Plex fresh install doesnt work

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help me what is wrong with it ?

journalctl -u plexmediaserver
– Logs begin at Sat 2019-01-12 12:53:20 EET, end at Sun 2019-05-19 03:10:31 EEST. –
May 19 03:01:47 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server…
May 19 03:01:47 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
May 19 03:01:47 eugene-lenovo sh[6368]: terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::runtime_error’
May 19 03:01:47 eugene-lenovo sh[6368]: what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
May 19 03:01:49 eugene-lenovo sh[6368]: Aborted (core dumped)
May 19 03:01:49 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=134/n/a
May 19 03:01:49 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server…
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo sh[6519]: terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::runtime_error’
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo sh[6519]: what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo sh[6519]: Aborted (core dumped)
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=134/n/a
May 19 03:01:54 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server…
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo sh[6567]: terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::runtime_error’
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo sh[6567]: what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo sh[6567]: Aborted (core dumped)
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=134/n/a
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
May 19 03:02:04 eugene-lenovo systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.

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Look at the bottom of what you posted.

May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo sh[6567]: terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::runtime_error’
May 19 03:01:59 eugene-lenovo sh[6567]: what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

Your system’s locale is not set.

I will assume you are using Ubuntu / Debian.

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Configure_Locales_in_Ubuntu

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ty for the fast answer. i have installed plex server through the docker container and it works good :slight_smile:

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That’s because docker brings its own locale.

If you fix the locale, you won’t be confined to docker.

The key command you need, after setting the enviornment variables is:

sudo locale-gen

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yes i know a bit about docker :slight_smile:

btw i think that my locale is set

cat /etc/default/locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_NUMERIC=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_NAME=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=uk_UA.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=uk_UA.UTF-8

$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
en_US.utf8
ru_RU.utf8

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Which is the default?

$ cat /etc/default/locale 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
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yep en_US is default

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Somehow your locale files themselves must be missing.

Would you regenerate them?

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale en_US.UTF-8
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ty for your help but im ok with the docker way :slight_smile:

btw i noticed that plex do not want work with the simlinks to the media library ? (at least through docker-compose). it was endless scanning until i set it up with the direct path to the media library

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That’s correct. It want’s real directories or mount points (bind or otherwise).
It does this because of the iNotify service not working through symlinks.
It also can’t travel backwards through a symlink as it goes up and down the directory tree

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