PMS on raspberry pi 3B crashed and will not restart

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I was having issues loading my server on my playback device. Took a look at the raspberry pi and it said it failed. Restarted the pi, still having the same issues. Usually I can get it to fix itself after a few restarts and using the command systemctl daemon-reload. But I am having luck this time. Here is what I am seeing:

pi@RasPlex:~ $ sudo service plexmediaserver status
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d
           └─override.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-08-03 11:02:04 JST; 3min 5s
  Process: 628 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APP

Aug 03 11:01:59 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed
Aug 03 11:01:59 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off ti
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repea
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result
Warning: plexmediaserver.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload'

After seeing the last line, I ran the command “systemctl daemon-reload”. Had no issues with the command. Checked the status again:

pi@RasPlex:~ $ sudo service plexmediaserver status
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d
           └─override.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-08-03 11:02:04 JST; 3min 29

Aug 03 11:01:59 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed
Aug 03 11:01:59 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off ti
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repea
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed
Aug 03 11:02:04 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result
Aug 03 11:05:32 RasPlex systemd[1]: [/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service

I know in the past I’ve had success after the systemctl daemon-reload command, i would run the “systemctl start plexmediaserver” command. After I was prompted for my password I got this:

==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
Job for plexmediaserver.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status plexmediaserver.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Then I typed in the command it told me to systemctl status plexmediaserver.service
and got this:

pi@RasPlex:~ $ systemctl status plexmediaserver.service
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d
           └─override.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-08-03 11:06:25 JST; 9min ago
  Process: 1572 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=

Aug 03 11:06:20 RasPlex systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Aug 03 11:06:20 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 03 11:06:20 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 03 11:06:25 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 03 11:06:25 RasPlex systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.
Aug 03 11:06:25 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 03 11:06:25 RasPlex systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Aug 03 11:06:25 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 03 11:06:25 RasPlex systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I am at a complete loss. Can anyone help?

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That all sounds very strange. You should not be required to issue systemctl daemon-reload at all or to restart your Pi several times to get PMS running. Please tell me about the installation instructions you have used.

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I was the same one that posted the topic about having to use systemctl daemon-reload everytime i restart my pi. I made this server a while ago and used a mixture of tutorials, and they included a symlink and all kinds of things. In my other post i mentioned how i really just want to start with a fresh raspbian image and start from scratch but am too afraid to cause i dont know my current mount points and dont want to have to reconfigure everything. and no idea how to get my metadata to download onto my harddrive instead of the SD card besides the symlink i was talking about,.

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