My logs are being spammed with this error. It’s been happening for months now. I have tried to reinstall plex with no solution.
This is running on an Ubuntu system.
Warning: ex: boost::filesystem::last_write_time: No such file or directory: “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-36236cc4c/Musicbrainz.bundle/Contents/Code/init.py”, couldn’t check file: “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-36236cc4c/Musicbrainz.bundle/Contents/Code/init.py”
Now the cause of the error seems obvious to me. I do not have a Plug-ins-36236cc4c directory.
I do have a Plug-ins-e67a4e892 directory.
Why is plex using the wrong directory and how do I change it?
Respectfully, this is not helpful in answering my question.
Firstly my example of Musicbrainz is just one of many. It’s complaining about all sorts of plugins not being found.
At no point have I been in the business of managing plugins. As far as I know I didn’t put any of them there and it is not my responsibility. As far as I know these came in as defaults with my plex installation.
At no point did I create the Plug-ins-36236cc4c directory.
At no point did I create the Plug-ins-e67a4e892.
At no point did I cause the problem where it’s trying to read from the Plug-ins-36236cc4c directory, and I did not cause the problem where it stopped reading from the Plug-ins-e67a4e892.
If these plugins are in the wrong directory that doesn’t help in answering the question, why is it trying to read them from a non-existent directory.
My first and most urgent question is, what determines which directory it’s reading from? Why is it trying to read from Plug-ins-36236cc4c?
Why did it used to read from Plug-ins-e67a4e892?
Why is it reading from either of these if you say that “plugins doesn’t belong in Resources/Plug-Ins directory”?
I never asked it to read from there, and I never put them there.
All I know is as a customer my plex install was working fine until recently. Then fetching cover art and other problems started to crop up. Checking the logs shows thousands upon thousands of log lines complaining about this.
I’ve renamed the plugins folder to the one that it wants and that seems to have solved the cover art problem.
If I moved these plugins to where you say I have two issues with that.
I don’t see how it would stop plex from complaining about not finding them in the directory that it wants to find them in.
I don’t see why I would have to do this suddenly when it’s been operating fine until recently.
I want to know why plex used to use one directory and now uses another. I’m taking about e67a4e892 versus 36236cc4c. What changed? What caused this?
I was plain wrong here, since it’s an official one, just not one I ever use
There’s a new one created when ever you install a new version of PMS, and holds system (plex) provided plugins.
Only 3.Party plugins doesn’t belong there, Plex provided ones does
That would indicate a bad install/upgrade
You did an PMS upgrade, that wasn’t successful I would guess, but as said here, simply guessing, since you didn’t provide much info here, like OS, PMS Version as well as a zip of your log directory
Try and download/upgrade to the latest version, and if that fails, provide the info from above
Awesome thank you very much for providing some context. And upgrade did not get me out of a bad state. I manually renamed the folder to get past it my knowing what else to try.
I will spend some time collecting information and follow up. I believe there are other problems that are less obvious. Such as detecting new episodes seems to be hit or miss.
Quickest fix I found for this issue is to stop the plexmediaserver service. Then remove any of the Plug-in-xxxxxxxx folders. Then reinstall the current version of plex you are on. That should clean up any issues with it trying to reference the previous plug in directories.
It appears to be caused by a failed upgrade that didn’t fully update all the records it needed to. Doing this should fix any issues you may have with metadata tagging being hit or miss or being unable to access the settings menu.
