How to auto restart Emby service?

[raptorjr 15]

If I'm lucky, Emby server only crasch once a day, and I have only one time seen it running for 5-6 days. But it is annoying when I want to sit down and watch something just to realize that the server have crasched again.

 

I'm not that good on Linux/Ubuntu, but I wonder if there is some way to automatically restart a crasched Emby server process? I've heard of something called monit, but don't know how to use it. But maybe there is other things I could use to accomplish the same thing?

 

 

 

[freebs 2]

Open a terminal

 

type as follows:

sudo service emby-server restart

 

it will ask for root password

emby will restart - mine crashes as well, not sure why yet.

Edited June 11, 2015 by freebs

[Deihmos 169]

I am just curious why you would use it if not good with it? I installed ubuntu to try it out yesterday and installed emby but couldn't imagine switching. I have had emby running over 30 days and I have never seen it crash. That's on Windows though.

[Lessaj 467]

My server (linux mint 17.1) has been up for 125 days, I haven't rebooted it since I built it. Not a single emby crash.

[Lessaj 467]

I'm freehanding this but you can try something like this:

 

 

(as root, or do some work with expect to type in your password for you, you'll have to add sudo infront of the server start if you do that)

nohup ~/mbhealthcheck.sh &

 

#!/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]

do

       CHECK=`ps -ef | grep -i mediabrowser.server | grep -v grep | wc -l`

 

        if [ $CHECK -eq 0 ]

        then

        service emby-server start

        fi

        sleep 300

done

Edited June 11, 2015 by Lessaj

[Saner2oo2 4]

from memory.

 

 

sudo apt-get install monit

sudo nano /etc/monit/monitrc

 

 

change (if you want its httpd)

set httpd port 2812

 

to remove the hash (#)

set httpd port 2812 and allow user:password.

 

 

 

add to the end, before the includes.

 

 

 

 

##############

check process emby-server with pidfile /var/run/emby-server.pid

start program = "/etc/init.d/emby-server start"

stop program = "/etc/init.d/emby-server stop"

if failed host localhost port 8096 then restart

###############

 

 

 

 

sudo service monit restart

 

 

http://localhost:2812

[ressu 13]

You might also check out this post: http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/21954-emby-crashes-consistently-due-to-a-sigsev-as-well-as-a-long-loop-of-createprocess-error-creating-process-handle/&do=findComment&comment=215368

 

That should be the cause of the server shutdowns. It'll be fixed in Ubuntu eventually, but in case you want to fix the root cause instead of remedying the symptom, you could upgrade your kernel..

[Saner2oo2 4]

mine is on 4.1 (albeit rc6, i need to update) and its still very crashy

[raptorjr 15]

Thank you all.

Much help and many good suggestions. In one way or another this will help me alot.

[JakeByr 5]

I've been having trouble with the server crashing on me as well. Just posted some logs to hopefully get some light to shine on this. 

[macntouch 0]

I'm using daemontools under linux. It will monitor emby-server service status, and if the service is unreachable, it will restart automatically. It's working like a charm.

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for the feedback.

[mastrmind11 722]

FWIW, recent flavors of Linux have moved to systemd, which offers auto-restart of units natively.  I, and others here, have had great success w/ monit as well.  But since the OP is over 2 years old, and most of what I've said is already covered above, I digress.

[macntouch 0]

Auto-restart in systemd is not bullet-proof, i tried to tune the emby-server.service for auto-restart, but it always fails.

 

I had to use daemontools which monitor the service and restart when the service goes down.

 

My two cents.

[tlmr_guest 0]

Auto-restart in systemd is not bullet-proof, i tried to tune the emby-server.service for auto-restart, but it always fails.

 

I had to use daemontools which monitor the service and restart when the service goes down.

 

My two cents.

Hi macntouch, can you guide me how can I add emby service in daemontools?