How to get restart from the webinterface working on Ubuntu 14.04

[jant90 15]

I just installed Emby Server on my Ubuntu 14.04 server but I noticed I can't restart Emby from the webinterface.

 

Manually executing "sudo /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh" from cli works fine. However when pressing the restart button in the webinferce Emby only shuts down.

 

Is this a permissions issue of some sorts? I need to be root to successfully restart from cli.

 

I installed the latest stable Emby Server (3.0.5871.0) from the repo using apt-get as per the instructions.

 

EDIT:

I also tried a chown, but that didn't help either (so I changed it back to root just in case):

sudo chown -R emby:emby /usr/lib/emby-server

EDIT2:

It could also be useful to mention that Emby start fine when booting the system.

Edited February 20, 2016 by jant90

[TSandman 3]

It's not just fresh installs, I've got the same thing here, since one or two updates ago (don't remember)

 

"sudo service restart emby-server" works and restart the server but not from the web interface (server shuts down and doesn't restart)

[everydayevil 6]

Just tested mine and confirmed for me as well.
I usually start/stop via sudo service emby-server rather than GUI button so didn't notice this.

I wonder if this impacts other emby initiated restarts (upgrade reboots, etc)

[f-u-t 7]

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Edited March 12, 2016 by mymovies

[haeffnkr 3]

I also can not restart from the web page.

[jant90 15]

I looked at the sudoers file thinking Emby might not have the right permissions or something but I found quite a big file from Emby ensuring all required permissions were in place.

 

So I took the restart.sh file down to the very basic and now it's restarting fine from the web interface, so "sudo nano /usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh":

#!/bin/bash
service emby-server restart

I hope this file will remain in tact during Emby updates.

[everydayevil 6]

Disregard for now i misread some of that code and my changes were wrong... restart was intermittently working.

 

 

jant90,

 

I went through and looked at the restart.sh after I saw your fix.

I found the reason the existing code wasn't working.

 

 

if you want to fix the existing code use this.....

Tested on my system and working.

___________________________________________________
#!/bin/bash

NAME=emby-server

restart_cmds=("s6-svc -t /var/run/s6/services/${NAME}" \
  "systemctl restart ${NAME}" \
  "service ${NAME} restart" \
  "/etc/init.d/${NAME} restart" \
  "invoke-rc.d ${NAME} restart")

PIDFILE=`find /var/run -name "emby*.pid" -print -quit`
[ -n "$PIDFILE" ] && EMBY_PID=`cat ${PIDFILE} 2> /dev/null || true`

for restart_cmds in "${restart_cmds[@]}"; do
  cmd=$(echo "$restart_cmds" | awk '{print $1}')
  cmd_loc=$(command -v ${cmd})
  if [ -n "$cmd_loc" ]; then
    restart_cmds=$(echo "$restart_cmds" | sed -e "s%${cmd}%${cmd_loc}%")
    exec sudo $restart_cmds > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    sleep 1
    if ! kill -0 $EMBY_PID > /dev/null; then
      break
    fi
  fi
done
_________________________________________________________________-

 

Luke,

 

There were multiple typos in the restart_cmds variable cmd singular vs cmds plural

 

-everydayevil

Edited February 22, 2016 by everydayevil

[hurricanehrndz 149]

This will not remain intact. The updates overwrite the file.

[hurricanehrndz 149]

Thank you all for your feedback though. I believe I discovered the issue. It has to do with the sudoers file. The emby group needs permission to secured directories such as /sbin. I will try and address it. 

[hurricanehrndz 149]

Please see the following as well for future error submissions:

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Linux-Troubleshooting-Guide-and-FAQ

[hurricanehrndz 149]

Same here on Debian 7, but this started long time ago.

But its not such a big problem because i do most restarts with ssh.

Update and upgrade is not affected, also at server reboot it starts trough the init script.

I just tested a debian 7 clean install, version 3.0.5871.0 and restart works perfectly fine. 

 

I will check ubuntu 14.04 next.

[hurricanehrndz 149]

Can confirm an issue on ubuntu 14.04.

[runtimesandbox 153]

From my experience it was an issue with Ubuntu 14.04

I have since moved to Debain 8.3 and it is not a problem there.

[hurricanehrndz 149]

From my experience it was an issue with Ubuntu 14.04

I have since moved to Debain 8.3 and it is not a problem there.

Yes, it seems to be only an issue with 14.04.

[jant90 15]

@@hurricanehrndz please fix this in the next release, if it's just an Ubuntu 14.04 issue then it's just a matter of detecting the OS and just doing a simple service restart.

 

My suggestion, place this code at the start of the restart.sh script and we, Ubuntu 14.04 users, are happy again:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $(lsb_release -d) == *"Ubuntu 14.04"* ]] ; then
	service emby-server restart
	exit
fi

Easy enough and should have no downsides as it only executes on Ubuntu 14.04 systems.

Edited March 29, 2016 by jant90

[AdamBearWA 3]

Pretty sure I had the same issue in 15.04 & 15.10.

Also, when updating via apt-get, the service never comes back on. Might be related? 

[hurricanehrndz 149]

@@hurricanehrndz please fix this in the next release, if it's just an Ubuntu 14.04 issue then it's just a matter of detecting the OS and just doing a simple service restart.

 

My suggestion, place this code at the start of the restart.sh script and we, Ubuntu 14.04 users, are happy again:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $(lsb_release -d) == *"Ubuntu 14.04"* ]] ; then
	service emby-server restart
	exit
fi

Easy enough and should have no downsides as it only executes on Ubuntu 14.04 systems.

I have tried running the command and that same script on my 14.04 and it will not restart. I don't see this issue anywhere else. I can not depend on lsb_release. I will try again. In my testing situations I have not be able to get emby to restart at all within 14.04 no matter what restart command I use.

[hurricanehrndz 149]

Pretty sure I had the same issue in 15.04 & 15.10.

Also, when updating via apt-get, the service never comes back on. Might be related? 

Not in my testing, if using systemd.

[jant90 15]

Not in my testing, if using systemd.

I basically run apt-get -y install emby-server from cron (as root) every night to auto-update Emby and then it restarts perfectly fine indeed. However the restart.sh file gets overridden and to solve that issue for me I just added a line to my auto-update script to change the restart.sh script to what I proposed. This solves both the missing auto-update feature and the restart issue for me.

 

I do hope you get to the bottom of this issue though, the contradicting bug reports in this thread must be very frustrating.

[hurricanehrndz 149]

Yeah, with 16.04 about to come out. I hope people care a lot less about 14.04

 

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