TheLegendOfMart Posted February 6, 2014 Share #1 Posted February 6, 2014 Anyone having problems with Plex: Install it manually for Plexpass 0.9.9 or via Package Centre. Login via SSH cd / cd /var/packages/Plex\ Media\ Server/scripts/ ./start-stop-status start It should give the following error: Starting Plex ... su: can't chdir to home directory '/var/services/homes/plex' terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error' what(): boost::filesystem::create_directories: Permission denied: "/volume1/Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server" ln: /usr/syno/synoman/webman/3rdparty/plex: File exists Do the following: cd / cd /volume1 mkdir Plex chown plex Plex Go back to /var/packages/Plex\ Media\ Server/scripts/ and run ./start-stop-status start It should show a load of permission denied Login to webmanager go to control panel in Users > Advanced, enable "Enable user home service" Then load Filestation go into the Plex folder right click Library and set owner as plex and group as administrators. run "./start-stop-status start" and Plex should load, login to Plex and set it up, go back to ssh and run "./start-stop-status stop" Then go to web manager, package centre and you should be able to start and stop Plex fine now. I know nothing about linux, command lines, etc.. so there is possibly an easier way to do this but these are the steps I did and it works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christosd Posted February 6, 2014 Share #2 Posted February 6, 2014 Thanks a lot for the helpful tips !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diverge Posted February 6, 2014 Share #3 Posted February 6, 2014 weird, i never had any problems using plex PMS on beta 5. I forget if I manually installed initially, but that's how I always update to the latest PMS (downloading spk and manual install). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLegendOfMart Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share #4 Posted February 7, 2014 I've never been able to get any version of Plex running on DSM5.0 without having to mess about in CLI, I know it works from the get go for some people but I struggled to get an answer from people so I thought I'd post this just in case someone else was having the same problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quizzer16 Posted February 12, 2014 Share #5 Posted February 12, 2014 When I try to mkdir Plex i get the following permission error: Server> mkdir Plex mkdir: can't create directory 'Plex': Permission denied I SSH'd to the the server via Terminal on a Mac using the the default 'admin' user and password that I created during initial DSM setup. I looked into the Users section of the Control Panel in DSM and it appears the 'admin' user is as privileged as can be... New to XPEnology (just got my N54L today), any help appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaqushi Posted February 13, 2014 Share #6 Posted February 13, 2014 you can just setup a folder "Plex" in the file station and set user permissons under "users" (read-write permission for user plex for the Plex folder. Absolutely no need to use ssh for this or to use the start-stop procedure. I had the same issue (plex not running), I installed the latest plex package manually (plex pass required), and added Plex folder and subfolders (as they would have been set up automatically using the 4.3 or lower version). Apparently in the beta 5 version the Plex folder and subfolders are not setup automatically when installing the plex package, thats why the package doesnt run. If you skip the subfolders (as displayed below), Plex package might run, but in my case the videos (in transcode mode) didn't play with a client (M3U8 error). They only played when adding the transcode subfolder. Like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quizzer16 Posted February 13, 2014 Share #7 Posted February 13, 2014 Thanks a lot. That worked a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quizzer16 Posted February 13, 2014 Share #8 Posted February 13, 2014 Thanks a lot. That worked a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dss-dsm5 Posted February 23, 2014 Share #9 Posted February 23, 2014 hi everyone i done everything that everyone done i think, this is error i get Starting Plex ... ./start-stop-status: line 86: /usr/syno/sbin/synoshare: Permission denied su: must be suid to work properly ln: /usr/syno/synoman/webman/3rdparty/plex: File exists plex service will not start. hope we can sovle this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaqushi Posted February 23, 2014 Share #10 Posted February 23, 2014 look two posts above, forget for ssh or any start-stop-status. post again when two posts above does not work. its pretty simple and everything to be done using the DSM GUI only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dss-dsm5 Posted February 23, 2014 Share #11 Posted February 23, 2014 hi i try a couple times and i know it simple just dosent work for me, here's pic filesystem? done permissions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaqushi Posted February 24, 2014 Share #12 Posted February 24, 2014 Plex is a separate user, so why do you have a plex folder under "home" - that is supposedly your admin account right? See screenshot above. Under users you should have admin, guest , and plex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepet Posted March 22, 2014 Share #13 Posted March 22, 2014 hi everyone i done everything that everyone done i think, this is error i get Starting Plex ... ./start-stop-status: line 86: /usr/syno/sbin/synoshare: Permission denied su: must be suid to work properly ln: /usr/syno/synoman/webman/3rdparty/plex: File exists plex service will not start. hope we can sovle this Hi there, I'm having exactly same problem. Don't know how to log in as a super user, only as an admin. I've made also folders as suggested below, permissions to read/write and it still doesn't work. I'm sure I'm missing something, I'll keep trying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepet Posted March 23, 2014 Share #14 Posted March 23, 2014 Got it! The way to access via ssh as a "su" is using "root" as a user, and your password. Then, you can follow easily what's on the first post of this thread. I guess if you're familiar with linux it is something elemental, but if you're not (like me) it can be hard to find out. I'm starting in this forum, by the way. I'll try to do my best, you're doing a great job here. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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