Linuxmint PLEX server will not boot

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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My PLEX server was working fine last night before I locked the session and went to bed. This morning, I cannot access it at all. The machine will not boot to the GUI.

This install is less than a week old for both PLEX and the underlying Linux. I’m beginning to wonder if this product is worthwhile.

Also, before it started acting hinkey, it was complain of a storage shortage of < 2GB. This is impossible since the dedicated system drive has a fill 1TB of space that is 80% unused.

Can anyone please help me out here?

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Before you start blaming Plex, please be advised the other user who had a problem with Mint was because of the underlying Mint installation.

If Linux itself can’t boot, you have the answer. It’s Linux, not PMS.
PMS doesn’t modify the base OS

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I’ve investigated further, tried running fsck on the system drive (/dev/sda1) but get nothing back. When examined by booting from a USB of Mint, it shows that drive as FULL. This cannot be unless PLEX filled it, somehow.

The machine in question is dedicated to PLEX, practically speaking. It is the only thing I use the system for. Since this is the case, when it screws-up running PLEX, yes, I have a tendency to blame your product. If you can’t be constructive with me, I’ll be happy to go elsewhere.

Really, Chuck, I thought better of you from our last interaction. I rebuilt the system from scratch and moved all of the media from NTFS drives to EXT4. I’ve done a ■■■■-ton of work on this and am very disappointed.

So, can you folks help me, or not?

  • Steve
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If you already went so far with analysis, why not investigate where all that space went?

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The layout of PLEX on my system is completely opaque so further analysis is not possible. Also, I don’t need to be asked snide questions like that.

Just tell me how to cancel my PLEX PASS so that we can be done. This has become an unpleasant adventure that I don’t care to spend more time on.

Disappointedly …

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df -m
du -ms /var/lib/plexmediaserver

with all partitions hand/temp mounted please.

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The system reports:

  1. the ds command is not available; and

  2. du -ms /var/lib/plexmediaserver reports that it does not exist. If there is something other than ‘plexmediaserver’ that I am supposed to have entered I have no idea what it is.

The du command reports all of the “.” hidden files on the system drive. I am loathe to mount my media drives in this situation as I am afraid for their safety in this scenario. I’m sure you understand.

Thank you.

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OK. My mistake. df not ds.

df reports the drive is 100% used.
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  1. du -ms /var/lib/plexmediaserver reports the total amount of space utilized for all files and diretories, whether hidden or not.
  2. df is a partition / mount point level report and has nothing to do with hidden (dot) files.

May I have the requested information please (Copy / paste of console output)?

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I just tried to restore my system using Mint’s Timeshift utility without success.

I cannot run the gui on the machine with the problem so I cannot send anything of any size to you. I will be trying to restore the function of my system but first need to remove some material so it has some wiggle room.

I’ll be in touch. Thank you.

  • Steve
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If you could direct me to cancelling my PLEX PASS so I will not be charged again, I would be most appreciative.

I’ve decided that your product is not for me.

Thank you,

Steve

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bam!

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https://plex.tv/subscription

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