Emby 4+ will not start on my Debian machine

[embymike 0]

Hello all,
 
I am behind the times, and recently tried to upgrade a working emby 3.5.3.0 installation on Debian 9 (x64).  I downloaded emby-server-deb_4.2.0.1_amd64.deb from emby.com/downloads and ran sudo dpkg -i emby-server...
 
The package appears to load, but sudo systemctl status emby-server.service shows:

● emby-server.service - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/emby-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: signal) since Thu 2019-04-25 08:38:10 EDT; 40s ago
  Process: 12660 ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
 Main PID: 12660 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)

Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at System.IO.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String fullPath)
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path)
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.FileLogger..ctor(String path)
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.SimpleLogManager.ReloadLogger(LogSeverity severity, CancellationToken cancellat
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Apr 25 08:38:09 Enterprise emby-server[12660]:    at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.WaitAllCore(Task[] tasks, Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToke
Apr 25 08:38:10 Enterprise systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Apr 25 08:38:10 Enterprise systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 25 08:38:10 Enterprise systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'

sudo systemctl start|restart emby-server.service fails to start it,

 

When I do dpkg -P emby-server... to uninstall, then I re-install 3.5.3, the old version works again.

 

I'm clueless.  I did my best to scour the forums here.  I tried removing the emby user and group before installation.  No luck.  I cannot find any emby log files, since it appears emby never starts.  I've tried emby versions 4.0.1.0, 4.1.0.26, 4.2.0.1.  Nothing in the 4's works.

 

Thanks for any advice!

 

Mike

[Luke 42078]

Strange. It seems to suggest there's no write access to the logs directory.

[bellocarico 4]

Strange. It seems to suggest there's no write access to the logs directory.

Oh.... well spotted, Not sure why this has happened though!

 

Fixed manually now it works again!

 

Many thanks!

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback !

[al92780 7]

I have same problem.  Can you identify the specific files you changed?

Thks

al

[Luke 42078]

16 minutes ago, al92780 said:

I have same problem.  Can you identify the specific files you changed?

Thks

al