PlexMediaServer from OME fails to install after uninstall

  • Hello,


    Making progress on my setup and I'm down to 2 issues, the first relates to Plex.


    After initially adding Plex from OMV Extra's I realised I had some permissions issues preventing Plex scanning my media - so I removed Plex and set about removing my SMB and Shared Folders to effectively start again using a thread I found here


    The uninstall failed, but I made the mistake of installing again and received this error;


    Reading package lists...
    Building dependency tree...
    Reading state information...
    The following additional packages will be installed:
    plexmediaserver
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
    openmediavault-plexmediaserver plexmediaserver
    0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0 B/103 MB of archives.
    After this operation, 226 MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Selecting previously unselected package plexmediaserver.
    (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5%(Reading database ... 10%(Reading database ... 15%(Reading database ... 20%(Reading database ... 25%(Reading database ... 30%(Reading database ... 35%(Reading database ... 40%(Reading database ... 45%(Reading database ... 50%(Reading database ... 55%(Reading database ... 60%(Reading database ... 65%(Reading database ... 70%(Reading database ... 75%(Reading database ... 80%(Reading database ... 85%(Reading database ... 90%(Reading database ... 95%(Reading database ... 100%(Reading database ... 45884 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver_1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d_amd64.deb ...
    Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d) ...
    Selecting previously unselected package openmediavault-plexmediaserver.
    Preparing to unpack .../openmediavault-plexmediaserver_3.8.2_all.deb ...
    Unpacking openmediavault-plexmediaserver (3.8.2) ...
    Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
    Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u4) ...
    Processing triggers for openmediavault (4.1.12) ...
    Restarting engine daemon ...
    Setting up plexmediaserver (1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d) ...
    Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service -> /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.
    Job for plexmediaserver.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
    See "systemctl status plexmediaserver.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
    dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--configure):
    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openmediavault-plexmediaserver:
    openmediavault-plexmediaserver depends on plexmediaserver | plexmediaserver-installer; however:
    Package plexmediaserver is not configured yet.
    Package plexmediaserver-installer is not installed.


    dpkg: error processing package openmediavault-plexmediaserver (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    plexmediaserver
    openmediavault-plexmediaserver


    >>> *************** Error ***************


    I then attempted to uninstall from SSH which seemed to work (certainly cleared up the bad references to the services on the menus) using 'apt-get remove openmediavault-plexmediaserver plexmediaserver' but now if I install I get the error above over and over and I''m stuck as to what's wrong.


    Appreciate any pointers here - clearly some dependency is not happy?


    Regards
    Dan

  • Hi Dan


    Try looking for errors in /var/log/apt/term.log, /var/log/apt/history.log,


    it might indicate what extra clean up is required.


    Plex logs here: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Logs/


    but probably not got that far but useful for later debugging

  • Thanks Phil,


    Appreciate the reply.


    I just this minute managed to get it to install again I found this post HERE


    and the following worked;
    1) apt-get purge openmediavault-plexmediaserver plexmediaserver
    2) rm -rf /var/lib/plexmediaserver/
    3) userdel plex
    4) groupdel plex


    With GUI install after. Steps 3 and 4 turned up no results and since I believe I tried the apt-get purge it must have been the /var/lib/plexmediaserver/ removal that helped :)


    Cheers

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