grenadecx 6 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Hi there, So I'm trying to transition from kodi shared mysql setup to emby instead. I added my TV shows library and my Movie library.TV Show library seems to scan just fine and add all the shows, but when it comes to Movies it's all empty.I tried checking the log file. but it doesn't seem to output any errors. I double checked permissions but there's no difference in permissions between my tv shows folder and my movies folder. I checked the wiki if I needed to do any kind of change on my naming the files, but it doesn't seem to change anything.Example from the log when I press to scan the folder: 2020-03-29 18:21:03.636 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.60.100:8096/emby/Items/f137a2dd21bbc1b99aa5c0f6bf02a805/Refresh?Recursive=true&ImageRefreshMode=Default&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllImages=false&ReplaceAllMetadata=false. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36 2020-03-29 18:21:03.637 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.60.131. Time: 2ms. http://192.168.60.100:8096/emby/Items/f137a2dd21bbc1b99aa5c0f6bf02a805/Refresh?Recursive=true&ImageRefreshMode=Default&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllImages=false&ReplaceAllMetadata=false Example of one of the movies in the library: /mnt/raid/Movies/Alita Battle Angel (2019)/Alita Battle Angel (2019).mkv Permissions: 20 drwxr-xr-x 143 grenadecx grenadecx 20480 Jan 26 19:06 Movies 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 grenadecx grenadecx 4096 Mar 29 17:25 Alita Battle Angel (2019) 4404924 -rwxr-xr-x 1 grenadecx grenadecx 4510636058 Aug 23 2019 'Alita Battle Angel (2019).mkv' Emby is running on Ubuntu 18.04 under version 4.4.0.40.I've attached a few screenshots of the library configuration.If any kind soul could point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36887 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Hi, can you compare the permissions to what's in our guide here? https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/32218-file-permissions-guide-for-new-linux-users/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadecx 6 Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 Alright, so changing the owner to emby and the group to users make emby-server scanning those files work. But what's the difference between movie and tv show scanning when it comes to permissions? Those files were already marked with read permissions by the "others" group, and keeping my tv shows folder under my other user, grenadecx works just fine, so what's going on here, why isn't readonly the only required permission to scan that folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36887 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Hmm. It's not obvious to me but @@mastrmind11 may have some tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 that's really bizarre. the tv permissions are grenadecx:grenadecx with 755 access and they are scanned successfully? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadecx 6 Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 Yeah that's right. The permissions for the TV shows are exactly the same as for the Movies, 755 with grenadecx as user and group.TV shows scans just fine, but nothing with Movies. Changing the permissions to emby:users makes it work and or changing emby to run under grenadecx user also works. And I'm fine with the last solution, but I still find it weird that with 755 as permissions, why it wouldn't scan the movie folder. I mean sure, emby needs write permissions for some stuffs, but for just scanning and indexing, readonly seems like it should be the only needed permission for this to work doesn't it?One Movie permission (not working) 20 drwxr-xr-x 143 grenadecx grenadecx 20480 Jan 26 19:06 Movies 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 grenadecx grenadecx 4096 Mar 29 17:25 Alita Battle Angel (2019) 4404924 -rwxr-xr-x 1 grenadecx grenadecx 4510636058 Aug 23 2019 'Alita Battle Angel (2019).mkv' On tv show permission (works) 4 drwxr-xr-x 127 grenadecx grenadecx 4096 mar 29 16:34 Series 4 drwxr-xr-x 10 grenadecx grenadecx 4096 okt 16 04:43 Arrow 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 grenadecx grenadecx 4096 jun 19 2013 'Season 1' 373504 -rwxr-xr-x 1 grenadecx grenadecx 382460663 jan 9 2013 'Arrow.S01E01.HDTV.x264.mp4' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Yeah weird, that should be working. The only thing I can think of is possibly a difference in your fstab mount command for each mount point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadecx 6 Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 These folders are on the same mounted raid device on the same level folder. /dev/md0 /mnt/raid ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0 grenadecx@sateda:~$ ls -lsa /mnt/raid/ total 76 4 drwxr-xr-x 12 grenadecx grenadecx 4096 mar 29 22:17 . 4 drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 apr 14 2017 .. 20 drwxr-xr-x 143 grenadecx grenadecx 20480 jan 26 19:06 Movies 4 drwxr-xr-x 127 grenadecx grenadecx 4096 mar 29 16:34 Series Anyways, I'm fine with having emby run under my user instead. But I still think it's weird and perhaps more extensive tests needs to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 yeah i dunno, never run into this before. glad you got it kinda sorted out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36887 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Thanks for the info, yea this is a strange one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuzz1369 7 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Alright, so changing the owner to emby and the group to users make emby-server scanning those files work. But what's the difference between movie and tv show scanning when it comes to permissions? Those files were already marked with read permissions by the "others" group, and keeping my tv shows folder under my other user, grenadecx works just fine, so what's going on here, why isn't readonly the only required permission to scan that folder? You really dont want emby to be the owner of the media folders. Never give emby access to delete media. The second bug in the last year in the latest stable version has people losing their whole libraries. Just an FYI Sent from my SM-G965W using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadecx 6 Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 You really dont want emby to be the owner of the media folders. Never give emby access to delete media. The second bug in the last year in the latest stable version has people losing their whole libraries. Just an FYI If that's true it's kinda scary. But I don't know how to solve this without giving it access since it refused to scan with only readonly rights, at least via the "others" access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 (edited) If that's true it's kinda scary. But I don't know how to solve this without giving it access since it refused to scan with only readonly rights, at least via the "others" access. That was an old bug, addressed a long time ago, and affected a small fraction of users that were deleting stuff from the root directory from within the emby UI. tbh, you should really have an access hierarchy set up regardless. Adding accounts to your main group (you) is bad practice for obvious reasons. It's simple enough to create as new group, add your users like emby and yourself, and just give it r+x. What you're doing as a workaround is a hack and will eventually bite you in the ass. Edited March 30, 2020 by mastrmind11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuzz1369 7 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 That was an old bug, addressed a long time ago https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/84009-44040-deleted-all-my-files/ Sent from my SM-G965W using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadecx 6 Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 tbh, you should really have an access hierarchy set up regardless. Adding accounts to your main group (you) is bad practice for obvious reasons. It's simple enough to create as new group, add your users like emby and yourself, and just give it r+x. What you're doing as a workaround is a hack and will eventually bite you in the ass. You're right, but. My access was fine. I had my content as readonly for other people then me with 755, it's really not my fault that emby doesn't care about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alucryd 213 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Did you perhaps have local metadata saving (like the nfo and artwork) enabled on one of the libraries and not the others? It seems really weird that one works and not the other, maybe you had some ACL going on? They're usually denoted by an asterisk after the 3 mode bits. I personally have all my library folders as drwxrwsr-x, and am still using the old style users group, to which I added emby. Emby runs as emby:emby, but still save files as the users group thanks to g+s, coupled with a custom 002 umask this makes all files readable to both my users and emby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadecx 6 Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 I didn't. Movies and TV Shows were identic to the setup. Anyways, I tried replicating this on another user with similar permissions and I couldn't. So I'll just leave it as it is. I thank you all for the support! I really appreciated the help to get it working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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