux | grep plex
xx 11348 0.0 0.0 10136 840 pts/0 S+ 17:21 0:00 grep plex

Note that i'm not that good with linux overall so I really don't know what to do with those errors

EDIT: This is strange. Just did everything all over once again and now it actually starts (?). Some **** probably happened when I uninstalled it the non-proper way

Fortsätt med grymt arbete!

EDI2: Well, it starts and I can browse /manage. However it hangs on "Get started: Please wait a moment while Plex starts."

xx@xx:/var/lib$ sudo ps aux | grep plex
plex 12880 0.0 0.0 13188 1224 pts/0 S 17:38 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/start_pms
plex 12888 0.0 0.0 13188 628 pts/0 S 17:38 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/start_pms
plex 12889 0.2 0.4 576940 9672 pts/0 Sl 17:38 0:00 ./Plex Media Server
plex 12916 0.0 0.2 424628 5664 pts/0 Sl 17:38 0:00 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex DLNA Server
plex 12967 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 Z 17:38 0:00 [python] <defunct>
xx 13238 0.0 0.0 10136 840 pts/0 S+ 17:41 0:00 grep plex

Any clue?

yakumo

Yhea I also get "Please wait a moment while Plex starts."
I usally just skip that part and set everything up without the guide. Caould you try that just skip the initial setup. I think there is a button for that in the webinterface.

w00t

MoxZ wrote:

Yhea I also get "Please wait a moment while Plex starts."
I usally just skip that part and set everything up without the guide. Caould you try that just skip the initial setup. I think there is a button for that in the webinterface.

When I do I can browse the settings but nothing "works". When adding folders to watch for example nothing happens. Pressing "install channels" is says "Kanalbiblioteket är för närvarande inte tillgängligt."

yakumo

You have some serious issues my friend.
What version of Debian are you running ? and could you please do an ls -la on your /var/lib/plexmediaserver and paste the result here?

w00t

MoxZ wrote:

You have some serious issues my friend.
What version of Debian are you running ? and could you please do an ls -la on your /var/lib/plexmediaserver and paste the result here?

Indeed. Tho everything worked like a charm before I uninstalled it. Debian 6 64-bit it is.

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 (squeeze)
Release: 6.0.6
Codename: squeeze

uname -srv
Linux 3.2.13-grsec-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 29 09:48:59 UTC 2012

sudo ls -la /var/lib/plexmediaserver
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 17:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 41 root root 4096 Dec 15 17:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 17:48 Library

/var/lib$ sudo ls -la /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 6 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 17:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 17:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 17:48 Cache
drwxr-xr-x 3 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 19:12 Logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex nogroup 5 Dec 15 19:12 plexmediaserver.pid
drwxr-xr-x 23 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 17:48 Plug-ins
drwxr-xr-x 5 plex nogroup 4096 Dec 15 17:48 Plug-in Support
-rw

---

1 plex nogroup 198 Dec 15 17:49 Preferences.xml

yakumo

FYI
He solved it by reinstalling the package again we sorted it out in a priv thread

Kega

Greetings.

After seeing some of the cool functions of Plex and using it with PleXBMC, I needed to try it out.

But I have a few questions, hope it's okay I ask here. I'm using VirtualBox (installed on OMV) running a virtual OMV to test it out, and have installed using the "guide" on the first page.
But first problem I ran into, is that Plex can't see my smb shares. Any easy way around this? Being a Linux noob and Google haven't helped a lot.
Secondly, how to move the database. Right now Plex gets installed on my main disk, and all the Plex data will be there as well. In case my main disk dies or I have to change it, I would love to change the location of the database.
Is there any way of testing out Plex for mobile devices with out throwing 5$ at it - a trial app perhaps?

Thanks for any help

ziggimon

Kega wrote:

Greetings.

After seeing some of the cool functions of Plex and using it with PleXBMC, I needed to try it out.

But I have a few questions, hope it's okay I ask here. I'm using VirtualBox (installed on OMV) running a virtual OMV to test it out, and have installed using the "guide" on the first page.
But first problem I ran into, is that Plex can't see my smb shares. Any easy way around this? Being a Linux noob and Google haven't helped a lot.
Secondly, how to move the database. Right now Plex gets installed on my main disk, and all the Plex data will be there as well. In case my main disk dies or I have to change it, I would love to change the location of the database.
Is there any way of testing out Plex for mobile devices with out throwing 5$ at it - a trial app perhaps?

