New to plex and I am getting nowhere with the PMS on my RPI . This is what I am Getting and dont know how to proceed. Any help is really appreciated.
Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
Unfortunately, that bit of systemctl output doesn’t show the reason for the failure. Can you run the following and attach the resulting log (you may have to zip it)? journalctl -x -n25 --no-pager -u plexmediaserver | tee plex_journal.log
This will write the last 25 journalctl entries from the Plex service to a file named “plex_journal.log.” It should have some more detail about the nature of the failure.
Also:
What OS do you run on your Pi? And is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
How did you install Plex Media Server, by adding the repo and apt install ...'ing it, or by downloading the .deb and installing it via dpkg? If the latter, which file did you download?
Have you made any customizations to the service, e.g. running as a user other than plex?
What is the output of ls -al /var/lib/plexmediaserver?
Sorry for beeing unclear.
I did install Raspian lite, and followed a guide like a true Noob at pimylifeup
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Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1037]: [10B blob data]
Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1037]: [10B blob data]
Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1037]: [10B blob data]
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Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1037]: [70B blob data]
Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 974 and the job result is done.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished with a failure.
--
-- The job identifier is 974 and the job result is failed.
Output of ls -al /var/lib/plexmediaserver:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Mar 23 09:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Mar 23 09:40 …
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Mar 23 09:40 Library
That didn’t capture nearly as much history as I’d hoped. Can you run the command again, with more lines logged: journalctl -x -n100 --no-pager -u plexmediaserver | tee plex_journal.log
Hopefully that will gather a bit more history and show the error.
It looks like your Plex data directory is owned by user pi. That being the case, Plex Media Server must run as pi as well. Did you configure it to do so? What is the output of the following command? sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver (press Ctrl-X to exit the editor)
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Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1037]: [10B blob data]
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Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 23 15:32:41 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 974 and the job result is done.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 23 15:32:46 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished with a failure.
--
-- The job identifier is 974 and the job result is failed.
sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver gives me this:
[Service]
User=pi # Run as user pi...
Group=pi # ... and group pi
UMask=0002 # Set file creation mask; new files will be created as 0775
The service override configuration (setting user and group to pi) looks correct to my eyes. The journalctl output still isn’t showing much useful information.
What version of Plex Media Server are you trying to run? There was very recent issue with ARM7 releases which prevented startup due to a failed library dependency. It may be that you’re running into that issue here. It was supposed to be corrected in the most recent Plex Pass beta, released today (and only affected the previous Plex Pass beta version as far as I know).
Finally, try starting the service again and then run systemctl status plexmediaserver and provide the output. Perhaps that will provide some additional information.
No, I think .4163 was fine (.4200 was problematic).
Try this: Remove the current installation with sudo apt remove plexmediasever. Then, re-download version .4163 from the website. Before doing so, run the following command: uname -m
If the output is “arm7l” download the ARMv7 version from the website; if the output is “aarch64” or “armv8” or similar, download the ARMv8 version. Then, install the newly-downloaded file via dpkg --install filename.deb. Grab the information output from the installer and provide that here, along with the output of systemctl status plexmediaserver.
