Plex Server won’t start

Server Version#: plexmediaserver-1.25.4.5426
Player Version#:

Sice Centos was hit by RHEL greed I have change my centos to oracle linux.
Everything seems familiar but plex won’t start.

[root@pms ~]# systemctl status plexmediaserver
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /run/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d
└─zzz-lxc-service.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-01-24 13:43:27 CET; 1h 56min ago
Process: 765 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="$(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-release | awk -F= “{print $2}” | tr -d " )" PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_DEVICE=“PC” PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_MODEL="$(u
name -m)" PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_PLATFORM_VERSION="$(grep ^VERSION= /etc/os-release | awk -F= “{print $2}” | tr -d " )" “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server” (code=exited, status=255)
Process: 763 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” || /bin/mkdir -p “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 765 (code=exited, status=255)

Jan 24 13:43:27 pms systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Jan 24 13:43:27 pms systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Jan 24 13:43:27 pms systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Jan 24 13:43:27 pms systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jan 24 13:43:27 pms systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Jan 24 13:43:27 pms systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.

[root@pms ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa)

Which username is PMS running as in zzz-lxc-service.conf ?

Does that username own all of /var/lib/plexmediaserver ?

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  1. The Service is running as plex user in plex group.
  2. I’ve checked the permissions but only in /usr/lib not in /var/lib and there is the problem. This folder belongs to root.

Thank you!!! @ChuckPa

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