I recently replaced my boot drive and started with a fresh install of Ubuntu. I installed docker and created the plex media server via docker-compose. The media server cannot find my media files when selecting from the web browser, but my directory mapping into the container is working and the folder permissions look right to me. Doing more digging, it looks like there’s an orphaned server process somewhere. I’ve tried restarting the computer and killing the process directly but neither have solved the problem. Any ideas for where I’m going wrong here and how to fix it?
Plex isn’t compatible with Ubuntu, Ubuntu does some weird stuff with how it handles many different elements. If you are using a dedicated host, pick a different distro.
Ubuntu should do just fine.
It looks though that there’s something weird with how your PMS instance in the container is running. It seems to run as user kevin, hence not seeing/using the plex user to which the media in /data belongs.
