Problem with installing emby plugins

[percie 0]

Hello.

I installed emby plugin on my FreeNAS-11.2-U3 and it works fine. But when I tried to install Auto Box Sets plugin it didn't installed. I've got the message that plugin was installed succesfully and after server restart plugin was not installed. I tried different plugins but result was the same. My current version of EmbyServer is 4.2.0.40. The same problem was on 4.0.4 and 4.1. I've attached both logs before and after restart.

embyserver_before_restart.txt

embyserver_after_restart.txt

[Luke 36997]

Hmm, that's strange. @@robi are you able to reproduce?

[percie 0]

@@Luke, are you asking me? Yes, I can repeat.

[MRobi 159]

Hmm, that's strange. @@robi are you able to reproduce?

I've run into this issue in the past and it wasn't Emby related, it was permissions related caused by the way I store my configs outside of the jail and how I gave Emby access to my shared files. If I remember right, I added Emby to the group that had permission to my media, but the dataset for the configs folder did not allow group writing so the plugin files could not actually be saved in the plugins directory.

 

@@percie as a simple test, you can try setting the permissions of /var/db/emby-server/ to 0777 and see if it will let you install the plugins at that point. I wouldn't leave it that way permanently, but this is the quickest way to test if it's permissions related. I'm guessing your issue is similar to what I ran into above.

[percie 0]

@@MRobi, no, it didn't help, but maybe there is other directory which could cause such behavior?

[MRobi 159]

@@MRobi, no, it didn't help, but maybe there is other directory which could cause such behavior?

I should mention to be sure to set the permission recursively, so it would be chmod -r. Otherwise it would just change the parent directory but all sub directories and files would maintain their original permissions.

 

I don't believe there would be another directory where permissions would affect plugins. I'm not in front of my system right now, but by memory the plugins are installed at /var/db/emby-server/config/plugins. 

[percie 0]

@@MRobi

Plugins are installed in /var/db/emby-server/plugins and I changed permissions recursively. I thought that maybe there is a temporary directory for downloading plugins and this directory doesn't have correct permissions.

For the temporary solution I just copied plugins manually and they are work fine.

[MRobi 159]

@@MRobi

Plugins are installed in /var/db/emby-server/plugins and I changed permissions recursively. I thought that maybe there is a temporary directory for downloading plugins and this directory doesn't have correct permissions.

For the temporary solution I just copied plugins manually and they are work fine.

Glad you found a temporary workaround. 

 

If you install a plugin, before restarting the server do you see the files in the plugins directory?

My only other thought is that it could be networking related. Emby may not be able to connect to the server to download the plugin. But this would usually have other related issues like metadata not downloading, etc..

[percie 0]

Glad you found a temporary workaround. 

 

If you install a plugin, before restarting the server do you see the files in the plugins directory?

My only other thought is that it could be networking related. Emby may not be able to connect to the server to download the plugin. But this would usually have other related issues like metadata not downloading, etc..

No, after installing there is no new plugin in directory. I can't see any problem with http in logs, so I don't know what could be the problem with networking. I have no issues with metadata loading.