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Hi all and hi @ChuckPa
I am reasonably confident Linux admin. But am stuck migrating Plex from Mac to Linux.
I have followed the official guide to move PlexMS App Dir to a new system - in my case from a very old but perfectly functioning MacOS Catalina install (with uptodate PMS) to an Ubuntu LXC. The actual media remains on a NAS.
I have copied the Application Data folder over using rsync.
I have opted to leave out the uploaded media folder as this was 90GB.
I have chowned the folder and contents to plex:plex
I have updated the Preferences.xml file with the identifiers from the Mac Install. (I note that this file is very brief compared to the mac PLIST/defaults output, but still, I copied over the identifiers)
After seeing db errors starting plex, I followed another forum post that suggested eliminating all db files except
com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db
com.plexapp.plugins.library.db
I tried ChuckPa’s automatic DBrepair script (cool!) -
and restarted plex - no dice, same error as below:
The systemctrl/journalctl output I get is:
Jul 29 10:00:34 plex systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
Jul 29 10:00:34 plex systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
Jul 29 10:00:35 plex Plex Media Server[154]: Error: Unable to set up server: sqlite3_statement_backend::loadOne: attempt to write a readonly da>
Jul 29 10:00:35 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Jul 29 10:00:35 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 29 10:00:40 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jul 29 10:00:40 plex systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Jul 29 10:00:40 plex systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
Jul 29 10:00:40 plex systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
Jul 29 10:00:40 plex Plex Media Server[350]: Error: Unable to set up server: sqlite3_statement_backend::loadOne: attempt to write a readonly da>
Jul 29 10:00:40 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Jul 29 10:00:40 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 29 10:00:45 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Jul 29 10:00:45 plex systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Jul 29 10:00:45 plex systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
Jul 29 10:00:45 plex systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
Jul 29 10:00:46 plex Plex Media Server[370]: Error: Unable to set up server: sqlite3_statement_backend::loadOne: attempt to write a readonly da>
Jul 29 10:00:46 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Jul 29 10:00:46 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 29 10:00:51 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Jul 29 10:00:51 plex systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Jul 29 10:00:51 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 29 10:00:51 plex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 29 10:00:51 plex systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
I have removed the old folder and let plex start fresh again, and repeated the process - obviously I could just clean slate it, but after 10 years at least of being a lifetime subscriber and accruing a lot of library metadata and shared access, I do not wish to let this go lightly.
Really appreciate it if anyone can help - @ChuckPa , I have seen your replies to others migrating to look for you other posts, but honestly I have not been able to find one that is relevant or surpasses what I have already read and tried.
