3-Day"Backup Database" Task Not Producing Anything In Designated Backup Directory

November 11, 2017, 6:58 am

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I set up a directory for Plex Media Server to store database backups to, and it's set to occur every three days. I've now waited a full week, and nothing has been backed up and stored in that directory.

I looked through logs but couldn't find anything related to a backup task. Then again, there were so many different logs to sort through, that it's possible I just wasn't even looking in the right log.

plexmediaserver is running as root, and I can touch anything in that directory, so I know it's not a permissions issue.

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Scheduled backups: com.plexapp.plugins.library.db vs com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db

November 11, 2017, 9:59 am

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Hi all,

I had a database corruption today and was able to fix it using the instructions in the Repair a Corrupt Database page (Whew!). I noticed that this page mentions that should this fail, you can Restore a Database Backed Up via Scheduled Tasks. However, it seems that the database file, com.plexapp.plugins.library.db is not being backed up, but another file, com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db is:

-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex  10369024 Jun 14  2016 com.plexapp.dlna.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex     98304 Jun 14  2016 com.plexapp.dlna.db-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex  10743080 Jun 14  2016 com.plexapp.dlna.db-wal
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex    303104 Sep 18 16:32 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex    303104 Nov  2 02:04 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2017-11-02
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex    303104 Nov  5 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2017-11-05
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex    303104 Nov  8 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2017-11-08
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex    303104 Nov 11 02:02 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-2017-11-11
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex     32768 Nov 11 12:40 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex         0 Nov 11 12:40 com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-wal
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex 275738624 Nov 11 12:40 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex 256305152 Dec  7  2016 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2016-12-07
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex 256273408 Dec 10  2016 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2016-12-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex 256745472 Dec 13  2016 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2016-12-13
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex 257961984 Dec 16  2016 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-2016-12-16
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex 303472640 Nov 11 12:18 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db.original
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex     32768 Nov 11 12:40 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 plex plex    160712 Nov 11 12:40 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-wal

My question is: Is anything wrong here? Can I use com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db to restore my database? Or is my setup broken? This is using plexmediaserver_1.9.6.4429 on Ubuntu 17.04.

Please advise!

Paul

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soap matching

October 17, 2016, 8:01 am

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about to give up trying to rename my complete Dark Shadows collection. Here is a sample of the odd source I am working with, followed by a painful attempt to match a few to actual air season and numbrers.

i'm still getting nothing in Plex

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Plex Encountered An Error

November 11, 2017, 12:13 pm

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Starting about a week ago my Plex server seemed to be having a rough time getting videos streamed to media devices. I left it be assuming it was network related, until a few days ago I noticed that plex would suddenly stop responding after a video played. A good example, if I am watching a Episode of a TV show, when the Episode ends the server stops working, I cannot connect to the WebUI, iOS App, Roku App, or Android App. So I read up on various forums and sites and tried quite a few things and managed to jack up the whole installation. So how I got to where I am:

yum remove plexmediaserver -y
rm -R -f /var/lib/plexmediaserver
Downloaded plex from the Plex.tv site into the /tmp directory
rpm -ivh plexrpmname.rpm
reboot now

I then login to the WebUI at http://mediaserver:32400/web and it presents me with this screen:

When I hit the Got It Button I get to this screen and sit there for 5 minutes give or take

Finally I get to this error page but it doesn't tell me what the error is, just to open a help topic and attach the logs. I am thoroughly lost, I just want my media back at this point. Can anyone help me?

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Not enough bandwidth for any playback of this item. Cannot convert to below minimum bandwidth of 77k

August 27, 2017, 6:29 pm

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I have been getting errors with channel streams on clients not on the local network. It is an IPTV channel.

For example, I could have my android phone with latest Plex app on my local wifi network and stream a live channel feed just fine. Then I could shut off the wifi so it goes to mobile data aka remote client viewing and I keep getting this error. But it is only on channel live streaming, watching movies and shows work fine. I have tried changing the "Internet upload speed" to 0 or clearing the field on the "Server > Remote Access" page, I have tried checking and unchecking "Direct Play/Direct Stream" and other boxes on the "Web > Player" page. No dice. I have tried changing the remote stream qualities both on the "Server" and the actual clients to "Original" and still didn't fix it.

Any help is appreciated.

Plex Media Server log attached.

