Plex not starting automatically on Ubuntu

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For some reason Plex crashed this morning which has been the first time this happened. On inspection I discovered that my /var partition was full, which was strange. After a bit of research I discovered that the video thumbnails was probably the culprit, however I couldn’t get onto the server to change this setting then optimise the database. This lead to me needing to uninstall PMS then reinstall it. This completed with a few errors, however when I type in “start_pms” the server starts fine. The only issue is that I have to type that into terminal in order to get it to start as it seems the errors that occurred were that it didn’t install the services for some reason.

I just need to know if there is anyway that I can create these myself.

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I would try reinstalling until you have an error-free install because this might not be the only thing that’s wrong.

In /etc/systemd/system/ create a file called plexmediaserver.service. In that file add

[Unit]
Description=Plex Media Server for Linux
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment=“PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support”
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR=/tmp
Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver
Environment=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c ‘/usr/bin/test -d “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” || /bin/mkdir -p “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}”’
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c ‘/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Server’
Type=simple
User=plex
Group=plex
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
.
run sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver
check that there are no errors and it’s still running with sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver
Then make it run on restart sudo systemctl enable plexmediaserver

3

Cheers dude, I’ll give it a shot later. Had the parents down all weekend so had no chance to sort it.

4

Sorted. This wouldn’t work unfortunately, so I had to reinstall Plex again.