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Asked: 2016-12-12 14:27:28 +0800 CST

Unable to start PlexMediaserver service

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My plexmediaserver.service looks as per following.

    [Unit]
    Description=Plex Media Server for Linux
    After=network.target

    [Service]
    Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/        Library/Application Support"
    Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver
    Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
    Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR=/tmp
    Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver
    ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}"'
    ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Server'
    Type=simple
    User=plex
    Group=plex
    Restart=on-failure
    RestartSec=5
    StartLimitInterval=60s
    StartLimitBurst=3

    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

and error i get is as per following

    ● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
       Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
       Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-12-11 17:15:21 EST; 6min ago
      Process: 4417 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=217/USER)
     Main PID: 3588 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

    Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
    Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.
    Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
    Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
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3 Answers

  1. By doing bit more of research, I could find fix. By executing below 3 commands, it worked.

        sudo mkdir /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library
    chmod 777 -R /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library
    service plexmediaserver restart
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  2. Assuming you already have user plex and group plex in that os.

    Then you can just use sudo chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver to change the ownership of plexmediaserver and its sub directories.

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  3. User=plex
Group=plex
    Process: 4417 ExecStartPre= … (code=exited, status=217/USER)

    So create the missing user account, then.

    Environment="…=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/        Library/Application Support"

    And when you copy and paste things, check them.

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