Emby 4.9 does not launch (FreeBSD 13)

[mueslo 17]

Just tried upgrading from 4.8.0.x to 4.9.0.22 on FreeBSD 13.2 Jail (on TrueNAS, FreeBSD 13.1 Kernel)

However, emby doesn't even launch and there are also no logs generated. If I try to manually launch emby as follows, it immediately exits with exit code 137

$ sudo -u emby /usr/local/lib/emby-server/system/EmbyServer -os freebsd
Failed to create CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x8007054F
$ echo $?
137

Upgrading to 4.8.7.x and 4.8.8.x instead and it still works fine. So something else is causing it. Interestingly, I see the same error when running

$ dotnet --info
Failed to create CoreCLR, HRESULT: 0x8007054F

Host:
  Version:      8.0.0
  Architecture: x64
  Commit:       5535e31a71
  RID:          freebsd-x64

.NET SDKs installed:
  8.0.100 [/usr/local/dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.0 [/usr/local/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.0 [/usr/local/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

Other architectures found:
  None

Environment variables:
  Not set

global.json file:
  Not found

Learn more:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/info

Download .NET:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/download

Did 4.9 shift to using system dotnet, which appears to have some issue on FreeBSD 13 with the latest version? https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/99857

Edited June 1, 2024 by mueslo

[alucryd 315]

You will need to upgrade to a 13.3 jail, dotnet 8 doesn't work on 13.2 and older.

[bolok 18]

Ran into this personally.  4.9.18? and previous ran fine on a 13.1 jail/truenas 13.1.  But i got stymied updating beyond that.   I'm fairly certain you need to update to the 13.3 beta+ of Truenas for the 13.3 jails to fully work correctly with the new dotnet reqs.  I did install the TN beta, and a 13.3 jail with the latest emby started with no issue. Was too lazy to try upgrading my old jail, so just copied over the library files and remapped all the library mounts.  Working fine.

[Luke 42077]

Yea it’s not that we want to raise the requirements, it’s just that it seems it is necessary for dotnet 8.

[mueslo 17]

Yep, I can confirm that it works with jail updated to 13.3 (still on 13.1 host)