Hi, yesterday I wanted to update plex to the version “plexmediaserver_1.23.5.4801-bc4dd58bb_amd64.deb”, the installation always breaks off or gets stuck.
apt install plexmediaserver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Recommended packages:
beignet-opencl-icd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
plexmediaserver
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 81.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 222 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public/main amd64 plexmediaserver amd64 1.23.4.4805-186bae04e [81.4 MB]
Fetched 81.4 MB in 1s (64.5 MB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
(Reading database ... 197678 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver_1.23.4.4805-186bae04e_amd64.deb ...
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation.
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation complete.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.23.4.4805-186bae04e) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.23.4.4805-186bae04e) ...
Configuration file '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** plexmediaserver.list (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? n
PlexMediaServer install: PlexMediaServer-1.23.4.4805-186bae04e - Installation starting.
PlexMediaServer install:
PlexMediaServer install: Now installing based on:
PlexMediaServer install: Installation Type: New
PlexMediaServer install: Process Control: systemd
PlexMediaServer install: Plex User: plex
PlexMediaServer install: Plex Group: plex
PlexMediaServer install: Video Group: video
PlexMediaServer install: Metadata Dir: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support
PlexMediaServer install: Temp Directory: /tmp
PlexMediaServer install: Lang Encoding: en_US.UTF-8
PlexMediaServer install: Intel i915 Hardware: Not found
PlexMediaServer install: Nvidia GPU card: Not Found
PlexMediaServer install:
PlexMediaServer install: Completing final configuration.
Progress: [ 60%] [############################################################################################################################################################........................................................................................................]
I already completely deleted plex from my Ubuntu system and tried it again.
to get, but the same upper problem always comes up.
OS is Ubuntu Hirsute
could now install plex via “snap” but plex does not start. Since plex does not create the directory under /var/lib/ …
root@tokushu /home # service plexmediaserver status
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-07-19 10:15:15 CEST; 22min ago
Jul 19 10:15:15 tokushu.anime-mitsuketa.tokyo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Jul 19 10:15:15 tokushu.anime-mitsuketa.tokyo systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Jul 19 10:15:15 tokushu.anime-mitsuketa.tokyo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 19 10:15:15 tokushu.anime-mitsuketa.tokyo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 19 10:15:15 tokushu.anime-mitsuketa.tokyo systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
root@tokushu /home # service plexmediaserver start
Job for plexmediaserver.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status plexmediaserver.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
root@tokushu /home # service plexmediaserver status
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-07-19 10:38:21 CEST; 2s ago
Process: 1170235 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