Few lines from log:

Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.048 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: analyzing media item -1
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.048 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: Box Nation: Direct Play is disabled
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.048 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: Box Nation: no direct play video profile exists for hls/mpegts/h264
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: Box Nation: no direct play video profile exists for hls/mpegts/h264/aac
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: Box Nation: Direct Streaming is disabled, so video stream will be transcoded
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: Box Nation: no remuxable profile found, so video stream will be transcoded
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - Clipped max bitrate to 0Kbps based on client-requested limit
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: Box Nation: Audio Direct Streaming is disabled, so video's audio stream will be transcoded
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - MDE: Box Nation: selected media 0 / -1
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Could not fit playback within bandwidth limit of 200000kbps
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] ERROR - get - invalid ratingKey value: http://my-iptv-provider.site:8000/box-nation/index.m3u8
Aug 27, 2017 21:08:12.049 [0x7f75657ff700] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Reached Decision id=-1 codes=(MDE=3001,Cannot direct play this item. Required bandwidth is not known and only kbps is available. General=2000,Neither direct play nor conversion is available. Direct Play=3000,App cannot direct play this item. No direct play video profile exists for protocol hls, with container mpegts, and video codec h264. Transcode=4004,Not enough bandwidth for any playback of this item. Cannot convert to below minimum bandwidth of 77kbps.)

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Plex Media Server Not Seeing External Hard Drive

June 26, 2013, 9:20 pm

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I am running Plex Media Server 0.9.8.1 on Ubuntu 12.04. I have my movies on the local hard drive and tv shows on an external drive. The MS sees the movies on the local drive just fine and they all show up in the library. I am not able to see any of the tv shows on the external drive. Any ideas on how to add these or why they may not be appearing?

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Plex on Ubuntu with pfSense router can't connect directly

November 11, 2017, 8:44 pm

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I am running Plex on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and I have a mini-pc router running pfSense 2.4.1 Community Edition.

It seems to only be able to connect in "Indirect" mode when I use the "https://app.plex.tv/desktop" URL. When I use the URL for the local network machine (http://plex.local:32400/web/index.html#) it says it is "Nearby".

When I go to the Server > Remote Access page in Settings, it shows green. That the server is accessible. Any ideas what is causing this? I would like to be able to use it while away from home.

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Hardware Transcoding on Server with IPMI Video

October 6, 2017, 9:48 pm

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I have an Intel E3-1275 v6 CPU running on an ASRock E3C236D2I motherboard. The CPU supports Quicksync and as far as I can tell should work with hardware transcoding. The motherboard has IPMI which includes an onboard video card that drives a VGA header. This is the only video connector on the motherboard.

Is it possible for me to use hardware transcoding with my setup? I can't seem to make it work. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 with PMS 1.9.3.4290.

Link to CPU: https://ark.intel.com/products/97478/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1275-v6-8M-Cache-3_80-GHz
Link to Motherboard: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C236D2I

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Plex Media Scanner returning nothing on "--list"

April 30, 2016, 11:36 pm

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My plex is working normally with a tv section, and a movies section etc.

However, on running "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner --list" - it returns nothing, and doesn't show my various sections; however the plex server proper still sees / serves content properly.

I've recently changed the 'PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER' account that the plex server runs under in /etc/default/plexmediaserver - would that be related?

How can i fix this (or debug it), so that i can manually update libraries when required? The log (cat '/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex\ Media\ Scanner.log') does not show any errors that i can see, relating to having zero sections?

thank you

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DLNA Server Requires Plex Service Restart After Boot

October 24, 2017, 5:44 pm

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I recently installed Plex (1.9.4.4325) on Linux Mint 18 and configured it according to this article

Everything works fine except for DLNA. When I boot up, DLNA does not work. Only after I manually issue a
sudo service plexmediaserver restart
does DLNA start working.

When DLNA is not working, no DLNA client can find/discover or connect to Plex. I have several clients that I use to test (PS3, Android apps, etc.)

I haven't found anything in the log files that would suggest why DLNA is not running properly.
DLNA appears to start up correctly, according to the log files:
Oct 24, 2017 17:09:54.466 [0x7f94acfff700] DEBUG - Plex DLNA Server starting. Oct 24, 2017 17:09:54.466 [0x7f94acfff700] DEBUG - Job running: '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex DLNA Server'

But the log files say the same thing no matter if it's right after a system start or after a manual service restart.
I don't see any relevant errors in the log files that would suggest what is happening.

When DLNA is not working, I get the same result from calling this as when DLNA is working:
sudo service plexmediaserver status

It always says it's active...so, nothing odd there.

Any ideas?

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Login in local server

November 3, 2017, 5:40 am

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Hi there,

im am using Plex on OpenMediaVault in my local Network. The option "access to the server from anywhere" ("Aktivieren um von überall auf deinen Server zugreifen zu können.") is deactivated. But for securing the access to the server with a password, i created a Plex-Account.

