Installing Plex Media Server Plugin brought down FreeNAS Server

[SwisherSweet]

Last night, I attempted to install the Plex Media Sever plugin on my production FreeNAS server. I had done this a few times with my test server with no problems.

However, when the status reached 83%, the server disconnected from the network and would not obey console commands Here's a short summary of that issue from last night:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/lost-connection-to-keyboardless-freenas-server.55390/

I just had to power down and I'm not running scrubs on my pools.

It appears the jail was created, but the Plex Media Sever plugin still shows not installed.

If I wanted to reattempt this process, I assume I would need to delete the jail, and the "jails" dataset for good measure (not used for anything else).

Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions on what I could do to investigate root cause, troubleshoot, and prevent from happening again?

A little more setup information:

• Mac Pro, 2 x 6 Core 3.46Hz Xeons, 64gb ECC RAM
• FreeNAS-9.10.2-U3 (e1497f269)
• 7 x 3TB Toshiba drives in "primary" data pool in raidz2
• 5 x 2TB Seagate drives in "backup1" backup pool (externally attached) in raidz1

Thanks so much.

 

[Jailer]

You'd be better off with a manual install in a jail.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-9-10-jail.19412/

 

[SwisherSweet]

You'd be better off with a manual install in a jail.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...to-install-plex-in-a-freenas-9-10-jail.19412/

Thanks for the reply.

Are you suggesting that the Plex plugin or plugin installation process is in someway defective? If not, why would I be better off going through a manual installation process?

I have very little Unix experience, so I'd be at the mercy of those instructions being 100% step-by-step accurate and hope/prey nothing is different to throw me off.

Thanks.

 

[Jailer]

The manual install is easier to keep up to date. With the plugin you're at the mercy of the plugin maintainer to keep it up to date for you.

 

[JoelN]

I have very little Unix experience, so I'd be at the mercy of those instructions being 100% step-by-step accurate and hope/prey nothing is different to throw me off.

Thanks.

Here is a youtube video describing how to set up plex in a standard (not plugin) jail which may be useful to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tItUA8k3FqA&feature=youtu.be