Path disapper!

[Rafa-RHCP 0]

Hello guys, i´m new at this community and was reading this topic.

 

I got the same issue. I installed Emby on a VPS and use RClone connected to Google Drive but when I try to pick the media to the library only part of the path (or even none of the paths) show up in order it´s impossible to go ahead with this process.

 

I tried to unmount Rclone drive several times, changed folder location both to / and /home and nothing changes. It´s important to say that it happens both in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and CentOs 8. I have also changed local folder "GDrive" permissions to 777 and user to "emby" but once i mount it, Rclone automatically rolls back permissions to root again.

 

Does anybody know what else can I do to solve this?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Luke 42077]

Hello guys, i´m new at this community and was reading this topic.

 

I got the same issue. I installed Emby on a VPS and use RClone connected to Google Drive but when I try to pick the media to the library only part of the path (or even none of the paths) show up in order it´s impossible to go ahead with this process.

 

I tried to unmount Rclone drive several times, changed folder location both to / and /home and nothing changes. It´s important to say that it happens both in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and CentOs 8. I have also changed local folder "GDrive" permissions to 777 and user to "emby" but once i mount it, Rclone automatically rolls back permissions to root again.

 

Does anybody know what else can I do to solve this?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

@@kikinjo, @@horstepipe, @igeorge, @@tdiguy, @@Kyouma, @@fbrassin, @@cybergrimes, @@JaScoMa, @@shocker do you have any tips on using rclone this way?

[fbrassin 47]

Hello guys, i´m new at this community and was reading this topic.

 

I got the same issue. I installed Emby on a VPS and use RClone connected to Google Drive but when I try to pick the media to the library only part of the path (or even none of the paths) show up in order it´s impossible to go ahead with this process.

 

I tried to unmount Rclone drive several times, changed folder location both to / and /home and nothing changes. It´s important to say that it happens both in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and CentOs 8. I have also changed local folder "GDrive" permissions to 777 and user to "emby" but once i mount it, Rclone automatically rolls back permissions to root again.

 

Does anybody know what else can I do to solve this?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

I think this problem is related to rclone config and not about emby. I think you could be helped posting your problem and rclone config in rclone forum.

[kikinjo 281]

This sounds like folder permissions, not related to emby.

How are u running rclone with sudo or without ? Where is your config located, paste the path here. Also as fbrassin sais, post the rclone config and mount command.

[shocker 135]

Indeed sound like a permission issue.

 

A basic mount command can be:

rclone mount thedrive_from_config: /path/to/your/mount --config=/path/to/your/config/rclone.conf --allow-other --dir-cache-time 48h --vfs-cache-max-age 48h --vfs-read-chunk-size 10M --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 512M --buffer-size 512M --syslog --umask 002 --allow-non-empty --fast-list --use-mmap --vfs-cache-mode=minimal --vfs-cache-max-size=4G --dir-cache-time=96h --timeout 1h --attr-timeout=1s --log-level INFO

 

You create a folder with emby permission, but once mounted it will get the mount permission as you have inside.

You can change after the mount the permissions with: chown -R emby:emby /path/to/your/mount

[Rafa-RHCP 0]

Indeed sound like a permission issue.

 

A basic mount command can be:

rclone mount thedrive_from_config: /path/to/your/mount --config=/path/to/your/config/rclone.conf --allow-other --dir-cache-time 48h --vfs-cache-max-age 48h --vfs-read-chunk-size 10M --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 512M --buffer-size 512M --syslog --umask 002 --allow-non-empty --fast-list --use-mmap --vfs-cache-mode=minimal --vfs-cache-max-size=4G --dir-cache-time=96h --timeout 1h --attr-timeout=1s --log-level INFO

 

You create a folder with emby permission, but once mounted it will get the mount permission as you have inside.

You can change after the mount the permissions with: chown -R emby:emby /path/to/your/mount

 

 

I did as you suggested but nothing different happened. These are the steps i´ve done (commented)

 

root@emby:/home# adduser rclone (created a new user for rclone)

Adding user `rclone' ...

Adding new group `rclone' (1000) ...

Adding new user `rclone' (1000) with group `rclone' ...

Creating home directory `/home/rclone' ...

Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...

Enter new UNIX password:

Retype new UNIX password:

passwd: password updated successfully

Changing the user information for rclone

Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default

        Full Name []:

        Room Number []:

        Work Phone []:

        Home Phone []:

        Other []:

Is the information correct? [Y/n] y

root@emby:/home# ls -l

total 4

drwxr-xr-x 2 rclone rclone 4096 Mar  1 22:03 rclone

root@emby:/home# # adduser rclone sudo (adding rclone user to sudo group)

root@emby:/home# su rclone

rclone@emby:/home$ cd /home/

rclone@emby:/home$ ls -l

total 4

drwxr-xr-x 2 rclone rclone 4096 Mar  1 22:03 rclone (the folder for user rclone has a default permission)

rclone@emby$ su root

Password:

root@emby:/# chown rclone:root rclone (changing rclone group to root)

root@emby:/# chown -R 777 rclone (changing all permissions)

root@emby:/# cd /home/

root@emby:/home# ls -l

total 4

drwxrwxrwx 2 rclone root 4096 Mar  1 22:03 rclone (Note that it kept the permissions i just set)

root@emby:/home# su rclone (running as user rclone)

rclone@emby:/home$ cd /home/rclone

rclone@emby:~$ mkdir GDrive (creating a mounting folder)

rclone@emby:~$ chmod -R 777 GDrive (giving it full access)

rclone@emby:~$ ls -l

total 4

root@emby:/home/rclone# nohup rclone mount GDrive: /home/rclone/Gdrive --allow-non-empty --config=/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --allow-other --dir-cache-time 48h --vfs-cache-max-age 48h --vfs-read-chunk-size 10M --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 512M --buffer-size 512M --syslog --umask 002 --allow-non-empty --fast-list --use-mmap --vfs-cache-mode=minimal --vfs-cache-max-size=4G --dir-cache-time=96h --timeout 1h --attr-timeout=1s --log-level INFO (run the command @@shocker suggested but just added  --allow-non-empty)

root@emby:/home/rclone# cd /home/rclone/GDrive/

root@emby:/home/rclone/GDrive# ls -l

total 0 (It didn´t work)

root@emby:/home/rclone/GDrive# nohup rclone mount GDrive: /home/rclone/GDrive --allow-non-empty &

[1] 1270

root@emby:/home/rclone/GDrive# nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out' (Worked now)

root@emby:/home/rclone/GDrive# cd /home/rclone/GDrive/

root@emby:/home/rclone/GDrive# ls -l

total 64226

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   241396 Jan 17 00:16 'MOVIES' (Mount permission is only for root now)

root@emby:/home/rclone/GDrive# su rclone (logged as user rclone now)

rclone@emby:~/GDrive$ cd /home/rclone/

rclone@emby:~$ ls -l (checking permissions)

ls: cannot access 'GDrive': Permission denied (WTF!!!)

total 4

d????????? ? ?      ?        ?            ? GDrive

[Rafa-RHCP 0]

These are the steps i performed:

 

>I create a new droplet with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS on a VPS by DigitalOcean. This droplet is simple and didn´t use any special features but the defaults.

 

>All repositories were updated using

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get autoremove -y -y

 

>Then i downloaded Emby Server and ran dpkg -i emby-server-deb_4.3.1.0_amd64.deb

 

>Emby user was "emby"

 

>Rclone was installed with 

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

 

> Run rclone config and created a New remote for Google Drive called "GDrive"

 

> Created a new user named rclone and gave it full permissions

 

> Inside /home/rclone i created GDrive folder with full permissions

 

>Logged as root I ran nohup rclone mount GDrive: /home/rclone/GDrive --allow-non-empty &

 

>Emby stills not showing the beyond /home/rclone when looking out folders

 

 

PS: Rclone and Emby were installed as root but i´m unable to run them and mount Rclone using another user. I also believe the issue is not on Emby but on RClone mounting permissions but I really believe someone here had this problem before and this information can be useful

[Rafa-RHCP 0]

UPDATE:

 

I could run Rclone mounting as common user rclone (non-root) and it loaded Google Drive files but i´m still unable to see the directories under /home/rclone through Emby. In GDrive folder its permissions are

 

drwxrwxr-x 1 rclone rclone        0 Aug  9  2019

 

I also used the same strategy @@Polonha did by changing "emby" service account to rclone group but stills not working

 

 

That´s the latest log I got from Emby

 

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/home/rclone/GDrive' is denied. ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied
     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
     at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator`1.CreateDirectoryHandle(String path, Boolean ignoreNotFound)
     at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator`1..ctor(String directory, EnumerationOptions options)
     at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerable`1..ctor(String directory, FindTransform transform, EnumerationOptions options)
     at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerableFactory.FileSystemInfos(String directory, String expression, EnumerationOptions options)
     at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.InternalEnumerateInfos(String path, String searchPattern, SearchTarget searchTarget, EnumerationOptions options)
     at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.EnumerateFileSystemInfos(String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
     at Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.ManagedFileSystem.GetFileSystemEntries(String path, Boolean recursive)
     at MediaBrowser.Api.EnvironmentService.GetFileSystemEntries(GetDirectoryContents request)
     at MediaBrowser.Api.EnvironmentService.Get(GetDirectoryContents request)
     at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceController.Execute(HttpListenerHost appHost, Object requestDto, IRequest req)
     at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceHandler.ProcessRequestAsync(HttpListenerHost appHost, IRequest httpReq, IResponse httpRes, RestPath restPath, String responseContentType, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
     at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.HttpListenerHost.RequestHandler(IRequest httpReq, ReadOnlyMemory`1 urlString, ReadOnlyMemory`1 localPath, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    Source: System.IO.FileSystem
    TargetSite: IntPtr CreateDirectoryHandle(System.String, Boolean)
    InnerException: System.IO.IOException: Permission denied
    Source:
    TargetSite:

 

 

Does anyone have further suggestions?

Edited March 2, 2020 by Rafa-RHCP