Since a few weeks, when logging in at the server, i get redirected from my local "192...." server address to "https://app.plex.tv/auth/#!..."
This is pretty annoying.
1. The Plex-Account is only for restricting access in the local network. Remote access is done via VPN.
2. There is no login possible, without a internet connection.
3. There is absolutely no need for using any authentication server, except my own instance of plex. I like to keep my data (all of it) local.

So, is there a way, to turn of this "feature" and regulate access to the server via username and password local?

Thanks in advance!
Greetings, Alex

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Plex Server missing

November 12, 2017, 9:53 am

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Today I rebooted my Ubuntu server that has been running my Plex Media server for several years and now PMS is not available. I go to the same address I have been using for years, http://10.0.0.67:32400/web/index.html# and it is stuck in "Looking for servers". When I go to Settings I dont have a Server "tab".

If I go to plex.tv, my server is also missing there. I have rebooted the server several times and stopped and restarted the plexmediaserver and still I cant see my server.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Plex Media Server Thecus Module

September 1, 2012, 4:09 am

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Plex For x86 & x64 Thecus NAS series

if You are looking for the Thecus Module for Plex Media Server (always updated to last version)

Find all necessary link for download on Thecus Forum :

Link to Thecus Module Package

for information

x86 version is based on Synology Package
x64 version is based on Ubuntu x64 Package

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[Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS] PMS gets unresponsive, needs a server restart.

September 24, 2017, 12:08 pm

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Version: Plex Media Server v1.9.1.4272-b207937f1

The problem occurs randomly when the server is being used, PMS stops responding (the webpage doesn't load). Doing a sudo service plexmediaserver restart won't work and the command usually hangs. The only way to make it come alive is to restart the server.

Logs attached.

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Plex Transcoder Using 30% CPU - Nobody Watching Anything

October 31, 2017, 2:03 pm

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Noticed this the last couple of days. I was watching something last night, which I paused to allow me to watch the rest tonight. It's now 12 hours since I paused that and the Plex Transcoder is still showing as using up to 30% CPU on my system:

Why. What is it transcoding. There's nothing in the directory created in /tmp a couple of days ago when I started to watch:

[root@Nethserver p3scan]# ls -al /tmp/pms-2cb1c6f1-d9a0-4f47-a2f9-6736580ba386/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 plex@BogoLinux.net domain users@BogoLinux.net    6 Oct 28 13:10 .
drwxrwxrwt. 15 root               root                       4096 Oct 31 13:14 ..
[root@Nethserver p3scan]#

Cheers.

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"Fix Incorrect Match" not working

January 24, 2017, 11:56 am

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Hi,

Since the last update the "Fix Incorrect Match" function does not work anymore. Here what i do:
1. For example i choose the movie "Snowden", which was uploaded to Plex server recently:

From the left menu i choose the "Match" option:
As the new poput window uppears, it just give this picture. The software not even tries for searching, no delay, just drops the window. I marked with red that sign. Normally (before the update) it was searching automatically for content and gives a result list. Now, no search, nothing:
Than i try to search manually, click on "Search options", fill whatever needed, and click on "Search":
Again no delay, no searching, it returns inmediately to the picture shown in point 3.

What is the problem? What should i check, or set?

Thanks,

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Why does plex use sh -c in the systemd service script?

November 8, 2017, 11:53 am

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I was noticing when reviewing my systemd script, I could just move the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to an environment variable and target the plex media server binary directly. Makes htop look a bit more tidy as well. So was wondering, why does the stock service script use the inline env variable when starting up the script using sh -c? Am I going to run into some unknown issues with the change I made?

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Plex Server re-adding hundreds of movies that have been untouched in my library for months

November 13, 2017, 5:14 pm

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When I brought up Plex today, I noticed 283 out of my 1413 movies show as added today.

Frustratingly, it's replaced much of the poster art with hideous selections cluttered with tiny print or foreign titles or both.

The files haven't been moved or renamed. The server hasn't been restarted for days. The watched statuses are fine.

How do I go about figuring out what caused this?

Is there a way to revert these to the previous metadata? I have a backup of the "Application Support/Plex Media Server" directory - it's several months old but most of these movies were added long before that.

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Unclaimed Media Server on Boot

November 13, 2017, 6:42 pm

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Hi, I recently had to rebuild my Plex system and after getting everything reinstalled, every time it reboots, I have to reclaim the server. I've searched through postings and had no luck with a couple of different suggestions. I'm hoping someone can help provide a solution. I'm running the latest version of Plex on Ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks!

--Joshua

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