Empty Preferences.xml after saving a setting

[dmcafe_gmail_com]

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Hey all,

I’m a new user to Plex and have been trying to get Plex Server running on a RaspberryPi today. I’ve been successful in the install but kept running into general inconsistencies. After doing some digging I’ve found the cause of my problem… but I can’t figure out the root cause. One of 2 things breaks my build:

1. I save a setting via the GUI and immediately my preferences.xml file is 0k.
2. I restart the plexmediaserver service and my preferences.xml file reverts back to the default template.

Once the file starts saving a 0k, I’m lost. I can restore a saved copy but I’m guaranteed that #2 will come along and murder it on the next restart of the service or system.

It’s weird. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. If it works sometimes, then I figure permissions are correct. My only guess at this point is a bad SD card. I don’t like that guess though.

Any direction you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

[ChuckPa]

fsck (or whichever file system check is appropriate) on the file sytem.

[dmcafe_gmail_com]

For tracking purposes, I added the following to /boot/cmdline.txt:

fsck.mode=force

Checked the log for success.

journalctl | grep fsck

After that, I opened the GUI on the RPi and changed the Transcoder setting Transcoder quality and saved changes. Womp womp womp preferences.xml went to 0k. I confirmed that the file had the proper contents after my 2 reboots.