Emby server crashed while watching a movie it had to transcode, now it won't start

[marktaff 14]

After it crashed, the admin interface was blank with just a'waiting' animation--restarting from there had no effect at all. I closed the browser tab, then reloaded it, and it wouldn't accept my login credentials.

I tried `service emby-server restart'.  Status shows a core dump due to no free space. Everything has oodles of space left, except for /, which has about 3GiB freespace, but sure that is enough?

root@columbia:/root> service emby-server status
● emby-server.service - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/emby-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Thu 2020-07-09 19:57:03 CDT; 6s ago
 Process: 12978 ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Main PID: 12978 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)

Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]: Unhandled exception. System.IO.IOException: No space left on device
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]:    at System.IO.FileStream.WriteNative(ReadOnlySpan`1 source)
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]:    at System.IO.FileStream.FlushWriteBuffer()
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]:    at System.IO.FileStream.FlushInternalBuffer()
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]:    at System.IO.FileStream.Flush(Boolean flushToDisk)
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.FileLogger.Dispose()
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]:    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Logging.SimpleLogManager.Dispose()
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia emby-server[12978]:    at EmbyServer.Program.Main(String[] args)
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Jul 09 19:57:03 columbia systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.

 

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

ETA1: Hmm. `df' shows root is full, while KDE disk manager shows the 3GiB freespace.

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Edited July 10, 2020 by marktaff
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[Happy2Play 9780]

I don't personally have experience with this OS but have you run out of hard drive space?

Unhandled exception. System.IO.IOException: No space left on device

Is your transcoding folder full?

[marktaff 14]

12 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

I don't personally have experience with this OS but have you run out of hard drive space?

Unhandled exception. System.IO.IOException: No space left on device

Is your transcoding folder full?

I've dug into it some more, and emby is using 22+ GiB on /, including 2.5GiB in transcoding, and 19GiB in metadata.  / is only 48GiB in total, so, that was a poor choice on my part.

I'm going to have to resize root, or rebuild the server so I can reallocate 100GiB from /home.

Any suggestions on what I can delete temporarily to tide me over, especially to ensure emby will start if I give it some room?

[marktaff 14]

I was able to free up 1.2GiB from my OS /tmp folder, and emby restarted.  All is good, except for the whole having to rebuild the server bit.

Thanks for your help.

[Luke 42079]

Thanks for the feedback.