Ubuntu 14.04 Emby Server Daemon Fail

[amotto11 2]

All,

 

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server, and about an hour ago, Emby was running just fine. I ran an update of the server "sudo apt-get update" and now emby will not start up. The Emby-server daemon fails on startup, and when i run "sudo service emby-server start" i receive this "emby-server start/running, process 2425", but i cannot get into emby from http://localhost:8096. The second time i try to start it i receive this "emby-server start/post-stop, process 2445". Did something update in Ubuntu 14.04 and cause Emby to fail?

 

Since this is a new server, I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and reinstalled everything that I had before including Emby and still getting the same error. I do not have any new applications installed that weren't on when Emby was working, the only thing i can think of is it has something to do with the update. When the computer is starting up it says emby-server daemon [fail].

 

I am sort of new to Ubuntu, i am building a media server, so if this is something that i need to put on their forum i can do that.

 

I can post logs, but you will have to point me to where they are stored, because I am very much a beginner.

[fc7 123]

No need. This is a known issue with current Debian/Ubuntu packages that we are trying to solve. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can find more information in the forum.

 

 

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[amotto11 2]

Thank you for your response. I'm sorry, but could you point to the forum that you are referring too via hyperlink, so that I may follow it?

[ilikerolls 0]

Thank you for your response. I'm sorry, but could you point to the forum that you are referring too via hyperlink, so that I may follow it?

 

amotto11, Check out my post

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/24278-new-emby-initd-script-not-working/  for the "workaround".  Unfortunately you will have to start it manually for now, but there is a workaround that works.

[amotto11 2]

amotto11, Check out my post

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/24278-new-emby-initd-script-not-working/  for the "workaround".  Unfortunately you will have to start it manually for now, but there is a workaround that works.

I tried a couple of the "workarounds" that were listed, but none seemed to help me. I don't mean to be redundant, but could you post the exact code that you are using to start emby. I am fairly new to Ubuntu, so much of what they were talking about went right over my head.

[fc7 123]

From terminal run:

"sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/emby-server/emby-server.sh"

 

Then:

"/etc/init.d/emby-server start" or if it fails "sudo /etc/init.d/emby-server start"

 

Of course skip the quotes when typing the command in terminal.

Edited August 14, 2015 by fc7

[amotto11 2]

From terminal run: "/etc/init.d/emby-server start" or if it fails "sudo etc/init.d/emby-server start"

running with sudo worked. Thank you very much! I will start it like this from now on, until it is fixed.

[curtisghanson 5]

I just wanna throw one more thing out there. If your server reboots for whatever reason, such as a scheduled task, it will not reboot successfully. You may want to also edit the restart.sh script:

 

/usr/lib/emby-server/restart.sh

#!/bin/sh

#/usr/bin/sudo service emby-server restart
/usr/bin/sudo /etc/init.d/emby-server restart