Thanks for any help

Welcome to Plex

1: Plex doesn't support directly connecting to smb shares. You will have to mount those to your VirtualBox guest and point Plex Media Server to the path you mount them in (ensure that user plex can read the smb mount points or Plex won't pick up your media)
2: The database on linux in all the main linux branches ends here: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server
3: No trial apps

/Mark

Kega

ziggimon wrote:

Welcome to Plex

1: Plex doesn't support directly connecting to smb shares. You will have to mount those to your VirtualBox guest and point Plex Media Server to the path you mount them in (ensure that user plex can read the smb mount points or Plex won't pick up your media)
2: The database on linux in all the main linux branches ends here: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server
3: No trial apps

/Mark

Wow. Thanks

1: Can I ask if you have any idea how that's done or can point me in a direction of where I can find a idiot friendly guide. I have been looking for a couple of days, and are still lost and have no clue on how to do it
2: Okay, was hoping there was a hidden option where I could pick my own location for the database. Makes it easier to backup, should something horrible happen. But thanks, now I know where I can find it
3: Bummer, well 5$ is not an insane amount of money - so will properly survive

yakumo

Kega wrote:

Wow. Thanks

1: Can I ask if you have any idea how that's done or can point me in a direction of where I can find a idiot friendly guide. I have been looking for a couple of days, and are still lost and have no clue on how to do it
2: Okay, was hoping there was a hidden option where I could pick my own location for the database. Makes it easier to backup, should something horrible happen. But thanks, now I know where I can find it
3: Bummer, well 5$ is not an insane amount of money - so will properly survive

1. something like this http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-mount-remote-windows-partition-windows-share-under-linux.html

2. move the databse to wherever yo like and make an symlink to it from the original folder ln -sf /home/user/database.db /var/lib/plexmediaserver/bla/bla/bla/databse.db
Ofcourse use the realpaths and names

3. Give em the money !! They sure deserve every penny we have :P

silencebreak

Hi there,
I've got the following issue:
I downloaded the Plex 64-Bit Version for Ubuntu and unpacked it on my Dlink DNS-325 with Debian Squeeze.
After that i tried to run your commands and got the following errors:

root@dlink-049E61:/home/abc/plexmediaserver/usr/lib/plexmediaserver# sudo wget http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/shell-ninthgate-se-keyring.key | sudo apt-key add -
--2012-12-29 00:34:37-- http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/shell-ninthgate-se-keyring.key
Resolving shell.ninthgate.se... 195.22.88.165
Connecting to shell.ninthgate.se|195.22.88.165|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1748 (1.7K) [application/pgp-keys]
Saving to: `shell-ninthgate-se-keyring.key.1'

100%[======================================>] 1,748 --.-K/s in 0s

2012-12-29 00:34:39 (52.3 MB/s) - `shell-ninthgate-se-keyring.key.1' saved [1748/1748]

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
root@dlink-049E61:/home/abc/plexmediaserver/usr/lib/plexmediaserver# sudo apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.ca.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Get:1 http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze Release.gpg [490 B]
Ign http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Get:2 http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze Release [2265 B]
Ign http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze Release
Ign http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en
Err http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze/main armel Packages
404 Not Found
Ign http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/non-free Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.ca.debian.org squeeze Release
Hit http://ftp.ca.debian.org squeeze/main armel Packages
Hit http://ftp.ca.debian.org squeeze/contrib armel Packages
Hit http://ftp.ca.debian.org squeeze/non-free armel Packages
Fetched 491 B in 2s (230 B/s)
W: GPG error: http://shell.ninthgate.se squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY E639BFCB72740199
W: Failed to fetch http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-armel/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@dlink-049E61:/home/abc/plexmediaserver/usr/lib/plexmediaserver# sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package plexmediaserver

Trudge

silencebreak wrote:

Hi there,
I've got the following issue:
I downloaded the Plex 64-Bit Version for Ubuntu and unpacked it on my Dlink DNS-325 with Debian Squeeze.
After that i tried to run your commands and got the following errors:

You are trying to install a package designed for an X86 CPU onto a NAS which has an ARM based CPU - there is no package for your NAS.

silencebreak

Trudge wrote:

You are trying to install a package designed for an X86 CPU onto a NAS which has an ARM based CPU - there is no package for your NAS.

that's why i tried this installation first and found a little bit later this tutorial for Debian Squeeze which installed on my NAS.
On which Server is this installation based?

Kega

MoxZ wrote:

1. something like this http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-mount-remote-windows-partition-windows-share-under-linux.html

2. move the databse to wherever yo like and make an symlink to it from the original folder ln -sf /home/user/database.db /var/lib/plexmediaserver/bla/bla/bla/databse.db
Ofcourse use the realpaths and names

3. Give em the money !! They sure deserve every penny we have :P

Sorry for the late reply. But your wise words helped me a lot and I got it working - sort of

1. Great link, it was explain so simple I could figure it out

2. Still haven't tried it yet.

3. I tried buying it for my android tablet but can't for the life of me get it to connect to the server. And I really don't want to use myPlex and start streaming to the whole work - plus myPlex cost money right? My PleXBMC had no trouble finding it and streaming from it. BTW, does anybody know if it's the Plex Media server that does the transcoding or XBMC HTPC when using PleXBMC? Also, is it the Plex server or XBMC that handles which files have been view or how far they have been viewed. (Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask).

yakumo

Kega wrote:

Sorry for the late reply. But your wise words helped me a lot and I got it working - sort of

1. Great link, it was explain so simple I could figure it out

2. Still haven't tried it yet.

3. I tried buying it for my android tablet but can't for the life of me get it to connect to the server. And I really don't want to use myPlex and start streaming to the whole work - plus myPlex cost money right? My PleXBMC had no trouble finding it and streaming from it. BTW, does anybody know if it's the Plex Media server that does the transcoding or XBMC HTPC when using PleXBMC? Also, is it the Plex server or XBMC that handles which files have been view or how far they have been viewed. (Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask).

