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Ayush1325

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[SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

Hello everyone, I am a noob to arch, just installed it like yesterday for the first time. Got most things working and using base kde as the desktop environment. I am trying to setup plex server on my machine. Installed the basic plex server from here. However, I think I am not able to start the plex service as the

systemctl | grep running

does not show it even after enabling and starting it. I probably might not have configured my network during install probably so can anyone help? Also the NetworkManager service is enabled and working if that's related.

Last edited by Ayush1325 (2019-09-25 14:00:16)

Swiggles

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

Please show the output of

journalctl -b
systemctl status plexmediaserver

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

Systemd has very extensive possibilities to find out the reasons why a service might fail, grepping for whether the service appears in some huge list is the last I'd use for that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … sing_units

Ayush1325

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

Please show the output of

journalctl -b
systemctl status plexmediaserver

The first 64  lines of journalctl -b

Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: Linux version 5.3.1-arch1-1-ARCH (builduser@heftig-3999379) (gcc version 9.1.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 21 11:33:49 UTC 2019
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=8cbc2685-548c-455b-b951-9a81bad401cc rw loglevel=3 quiet
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   Intel GenuineIntel
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   AMD AuthenticAMD
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   Hygon HygonGenuine
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   Centaur CentaurHauls
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   zhaoxin   Shanghai  
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]:  576, xstate_sizes[2]:  256
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'compacted' format.
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000009dfffff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009e00000-0x0000000009ffffff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a000000-0x000000000a1fffff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a200000-0x000000000a20afff] ACPI NVS
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a20b000-0x000000000affffff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b000000-0x000000000b01ffff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b020000-0x00000000db633fff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db634000-0x00000000db791fff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db792000-0x00000000db920fff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db921000-0x00000000dbd6afff] ACPI NVS
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dbd6b000-0x00000000dcc24fff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dcc25000-0x00000000dccb5fff] type 20
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dccb6000-0x00000000deffffff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000df000000-0x00000000dfffffff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fd000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000041f37ffff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: efi: EFI v2.70 by American Megatrends
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: efi:  TPMFinalLog=0xdbd1d000  ACPI 2.0=0xdbcb6000  ACPI=0xdbcb6000  SMBIOS=0xdcaea000  SMBIOS 3.0=0xdcae9000  MEMATTR=0xd71b2018  ESRT=0xda08dc18 
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: SMBIOS 3.2.1 present.
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: DMI: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING/X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF, BIOS F31 05/06/2019
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: last_pfn = 0x41f380 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: MTRR default type: uncachable
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   00000-9FFFF write-back
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   A0000-BFFFF write-through
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   C0000-FFFFF write-protect
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: MTRR variable ranges enabled:
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   0 base 000000000000 mask FFFF80000000 write-back
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   1 base 000080000000 mask FFFFC0000000 write-back
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   2 base 0000C0000000 mask FFFFE0000000 write-back
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   3 disabled
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   4 disabled
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   5 disabled
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   6 disabled
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel:   7 disabled
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: TOM2: 0000000420000000 aka 16896M
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB  WC  UC- UC  WB  WP  UC- WT  
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: e820: update [mem 0xe0000000-0xffffffff] usable ==> reserved
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: last_pfn = 0xdf000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: esrt: Reserving ESRT space from 0x00000000da08dc18 to 0x00000000da08dc50.
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: check: Scanning 1 areas for low memory corruption
Sep 23 19:27:28 jarvis kernel: Using GB pages for direct mapping

the output of systemctl status

● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Mon 2019-09-23 19:37:29 IST; 1h 47min ago
 Main PID: 5071 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)

Sep 23 19:37:29 jarvis systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 23 19:37:29 jarvis systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Sep 23 19:37:29 jarvis systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Sep 23 19:37:29 jarvis systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 23 19:37:29 jarvis systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Sep 23 19:37:29 jarvis systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

You should probably read the pinned comment: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plex … ned-687169

Ayush1325

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

Okay, so I found the problem, it has something to do with not having set proper locale. Now it is working. However, I had to add this line to my .zshrc

export LANG=en_IN.UTF-8

because for some reason, even uncommenting the locale from /etc/locale.gen and adding the

LANG=en_IN.UTF-8

to /etc/locale.conf don't seem to set it for the whole system. Any other thing I can do to set the system locale? also tried the

localectl set-locale LANG=en_IN.UTF-8

as given in wiki but doesn't seem to work.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

What is the output of the following

localectl
locate -a
cat /etc/locale.conf

Ayush1325

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

What is the output of the following

localectl
locate -a
cat /etc/locale.conf

For first:

System Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: n/a

Second: And I think u mistyped locale there.

C
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
POSIX

This is after using that line in zshrc.

Third:

LANG=en_IN.UTF-8

Ayush1325

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

Okay, so finally got everything working. Here is the basic stuff I did to fix it.
1. Set proper locale from here. (would make a lot of applications misbehave like plex and zsh temes.)
2. Check if ur desktop environment has a different locale set coz it was overriding my locale.conf which was the reason I had to set it in .zshrc in the beginning.

pontifikas

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get plex-media-server to work

What made you think that this was a locale problem?

Last edited by pontifikas (2019-12-17 22:17:43)