Hello, I'm looking for some support with installing plex media server on an Odroid HC1 running the non-desktop stable release of Armbian Bionic.
I first used armbian-config to select and install 'plex' but the service didn't start. I then removed the installed 'plexmediaserver-installer' and any created 'plexmediaserver' files/directories & reinstalled manually as shown below:
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bitcoin/bitcoin/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic InRelease
Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Hit:5 http://apt.armbian.com bionic InRelease
Hit:6 http://dev2day.de/pms stretch InRelease
Get:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Fetched 247 kB in 2s (145 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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All packages are up to date.
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo apt install plexmediaserver-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
plexmediaserver-installer
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After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver-installer.
(Reading database ... 51400 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver-installer_1.13.5.5332-21ab172de-1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking plexmediaserver-installer (1.13.5.5332-21ab172de-1) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver-installer (1.13.5.5332-21ab172de-1) ...
Adding user plex to group video
Downloading readynas package ...
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Extracting readynas.deb ...
rm: cannot remove '/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d/override.conf': No such file or directory
Synchronizing state of plexmediaserver.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable plexmediaserver
Job for plexmediaserver.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status plexmediaserver.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.3) ...
The service status was as follows:
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver.service
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-09-16 10:17:40 BST; 23s ago
Process: 2723 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p
Sep 16 10:17:40 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 16 10:17:40 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Sep 16 10:17:40 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.
Sep 16 10:17:40 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 16 10:17:40 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 16 10:17:40 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
And the corresponding log made it quite obvious what was initially wrong:
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo journalctl -xe | grep -i plex
Sep 16 09:56:39 odroidxu4 systemd-udevd[312]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
Sep 16 09:56:39 odroidxu4 systemd-udevd[314]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
Sep 16 09:56:49 odroidxu4 systemd-udevd[1199]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
Sep 16 10:16:48 odroidxu4 sudo[2283]: ahaslam : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/ahaslam ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt install plexmediaserver-installer
Sep 16 10:16:51 odroidxu4 gpasswd[2317]: user plex added by root to group video
Sep 16 10:17:20 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server for Linux...
-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun start-up
-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun starting up.
Sep 16 10:17:20 odroidxu4 sh[2685]: /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/plexmediaserver': Permission denied
Sep 16 10:17:20 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 16 10:17:20 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 16 10:17:20 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
To address the permissions issue:
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/plexmediaserver
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo chown -R plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/lib/plexmediaserver
Now the service status shows:
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-09-16 10:59:33 BST; 50min ago
Process: 1317 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server" (code=exited, status=134)
Process: 1315 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: 1317 (code=exited, status=134)
Sep 16 10:59:33 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 16 10:59:33 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Sep 16 10:59:33 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.
Sep 16 10:59:33 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 16 10:59:33 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 16 10:59:33 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
And the log shows:
ahaslam@odroidxu4:~$ sudo journalctl -xe | grep -i plex
Sep 16 10:59:03 odroidxu4 systemd-udevd[336]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
Sep 16 10:59:03 odroidxu4 systemd-udevd[322]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
Sep 16 10:59:14 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server for Linux...
-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun start-up
-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun starting up.
Sep 16 10:59:14 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server for Linux.
-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished start-up
-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished starting up.
Sep 16 10:59:15 odroidxu4 systemd-udevd[1204]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
Sep 16 10:59:17 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=134/n/a
Sep 16 10:59:17 odroidxu4 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
I have no idea what an exit code of 134 means, but I have found that my problem would not appear unique: https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-wont-start-after-server-update/304604
While I have also posted in that thread, I am not certain that it is necessarily a Plex issue, as the same version is running without issue on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Jessie.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to replace my Raspberry Pi with the Odroid HC1 and this is the last thing in my way.
