i did isntall the leastest version
plexmediaserver-1.16.1.1291-158e5b199.x86_64.rpm
hey im running openSUSE and when i try to make my library i get this:
There was an unexpected error loading this library.
what can i do to fix this?
At what particular step of the library creation does this error happen?
Does it happen whenever you try to create a library or e.g. only for specific settings/parameters (e.g. working for movie libraries but not music libraries, not working with certain folders…)?
i can made the lib and set it to my solder- then when i press done. i just see that error.
/home/usr/Videos/ like this path
im sue the TV-show thing. for i only use plex for that thing not music or movies or anything like that
I’m not 100% sure but this could be related to the folder you’re using. From what I understand, /home/usr/ refers to YOUR personal account‘s home directory.
On Linux, Plex is running under its own user (user plex / group plex). As that’s however not a „human“ user, I don’t think it even has a home directory… even if it does, it’s different from the directory you’re pointing to.
Can you try creating the library with a different directory (e.g. moving your movies to a new directory /plexmedia/Videos/). If it’s working but showing an empty library you might need to fix permissions to the folder structure so the plex user has read access,
hmm. its in here?
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/
for if there i can do anything…
/plexmedia/Videos/ ( `/plexmedia/) dont exsits.
sorry im still new to linux in trying it out to see if it can work for me^^
if so im not allowed to do anything here.
i did try to go up to / but im nto allowed to create anything in there
May I make some suggestions?
- type: sudo mkdir /home/plexmedia
- Now, using whatever your Linux username is, we will give that username ownership of /home/plexmedia
- As example: my username is chuck, so I now set Linux permissions such that I don’t need the sudo command all the time plus I can use the graphical interface. I do this by typing sudo chown chuck:chuck /home/plexmedia
- Now I’m free , using my normal signed-in desktop username, to create folders and put media there.
- Examples for testing would be to create a movies and tv folders
- To add them to Plex,
a. A movie library section would point to /home/plexmedia/movies
b. A TV library section would point to /home/plexmedia/tv
does this help a bit ?
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i will give it a try.
If, after you’ve pointed Plex at those two folders (movies and tv), it can’t see anything but you can, we will need to adjust the permissions a little more.
That’s easy
We fix the folders (directories in Linux)
sudo find /home/plexmedia -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
We fix the files (this one time only)
sudo find /home/plexmedia -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
i cant see my folder i did make…so i cant move anything… im supposed to use it inside of plex or what?
ok well first of. guess you did not look at my top post^^ im usneing OpenSUSE for its supported and arch was not
i did get into that folder that way you told me
https://i.imgur.com/nGbVsyd.png
and i was able to make a dir there i did move me file in there but i still get same error
i still have my stuff on a NTFs partition due to i have nto switched fulltime im still trying it. and i did try to add that one aswell. but it dont work same error
Sorry, 3am here.
This will help.
particularly.
ok i will look at it no problem man
ok now i dont know if i was on wrong server or what else but not it did show up. so something of the the things you said worked. for me
i only jsut put one thing there to try. thanks alot for the help i will save the commands for later use.
it works
its under: /home/plexmedia/tv
and i think i have to many servers, i have not done anything difrent i just did try and it just worked.
to many?
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