steven6282
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Hello all,
I recently set up a new FreeNAS server and put version 11.2 Beta3 on it. I set up a Plex jail through the plugins install and am having a problem with getting it to download metadata.
I saw this thread:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/plex-no-metadata-11-2beta3-iocage-jail.69907/
Which sounded like the same problem, however the solution stated there is not the problem I'm having. On that thread it was stated that they had tried to mount a Media folder in the Plex Server directory which caused write permission problems. I have not done this as my mounts are done under /mnt/. The plex user has full ownership and writing permissions to the Media folder that the other user had issues with.
My Plex jail can ping google, so network access seems fine. But it simply will not download any meta data. If I go to a video file and try to manually match it, it is not even able to contact the movie database search in order to do a match.
I looked at the plex logs and the only error message is about failing to determine system local and defaulting to en-US which is perfectly fine.
I also have a problem that the video won't even play. I'm not sure why on this. I again can't find anything in the logs showing errors. It starts up a transcoder process (even though it shouldn't need to transcode the videos I'm testing), and then that process just stops after a while, nothing in the logs as to why that I can find.
I've tried reinstalling the plugin multiple times, same results every time.
I set up a VM and put Plex Media Server on it, and it works fine. Seems like overkill and a waste of resources to run Plex in a VM instead of a simple jail though.
Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong here?
EDIT:
As a side note, although I might have to make a different post for this. Now after messing around with the VMs and such apparently something is screwed up because I can't even install a plex plugin again. It was coming up with an error message about SystemExec start or something like that, I should've screenshotted it but I didn't. Restarted the entire server, now in the middle of trying to install a plex plugin, or when I start / stop the VM it logs me out of the FreeNAS admin page. So the jail doesn't get fully set up or something. When I log back in, it's not started, if I manually start it, it logs me out again. Log back in and it's started, but plex isn't running on it.
I recently set up a new FreeNAS server and put version 11.2 Beta3 on it. I set up a Plex jail through the plugins install and am having a problem with getting it to download metadata.
I saw this thread:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/plex-no-metadata-11-2beta3-iocage-jail.69907/
Which sounded like the same problem, however the solution stated there is not the problem I'm having. On that thread it was stated that they had tried to mount a Media folder in the Plex Server directory which caused write permission problems. I have not done this as my mounts are done under /mnt/. The plex user has full ownership and writing permissions to the Media folder that the other user had issues with.
My Plex jail can ping google, so network access seems fine. But it simply will not download any meta data. If I go to a video file and try to manually match it, it is not even able to contact the movie database search in order to do a match.
I looked at the plex logs and the only error message is about failing to determine system local and defaulting to en-US which is perfectly fine.
I also have a problem that the video won't even play. I'm not sure why on this. I again can't find anything in the logs showing errors. It starts up a transcoder process (even though it shouldn't need to transcode the videos I'm testing), and then that process just stops after a while, nothing in the logs as to why that I can find.
I've tried reinstalling the plugin multiple times, same results every time.
I set up a VM and put Plex Media Server on it, and it works fine. Seems like overkill and a waste of resources to run Plex in a VM instead of a simple jail though.
Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong here?
EDIT:
As a side note, although I might have to make a different post for this. Now after messing around with the VMs and such apparently something is screwed up because I can't even install a plex plugin again. It was coming up with an error message about SystemExec start or something like that, I should've screenshotted it but I didn't. Restarted the entire server, now in the middle of trying to install a plex plugin, or when I start / stop the VM it logs me out of the FreeNAS admin page. So the jail doesn't get fully set up or something. When I log back in, it's not started, if I manually start it, it logs me out again. Log back in and it's started, but plex isn't running on it.
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