Server Version#: plexmediaserver_1.22.0.4163-d8c4875dd_i386
Player Version#: NA
Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone can help. about a week ago my PMS just stopped turning up in any player. I rooted around a bit, checked to see if it was running, if it needed updating etc. When I ran it would tell me that it failed to start. So I thought as all my media is safe, maybe best thing to do is to uninstall completely and fresh install.
I ran the command <dpkg -r plexmediaserver>
Then removed the directory </var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/“Application Support”/“Plex Media Server”/>
restart server, go make a cup of tea whilst it reboots, reinstall with the latest .deb
Installation went fine, run to be greeted with this log.
<rowanook@Kaiju:~ systemctl status plexmediaserver.service
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-03-17 19:00:41 GMT; 30s ago
Process: 7706 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-releas
Process: 7704 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}”
Main PID: 7706 (code=exited, status=127)
Mar 17 19:00:36 Kaiju systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/
Mar 17 19:00:36 Kaiju systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Mar 17 19:00:41 Kaiju systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restar
Mar 17 19:00:41 Kaiju systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at
Mar 17 19:00:41 Kaiju systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Mar 17 19:00:41 Kaiju systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 17 19:00:41 Kaiju systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Mar 17 19:00:41 Kaiju systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
Any ideas on how to tackle this and get my new PMS up and running please.
If you do that, doesn’t that exclude “execute” from everyone but the owner? If so, and your user running Plex is not the same as the owner of the entire PMS folder, it would not allow execution.
What is the user running Plex and what is the owner of the plexmediaserver folder?
That should reassign the owner and group to plex:plex for the folder and everything in it. Assuming your PMS is being run by the user plex, you should be all set.
sorry not sure what that means. do you have an idea how to get it running? I’ve not created a service override config, as I have no idea what one is. Sorry.
thanks for help, i’ve created the override config. i’ve tried using my main user, as well as changing it to plex plex. neither of which seem to work. after reloading and restarting systemctl status is still relativly similar: