Plex Media server under /media does not work as expected

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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This "upgrade " totally hosed my server. I have been running PLEX for years and have upgraded religiously with rare issue.

I really did not want want to troubleshoot for the rest of the night. Can anyone provide a link for the previous .deb server file?

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Upgrade to 1.15.2.793-782228f99 breaks plex -- Prevents from Starting
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I am just trying to get the server to read from my custom location.

/media/synthox/Plex Omega/plexdata/Plex Media Server

synthox:synthox

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It wasn’t the upgrade.
If your ‘plexdata/Plex Media Server’ directory’ is where Plex’s metadata lives, This is your root cause because it’s under /media.

Please detail how you have this configured?

where is PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR ?
is it on an external disk as the pathname implies?
If so, is that external disk mounted via /etc/fstab?

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That directory was configured as root.

The drive is indeed mounted.

The drive is external. I have numerous external and internal drives on a server that run PLEX exclusively.

I have upgraded every single release in the same fashion. I kill the service, “sudo service plexmediaserver stop”, uninstall “sudo apt remove plexmediaserver”, install the new one “sudo dpkg -i filename.deb”. It always comes up fine reads my previous configuration and stays running 24/7. After this upgrade the server starts but does read from that location. It behaves as a fresh install. That is not the end of the world but I have multiple users, along with myself that would like to pick up where we left off.

Why would this update behave differently? It was running perfectly.

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i’m sorry, a VERY rough day.

  1. Check for **/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service
  2. If you have it, you are also effected due to a Ubuntu error early in Ubuntu 16.
  3. If you have not edited (customized) that file in any way
    a. delete it
    b. sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    c. systemctl start plexmediaserver
  4. if you have, we will need create a proper /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d/override.conf for you.

All of this is because as of 1.15.0 LD_LIBRARY_PATH was changed. 1.14.1 works for this reason

We only need get you back on the official release and in sync again with /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service and all will return to normal.

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