emby will not start

[Derkington 14]

Hi I had to rebuild my emby server.   This is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

1- Took a backup of /var/lib/emby

2- Rebuilt server

3 - Copied my backup to /var/lib/emby

4- Installed same version of emby

Emby would not start.  So I moved  /var/lib/emby out the way, uninstalled emby.  Then tried again, it still will not start  after many attempts. Below is the only clue I can find but it is not clear to me what is wrong.

 

 emby-server.service - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/emby-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2022-08-17 07:59:11 BST; 32s ago
    Process: 10083 ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 10083 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 135ms

Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]: Source: System.Private.CoreLib
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]: TargetSite: Void CreateDirectory(System.String)
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]:    at System.IO.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String fullPath)
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]:    at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path)
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.FileLogger..ctor(String path)
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.SimpleLogManager.ReloadLogger(LogSeverity severity, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]: InnerException: System.IO.IOException: Permission denied
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]: Source:
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 emby-server[10083]: TargetSite:
Aug 17 07:59:11 nuci5 systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Deactivated successfully.

 

[Derkington 14]

Reinstalled linux fresh again.  This time round installed emby first, then ran through a minimal emby setup. Stopped emby then moved /var/lib/emby out the way and replaced with my backup of /var/lid/emby, restarted and it worked straight away with nothing else required.

Edited August 17, 2022 by Derkington
Added a bit more info.

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback.

[brypie 0]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I am getting the same error in systemctl after downgrading from 4.8.x beta to 4.7.11.0

ubuntu server on raspberry pi (armhf).

 

Any solution which does not involve re-installing the entire ubuntu server??

 

TIA

[Luke 42078]

1 hour ago, brypie said:

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I am getting the same error in systemctl after downgrading from 4.8.x beta to 4.7.11.0

ubuntu server on raspberry pi (armhf).

 

Any solution which does not involve re-installing the entire ubuntu server??

 

TIA

HI, downgrading from 4.8 beta to 4.7 is not supported. I would expect all kinds of problems when trying to do that. If you really want to go back to 4.7 then I would suggest a fresh start instead.

[brypie 0]

Ok, understood.

 

Thanks Luke

[WyattZirbel 16]

On 8/17/2022 at 8:34 AM, Luke said:

Thanks for the feedback.

I was having this exact same issue. Using the CentOS version on Rocky Linux 9.1 (Rocky is a CentOS clone made by the original CentOS devs. "bug-for bug" they say.)

I noticed that /var/lib/emby just didnt exist after installing. I created it and gave it permissions for the correct user and now I'm not having any issues.

I ran 

yum install https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.7.11.0/emby-server-rpm_4.7.11.0_x86_64.rpm

as Emby Server for Linux - Emby says and got that issue directly after trying to start it.

I hope that helps with your bugfixes!!

[Luke 42078]

57 minutes ago, WyattZirbel said:

I was having this exact same issue. Using the CentOS version on Rocky Linux 9.1 (Rocky is a CentOS clone made by the original CentOS devs. "bug-for bug" they say.)

I noticed that /var/lib/emby just didnt exist after installing. I created it and gave it permissions for the correct user and now I'm not having any issues.

I ran 

yum install https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.7.11.0/emby-server-rpm_4.7.11.0_x86_64.rpm

as Emby Server for Linux - Emby says and got that issue directly after trying to start it.

I hope that helps with your bugfixes!!

Hi, we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

[WyattZirbel 16]

On 3/28/2023 at 10:24 PM, Luke said:

Hi, we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

I ended up needing to reinstall Rocky on that VM and the /var/lib/emby directory created like it was supposed to the first time. I'm not sure I did anything different.