The other evening I installed an update for the server to the latest at the time - 1.22.1. The next morning I found the server had crashed and all attempts to restart it since have failed, including downgrading to a much earlier version. Here is the log:
subwolf@subwolf-tk:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i /home/subwolf/Downloads/plexmediaserver_1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
(Reading database ... 541272 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver_1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91_amd64.deb ...
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation.
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation complete.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.18.9.2571-e106a8a91) ...
PlexMediaServer install:
PlexMediaServer install: Now installing based on:
PlexMediaServer install: Process Control: Systemd
PlexMediaServer install: Plex User: plex
PlexMediaServer install: Plex Group: plex
PlexMediaServer install: Video Group: video
PlexMediaServer install: Metadata Dir: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support
PlexMediaServer install: Temp Directory: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/tmp_transcoding
PlexMediaServer install: Lang Encoding: en_US.UTF-8
PlexMediaServer install: HW transcoding: Found
PlexMediaServer install:
PlexMediaServer install: Completing final configuration.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service → /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.
Job for plexmediaserver.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status plexmediaserver.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--install):
installed plexmediaserver package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint5) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
plexmediaserver
I’ve tried some of the tips I’ve seen browsing the forums, including looking at the /tmp/plexmediaserver.log which just shows installation settings, using systemctl (no help), journalctl (only shows vnstat) and I’m out of ideas. I’m running Linux Mint and have used Plex Server for years with no problems.
Help!
Server Version#: 1.18.9.2571
Player Version#: 4.54.4
