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Hi, 

I had a server and everything was working perfect, but I did an infrastructure update and now I'm having some problems.

To migrate emby I installed emby on the new server and used the backup and restore function, everything was looking great but I found that new movies are not appearing.

If I do library -> scan library files the movies will appear, but just if I force this scan. 

I checked the logs and watching directory looks good. I also tried another folder (I use two drives with media) and the same problem.....

LibraryMonitor: Watching directory with new FileSystemWatcher for /mnt/sg16/midia/filmes for item 62098

Please check the logs attached, the last part of the logs is loading the file info because I forced library scan

Thanks

embyserver.txt

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update information: I just uninstalled emby (both apt uninstall and  rm -rf on the folders)

Fresh installed it, no backup restore, created one test library pointing to a new and empty folder.

Added  a movie to that folder and nothing happened. After click on library > update the movie appeared.

I don't know what is the problem but with this tests I have a good idea about what is not the problem:

* permissions as the movie works after lib update

* backup restore as I tried a fresh install

* files or folders corrupted as I tried a clean new folder with a single movie

The only thing I can imagine now is that before the hdd was directly attached to the machine and now I am using OMV, so to try I did two tests:

* option 1: mount using fstab and pointing library to the mount point

* option 2: point the library directly to the shared folder 

Both options have exactly the same behavior. Movies just appears after a manual click on the scan library option

I added one more movie and everything remains the same (not working), so I'm sharing the logs of the new installation here

Thanks 

embyserver (1).txt

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update information:

One more test,

I created a local folder on the same machine on /tmp/emby-test 

Create a new library and pointed to that folder

Added a movie there and set permissions as 777 to be sure 

the movie just appears after manual click on library scan

I excluded the movie using emby ui to  be 100% sure permissions were ok and it excluded

 

I forgot to mention before:

* real time mapping is active in the library configuration

* Server is Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-97-generic x86_64)

 

 

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HI, so your media is on a network share? Most likely the realtime monitor will not work. Did you setup your libraries using smb/unc network share paths?

 

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Hi Luke, I have tested three libraries and none of them can get updated automatically:

1 - Network share mounted on the same ubuntu as the emby is, so emby is pointing to /mnt/....

2 - Network share directly added to the library as something like \\mynas.lan\....

3 - Local folder on the same ubuntu as emby is, so no network share.

None of this tests worked as realtime monitoring but all of them shows my movies after I manually scan the library.

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Emby Server uses dotnet, which internally uses INotify for it's realtime monitor function. So your media folders need to be something that INofify supports.

#3 should definitely work. Can we please look at an example of that? Thanks.

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About option 3 I keep it as simple as possible:

Created a folder /tmp/emby-test/

chmod 777 /tmp/emby-test

Created a new library pointing to that empty folder

add a movie file to /tmp/emby-test

chmod 777 the movie file

After this I was expecting thee movie to appear in emby, but nothing happened.

settings > library > scan button pressed and the movie appears, I can play and I also can remove it using emby app

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Ok, let's go:

* logs sent

* date time is one minute before the first post was created here

* Linux emby user was default "emby" but I also tested as "root" but no success 

* problem description already done on previous messages

 

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First and second messages of this post, both have logs attached

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29 minutes ago, igorbr said:

First and second messages of this post, both have logs attached

OK, but which is the one containing the #3 example? And what example (media file) are we looking at?

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On 3/5/2024 at 9:06 AM, igorbr said:

I did an infrastructure update and now I'm having some problems.

What does this mean? What did you change from before to after?

 

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The RTM facility doesn't work on network filesystems.

/tmp is tmpfs (usually) and to be honest I couldn't say if inotify would work there either. Try a different path on a block filesystem.

 

 

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On 3/7/2024 at 4:12 AM, Luke said:

Hi, logs sent to where? 

Second post contains it

You can see the emby-server side of this steps:

About option 3 I keep it as simple as possible:

Created a folder /tmp/emby-test/

chmod 777 /tmp/emby-test

Created a new library pointing to that empty folder

add a movie file to /tmp/emby-test

chmod 777 the movie file

After this I was expecting thee movie to appear in emby, but nothing happened.

settings > library > scan button pressed and the movie appears, I can play and I also can remove it using emby app

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1 hour ago, Q-Droid said:

The RTM facility doesn't work on network filesystems.

/tmp is tmpfs (usually) and to be honest I couldn't say if inotify would work there either. Try a different path on a block filesystem.

 

 

Oh man, this makes a lot of sense, I will try it

Thanks

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