Myplex does not cost any money. Plexpass costs money.
when using PlexBMC no transcoding is involved at all your HTPC takes the file in its raw form and displays it unless you configure PlexBMC to use transcoded streams and then it is your PMS machine that does the transcoding.

dzseko

Hello!
I have installed the plexmediaserver on debian6 with MoxZ repository.
Got the same issue before mentioned.
Adding sections and folders does not work.
Any idea?
Please help.

Thanx

yakumo

dzseko wrote:

Hello!
I have installed the plexmediaserver on debian6 with MoxZ repository.
Got the same issue before mentioned.
Adding sections and folders does not work.
Any idea?
Please help.

Thanx

Can you give us some logs to lock @?

dzseko

I copied it but it was too long. Any other way to present it? Can I send it to an email address?
Anyway this is the most relevant part of it I suppose:

Dec 31, 2012 18:41:17 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Request: GET /system/agents?mediaType=1 [127.0.0.1:40490] (2 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:17 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - * mediaType => 1
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:17 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - Request: GET /system/scanners/1 [127.0.0.1:40489] (1 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Request: GET /services/browse [127.0.0.1:40492] (2 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Filesystem Type: ext3 Path: / Name: /dev/sda5
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Filesystem Type: ext3 Path: /boot Name: /dev/sda2
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Filesystem Type: ext3 Path: /home Name: /dev/sda6
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Filesystem Type: fusectl Path: /sys/fs/fuse/connections Name: fusectl
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Filesystem Type: binfmt_misc Path: /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc Name: binfmt_misc
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Filesystem Type: fuseblk Path: /media/Új kötet Name: /dev/sdb1
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - It took 0.000000 sec to serialize a list with 6 elements.
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - Request: GET /web/font/DejaVuSansCondensedBold.ttf [127.0.0.1:40491] (1 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - Final path: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/WebClient.bundle/Contents/Resources/font/DejaVuSansCondensedBold.ttf
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:29 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - Content-Length of /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/WebClient.bundle/Contents/Resources/font/DejaVuSansCondensedBold.ttf is 36796.
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:35 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Request: GET /services/browse/L21lZGlhL8OaaiBrw7Z0ZXQ= [127.0.0.1:40493] (1 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:35 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - DirectoryBrowser: Decoded [L21lZGlhL8OaaiBrw7Z0ZXQ=] to [/media/Új kötet]
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:35 [0xa5efdb70] ERROR - Error listing directory [/media/Új kötet] - boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::construct: Permission denied: "/media/Új kötet"
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:35 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - It took 0.000000 sec to serialize a list with 0 elements.
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb4933b70] DEBUG - Saving 0 bytes of expected 0 for a POST.
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - Request: POST /library/sections?type=movie&agent=&scanner=&language=&location=%2Fmedia%2F%C3%9Aj+k%C3%B6tet%2Fmovies&name=Movies [127.0.0.1:40494] (1 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * type => movie
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * agent =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * scanner =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * language =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * location => /media/Új kötet/movies
Dec 31, 2012 18:42:35 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * name => Movies
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xb4933b70] DEBUG - Saving 0 bytes of expected 0 for a POST.
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - Request: POST /library/sections?type=movie&agent=&scanner=&language=&location=%2Fmedia%2F%C3%9Aj+k%C3%B6tet%2Fmovies&name=Movies [127.0.0.1:40495] (1 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - * type => movie
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - * agent =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - * scanner =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - * language =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - * location => /media/Új kötet/movies
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:04 [0xa5efdb70] DEBUG - * name => Movies
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb4933b70] DEBUG - Saving 0 bytes of expected 0 for a POST.
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - Request: POST /library/sections?type=movie&agent=&scanner=&language=&location=%2Fmedia%2F%C3%9Aj+k%C3%B6tet%2Fmovies&name=Movies [127.0.0.1:40496] (1 live)
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * type => movie
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * agent =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * scanner =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * language =>
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * location => /media/Új kötet/movies
Dec 31, 2012 18:43:44 [0xb0874b70] DEBUG - * name => Movies
Dec 31, 2012 18:44:35 [0xb4933b70] DEBUG - Saving 0 bytes of expected 0 for a POST.

Trudge

dzseko wrote:

I copied it but it was too long. Any other way to present it? Can I send it to an email address?

attach it.

yakumo

Could this be your problem ?
Dec 31, 2012 18:41:35 [0xa5efdb70] ERROR - Error listing directory [/media/Új kötet] - boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::construct: Permission denied: "/media/Új kötet"
PMS does not have access to read your dir.
Do your folder have the right ownership and file permissions? There is a stycke thread about file permissions.