I am unable to install any version of Plex after version 1.18.2.2029-36236cc4c through version 1.19.1.2701-6327e27bf. I have kept copies of all the .deb files for a while and tested. The earliest version which successfully installs in 1.18.0.1944-f2cae8d6b.
That version you are using is newer than the one available through the website. The latest version I can download to test is plexmediaserver_1.19.2.2701-6327e27bf_amd64.deb. When version 1.19.2.2670-40c2bd5e0 is available, I will test and get back to you.
Same issue occuring here. version 1.19.2.2702. Plex doesnt even start up after reboots. Kinda critical issueā¦ I tried looking from Kernel.org and they are saying its not a critical error but it kinda makes harder to use the OS when plex destroys package manager / installer.
that sounds like youāve got a bad OS installation on your hands.
DPKG is in control, not the scripts which it calls. This isnāt the packageās fault. As the package scripting author, Iād have heard about it long ago from the thousands whoāve installed and are using it now without issue.
ChuckPa, is there any way we can get access to version 1.19.2.2670-40c2bd5e0? The latest version available for download through the plex.tv website is 1.19.1.2701-6327e27bf. I donāt know if that .2 version difference matters, but Iād like to try to rule that out.
I just upgraded to 20.04 and I had the same issue. I tracked down the problem to the lircd-uinput virutal input device. I ran
sudo apt remove lirc
and as soon as it was off, dpkg automatically ran and finished installing plexmediaserver. Best of all, my remote control appears to still work. You should be able to reinstall lirc afterwards, but youāll need to remove it every time you update plexmediaserver.
Sorry about that versionā¦ Itās coming through QA now. I have it here because I was verifying a correction to the SYSV-init service. I had a timing error in variable processing which caused problems in certain situations.
Thanks for the heads up, but I donāt appear to have that on my system. So something else is taking up that resource. I donāt know what to do about it but Iām going to wait until ChuckPa has the next version for me to test with before I troubleshoot further.
I donāt know if you saw my fix, but hereās how I figured out what was happening.
I used WinSCP and logged in as root.
Browsed to /sys/device/virtual/input/[name of device causing issues]
I opened the device file that showed the name of what service what causing issues. In my case, it was lircd-uinput. I donāt remember the file name you need to open because Iāve removed lirc from my system, but that should at least point you in the direction of what you need to unplug or temporarily āapt removeā to get plexmediaserver installed again.
Thanks for posting this. I checked the location of the path that is throwing the errors (at least according to the console output). It was ā/sys/devices/virtual/input/input26/ueventā for me.
I looked at the file and it appears to be empty. I ran āfile ueventā and it reported back as empty.
In the directory ā/sys/devices/virtual/input/input26/ā there are files like:
Iām having the same issue but with plexmediaserver (1.19.2.2737-b69929dab). Has anyone found a way to resolve the issue?
System is on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.10.107-perf-g6e46151 aarch64)
I have been able to install fine on Raspberry Pi as a test but failed on Windows 10 Linux and one installed on a mobile device.
Preparing to unpack ā¦/plexmediaserver_1.19.2.2737-b69929dab_arm64.deb ā¦
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation.
PlexMediaServer install: Pre-installation Validation complete.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.19.2.2737-b69929dab) ā¦
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ā¦
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.19.2.2737-b69929dab) ā¦
Configuration file ā/etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.listā
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainerās version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** plexmediaserver.list (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? n
PlexMediaServer install: PlexMediaServer-1.19.2.2737-b69929dab - Installation starting.
PlexMediaServer install:
PlexMediaServer install: Now installing based on:
PlexMediaServer install: Installation Type: New
PlexMediaServer install: Process Control: systemd
PlexMediaServer install: Plex User: plex
PlexMediaServer install: Plex Group: plex
PlexMediaServer install: Video Group: video
PlexMediaServer install: Metadata Dir: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support
PlexMediaServer install: Temp Directory: /tmp
PlexMediaServer install: Lang Encoding: en_US.UTF-8
PlexMediaServer install: Transcoding HW: Not found
PlexMediaServer install:
PlexMediaServer install: Completing final configuration.
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (āconfigure):
installed plexmediaserver package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
plexmediaserver
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
