Plex Media Server (Latest) fails on Centos 7

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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if all you really did was move the metadata then you have a permissions problem from / down to where it now resides.

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Show me your /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d/override.conf file.

It’s probably a syntax error in how you specified the new location

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I guess, I will have to blow everytthing away and start over. That still doesn’t make sense. It has the same permissions it had when I first set it up over a year ago and had been functioning since then until 4 days ago.

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Read my last reply please before blowing it away.

You made a change. Please show it to me. Sometimes we’re too close to something to see the obvious.

What’s the current contents of the service file you’re using (/etc) and what’s its path ?

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/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service

and I do not have an /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.d/ … let alone an override.conf

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that’s the startup flag. Systemd uses that symlink to tell it to start Plex. it serves no other purpose.

Ok… here’s what we do:

  1. Create a real override file
  2. Tell Systemd to use it
  3. Start Plex.

What is the current real path to your metadata? (I don’t want to make any mistakes)

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\home\plex\Library

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Ok… New to Linux? (You use \ and not / :slight_smile: )

Here is the command and text sequence to create the overrride.

# Make sure PMS is stopped
sudo systemctl stop plexmediaserver

# now we will tell it the Library has been relocated.   Do extra work here if you need to
sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver
sudo chown plex:plex /home/plex
sudo chmod 755 /home/plex

# With all work done, tell systemctl PMS has been moved.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Now, the important contents to enter when Editing the override

[Service]
Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/home/plex/Library/Application Support"

With everything done, Start PMS
sudo systemctl start plexmediserver

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It worked for a minute then in seemed to stop.

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grab the full tarball of the logs please and post them .

I want to see what happened

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plex-media-server-logs.tar.gz (902.7 KB)

I just looked myself, looks to be a corrupt dB … so I restored another one … checking status in a bit.

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Looks to be working now after restoring the database.

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