I have/had PMS installed on my DS710+ and it was working fine until last night. I was able to access my media through my Ipad using the Plex app and it played the files and loaded all media without a problem. WHen I tried to access my through the media server option on my WDTV l could connect to PMS but when I tried to access my content there was nothing listed in the folder. I Then decided to stop and restart PMS on my diskstation but it failed to restart and I received the error message, "Failed to run the package service" I have also tried deleting and reinstalling PMS and rebooting the diskstation. My knowledge in these things aren't that great so any help would be appreciated.
Do you guys have any idea what the solution might be if the above thing isn´t working? Tried it several times now and no luck.
I'm using the spk from the Plex site.
It was working before but I had to do a fresh install of DSM including all it's packages.
DS210j
DSM 5.0-4458
What happens if you install the package, ignore the errors, reboot your Synology and then try and start PMS?
NOTE: Looking into the issue. Not sure what the actual error is, have yet to find the smoking gun, but it seems to be something in conjunction with DSM 5.0 4458.
What happens if you install the package, ignore the errors, reboot your Synology and then try and start PMS?
NOTE: Looking into the issue. Not sure what the actual error is, have yet to find the smoking gun, but it seems to be something in conjunction with DSM 5.0 4458.
- Mark
I still got the message can't run service. I was trying to do this trick. I'm getting to the var/packages directory but can't get into the Plex Media Server directory. Message: can't CD to Plex. Can you help me out here?
I still got the message can't run service. I was trying to do this trick. I'm getting to the var/packages directory but can't get into the Plex Media Server directory. Message: can't CD to Plex. Can you help me out here?
Got it! Because of the spaces in the name of the directory I was unable to open it. Putting the directory name between " (so cd "Plex Media Server" did the trick.
Or cd "Plex and then hit the tab key so it automatically fills in the folder name.
Unfortunately the trick from the other post didn't work. I needed to add an * and , and these where already in place. :(
Do you have any other suggestions?
What I meant above is what is in the other post I already added to he synology packages. So my question is: what are permissions on /volume1/Plex:
ls -al /volume1/
And you could try and run these commands and reboot after that:
See picture below for permissions on the Plex folder. Please note that I made the Plex folder myself in the Shared Folder section of DSM since during install Plex isn't making one itself. It only makes a plex user.
I also ran the commands you suggest + a reboot.
Not exactly sure what did the trick, but I got it running now!
See picture below for permissions on the Plex folder. Please note that I made the Plex folder myself in the Shared Folder section of DSM since during install Plex isn't making one itself. It only makes a plex user.
I also ran the commands you suggest + a reboot.
Not exactly sure what did the trick, but I got it running now!
Thanks again Mark! Really appreciate it!
That folder should be created on install of PMS. But I have seen cases where synoshare command has to be executed post install to make it actually work. And thanks for your info it gave me yet another idea of something to test to see if these errors can be overcome.
Here's what I did:
1- uninstalled PLEX via the Package Center in Diskstation Manager (DSM).
2- removed user "plex" from Control Panel-User.
3- removed shared folder "Plex" from Control Panel-Shared Folder.
4- rebooted Diskstation.
5- Reinstalled PLEX via the Package Center.
