Linux Mit does not acknowledge the server is installed

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Server Version#: 1.18.7.2415-9930aef45

Hello, I am using Mint 19.2. Plex server installs with no errors and plays network media fine. I cannot add my own media. When I select ‘+ Your Media’ it prompts me to install Plex Server. I cannot get out of that loop.

thanks, Bj

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After installing, did you complete the setup by opening http://127.0.0.1:32400/web in your browser ?

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I appreciate the reply. I tried to open that url and the site will not open. There is no message, error or otherwise. The browser sits there spinning endlessly.

Bj.

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Is the server on the machine you’re trying to access it from,
on another machine on your LAN,
or at a remote location?

If it sits there and spins, it implies the server is on your machine.
The next step would be to sign-out of the Plex/Web browser (upper right corner), ope an incognito window, and repeat

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The Plex server is on the pc I am logging in from (Intel i5 4gb ram). I tried the incognito mode with the same results. I tried both Firefox and Chromium.

Bj

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How “invested” are you in Mint?

I ask this for several reasons:

  1. It has all kinds of inexplicable quirks where it will fail for no reason.
  2. Whenever there is a problem with a basic PMS operation, such as what you’re doing, I almost always find Mint is the host OS.
  3. For the two primary reasons above, it’s not supported

I see a lot of new Linux users think Mint is the answer.
Whomever wrote those web pages should be shot!

It’s a derivative of Ubuntu, which is a derivative of Debian.
One must ask “So what did they cut out of it that they shouldn’t have?”

I have many cases where folks will tell me that after going directly to Ubuntu, all their problems were gone and never seen again.

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Hi. So far as vested in Mint its a short word and I can spell it. I installed Plex Server on my regular Mint PC just to see how it would go. About three keystrokes and I was done. Weird. I will try Ubuntu on this PC. Darn, Ubuntu - another word I have to get used to…

thanks, Bj

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Not wanting to confuse you even more but do consider fedora if your looking for a solid Linux desktop. Far superior to ubuntu IMO.

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While I would love to chat and discuss the merits of all the different distros since I have all of them in VMs here for my development and support work, I’d prefer we stay on topic. :wink: I will only say this, in hopes someone starts a General Discussions topic about it, I am a diehard Fedora user. Recent management changes made me switch last weekend because it seems they no longer can keep kernel and kernel-header package version in sync. Ubuntu 20.04 RC has my attention in a profound way.

Diehard Fedora users will recognize this in a heartbeat. This is my current desktop. Read the contens of the Gnome shell window. :smiling_imp:

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Well I tried a few times to install Fedora (both off cd and usb) however I always get a dracut error and install stops there. I will close this msg thread since it is way off topic now…unless someone can give me a solution to the Fedora workstation install error… :slight_smile:

thanks all

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What are you installing Fedora on? In all my years of Fedora, I’ve never had a dracut failure during installation

This is your thread so it can go wherever you want it to

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I (vaguely) remember having dracut failures during the fedora 20+ releases years & years ago (maybe f22) but have not had anything recently. F31 is rock solid.

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Hi Chuck. Well Unbuntu solved my Plex troubles, thanks! It’s not as snappy as Mint however this will just be a media server PC so I can suffer through it.

thanks again

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