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Emby 4+ will not start on my Debian machine


embymike

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embymike

Hello all,
 
I am behind the times, and recently tried to upgrade a working emby 3.5.3.0 installation on Debian 9 (x64).  I downloaded emby-server-deb_4.2.0.1_amd64.deb from emby.com/downloads and ran sudo dpkg -i emby-server...
 
The package appears to load, but sudo systemctl status emby-server.service shows:

● emby-server.service - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/emby-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: signal) since Thu 2019-04-25 08:38:10 EDT; 40s ago
  Process: 12660 ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
 Main PID: 12660 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)

Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at System.IO.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String fullPath)
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path)
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.FileLogger..ctor(String path)
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.SimpleLogManager.ReloadLogger(LogSeverity severity, CancellationToken cancellat
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.WaitAllCore(Task[] tasks, Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToke
Apr 25 08:38:10 Enterprise systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Apr 25 08:38:10 Enterprise systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 25 08:38:10 Enterprise systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'

sudo systemctl start|restart emby-server.service fails to start it,

 

When I do dpkg -P emby-server... to uninstall, then I re-install 3.5.3, the old version works again.

 

I'm clueless.  I did my best to scour the forums here.  I tried removing the emby user and group before installation.  No luck.  I cannot find any emby log files, since it appears emby never starts.  I've tried emby versions 4.0.1.0, 4.1.0.26, 4.2.0.1.  Nothing in the 4's works.

 

Thanks for any advice!

 

Mike

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  • 1 year later...
bellocarico

Strange. It seems to suggest there's no write access to the logs directory.

Oh.... well spotted, Not sure why this has happened though!

 

Fixed manually now it works again!

 

Many thanks!

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  • 5 months later...
16 minutes ago, al92780 said:

I have same problem.  Can you identify the specific files you changed?

Thks

al

 

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