Nobara Linux - Emby Setup

[tda0626 0]

I had such a time getting Emby to work this time around. After 8-12 hours of troubleshooting, I found what was causing my problems and the bane of my existence. Some of the files in the /var/lib/emby location, were set to root:root ownership for some reason. How in the world did that happen because I would like to know this? It sure as hell was not me that changed the ownership to root:root.

 

Regards,

 

Tim

[Luke 42077]

Hi, is this a new installation? What problem were you having?

[tda0626 0]

It is a new OS installation. I was originally on Garuda Linux. 

It wouldn't play anything so I initially thought it was permissions and most of my troubleshooting revolved around that assumption. However, later, I got an error from Emby that it couldn't access a file in the Emby installation directory so I went to the Emby files location that I specified above and checked the ownership of files. For some reason, a few of the files were set to root:root ownership. I changed the ownership over to Emby and everything worked after that. 

I spent a whole weekend getting it work and was just curious how they got changed to root. 

 

Tim

[Luke 42077]

Are you sure it was rot right from the get go after installing?

[tda0626 0]

I installed Emby and tried to get it working immediately so  it was from the start.

[alucryd 315]

Hi there, it's definitely not emby, we even chown the dir to `emby:emby` when creating the emby user on the first installation if for some reason the directory already exists.

Here's an excerpt from our install script.

getent passwd emby > /dev/null 2>&1 || (useradd -r -c 'Emby Server' -g emby -d /var/lib/emby -m -s /usr/sbin/nologin emby && passwd -l emby > /dev/null && chown emby:emby -R /var/lib/emby)

Also please make sure you're using the regular `emby-server` service, the only thing I can think of that would create root owned files from our side would be to run the `emby-server@root` service.