Dtyjlui

Been trying to setup a plex server for the last 2 days. I initially had it up and running, but I rebooted, and now I can't get it start back up.

Background:

• Running 16.04 32bit


• Had installed and set up server once everything was working fine


• Rebooted machine


• Since reboot, have not been able to get server running
  
  
  
  
  • Ran sudo dpkg -r plexmediaserver and sudo dpkg -P plexmediaserver, then reinstalled, but this bares no effect on the error
  
  
  
  


• Also running sonarr and nzbget (I doubt that has any impact on the issue, but you never know)

Ran sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver and output is as follows:

    plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux

    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

    Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-11-20 21:47:11 EST; 44s ago

    Process: 5144 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server" (

    Process: 5140 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${

    Main PID: 5144 (code=exited, status=127)



    Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.

    Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

    Nov 20 21:47:11 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.

    Nov 20 21:47:11 media-server systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.

    Nov 20 21:47:11 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.

    Nov 20 21:47:11 media-server systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.

    Nov 20 21:47:44 media-server systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.

results of journalctl -xe

-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- 

-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished starting up.

-- 

-- The start-up result is done.

Nov 20 21:47:00 media-server sh[5132]: /bin/sh: 1: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: not found

Nov 20 21:47:00 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a

Nov 20 21:47:00 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.

Nov 20 21:47:00 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Nov 20 21:47:04 media-server sudo[5137]:    david : TTY=pts/7 ; PWD=/home/david/Downloads ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl status plexmediaserver

Nov 20 21:47:04 media-server sudo[5137]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.

-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished shutting down

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- 

-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished shutting down.

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server for Linux...

-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- 

-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun starting up.

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server for Linux.

-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished start-up

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- 

-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished starting up.

-- 

-- The start-up result is done.

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server sh[5144]: /bin/sh: 1: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: not found

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.

Nov 20 21:47:05 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Nov 20 21:47:10 media-server sudo[5137]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

Nov 20 21:47:11 media-server systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.

Nov 20 21:47:11 media-server systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux.

-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished shutting down

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

-- 

-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished shutting down.

From the link provided by Michael Bay two steps to solve this:

1. 
   

   Open a terminal and run:

   
   
   

   sudo locale-gen en_us.utf-8   #this is a comment:(or your appropriate locale)
   
   

   
   


2. 
   

   The using nano text editor open the lexmediaserver.service file found in /etc/systemd/system/ and make sure the locale is set:

   
   
   

   Environment=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
   
   

   
   

Source:

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/282507/failed-to-start-plex-media-server
Environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8

i had the same issue when i first installed plex server manually, i did not worked for me too. Went through the forums, everyone recommended to set system locale and lang correctly, which i did while installing the ubuntu server.

i do not have the "correct answer" as i do not know what caused it and how to fix it, but i can tell you the workaround i used to get it working, it might help you as well

i used third party toolkit, i have never experienced a problem with it and IMHO it works good for newbie like me. You can try too, follow:

https://github.com/htpcBeginner/AtoMiC-ToolKit

edit: Give atomic toolkit a try, but by looking at your journalctl -xe results, you may not have the rw access for the path, do

ls -l

on the /usr/lib/plexmediaserver directory, you may not have set correct ownership, try changing owner ship with

sudo chown -R "user:group" <folder_name>

OR in your setup the path has a extra space, believe me that happens