Crashing emby server on Ubuntu 18.04
Hi,
Just tried to watch emby after a few days only to find that it is crashing a few seconds after starting up. Since the last successful start of emby, I've added a movie and a new TV series to my media library. Originally the directory for that particular movie didn't allow the emby user write access and so emby couldn't write the nfo file. I didn't think that was the critical issue, but as it was flagged as an error in the logs, I've changed the permissions on that directory. Now I can't
It looks like that's part of what the OP is doing. The other recommendation to modify the systemd unit file directly has a problem in that the next Emby update installed can overwrite the changes. The proper permanent way to change this is with a unit file override that is preserved across updates.
systemctl edit emby-server.service
Add the service options you want to override using the same format with [service] and [unit] blocks, save and restart. Some of the options append values and