11.2 Questions

[indivision]

It looks like learning the new GUI is going to take some time. In the meantime, it would be great to get the basics working.

Is anyone up to making an updated guide for: Installing Plex on a blank jail in 11.2

It also isn't clear how to change a jail to use a specific IP address. Or, where to get the mac address it is using from the GUI.

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

It looks like learning the new GUI is going to take some time.

Im praying they see sense and drop it and stick with the old/current one (or at least let us keep using the old one forever). I used a Syento system a few years ago and although their appliance web UI looked cool the most basic of tasks either couldn't be performed or were really hard to figure out because they were trying to make everything simple and one click. It appears FreeNAS is being taken down the same road. I except the old/current FreeNAS UI wouldn't win any beauty contests but its functional. However perhaps its just me and I just don't like change ;)

 

[indivision]

Im praying they see sense and drop it and stick with the old/current one (or at least let us keep using the old one forever). I used a Syento system a few years ago and although their appliance web UI looked cool the most basic of tasks either couldn't be performed or were really hard to figure out because they were trying to make everything simple and one click. It appears FreeNAS is being taken down the same road. I except the old/current FreeNAS UI wouldn't win any beauty contests but its functional. However perhaps its just me and I just don't like change ;)

I think the UI is way over-due for an update. So, I like to see a step in that direction (again). It can look cool and be just as functional or even more functional. I hate to point it out. But, recently worked on a friend's Synology server. It isn't sexy looking and it doesn't have the ZFS advantages (that I could see). But, it is really well organized and "just works". Many of the tasks that commonly require jumping into shell on FreeNAS were simple GUI options in their front-end.

In the short term, the blog post that announced 11.2 recommended switching to 11.2 for plex users and to re-build plug-ins. But, the path to doing that isn't very clear. For example, it's unclear even how to set which IP address a jail should use. So, even if I wanted a purely vanilla plugin install, I can't do that without causing the installs to be on new IP addresses, throwing off every device in the house.

I think I see where IP address is supposed to be set. But, it's using terminology that I'm not familiar with and strange error/options handling in that section. It appears like a case where advanced IP options are too up front and interfere with the more common use of those settings.

There doesn't appear to be a "paste" option in the new GUI shell either...

 

[danb35]

Is anyone up to making an updated guide for: Installing Plex on a blank jail in 11.2

You've already been pointed here in the other thread: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...lidarr-jackett-ombi-transmission-organizr.58/
The technique is identical in 11.2.

There doesn't appear to be a "paste" option in the new GUI shell either...

Right click, paste. Or Command-V. Or "for heaven's sake, you shouldn't be using that thing in the first place, just turn on SSH".

 

[kdragon75]

for heaven's sake, you shouldn't be using that thing in the first place, just turn on SSH

Thank you!
And if you don't know how to ssh from Windows.... https://www.putty.org/
No more spoons!

 

[danb35]

And if you don't know how to ssh from Windows.... https://www.putty.org/

I hear Bitvise is well-regarded as well.

 

[NasKar]

Im praying they see sense and drop it and stick with the old/current one (or at least let us keep using the old one forever). I used a Syento system a few years ago and although their appliance web UI looked cool the most basic of tasks either couldn't be performed or were really hard to figure out because they were trying to make everything simple and one click. It appears FreeNAS is being taken down the same road. I except the old/current FreeNAS UI wouldn't win any beauty contests but its functional. However perhaps its just me and I just don't like change ;)

I agree. The old interface is clear and easy to find the different options. I recently took 11.2 for a spin in a VM and couldn't get it working till I went back to the old GUI. Hopefully it will be an option going forward.

 

[indivision]

You've already been pointed here in the other thread: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...lidarr-jackett-ombi-transmission-organizr.58/
The technique is identical in 11.2.

Right click, paste. Or Command-V. Or "for heaven's sake, you shouldn't be using that thing in the first place, just turn on SSH".

Thank you.

Right click, paste and Ctrl-V doesn't work (chrome on Windows 10). BUT, clicking paste in the browser dropdown did work. The "paste" button the old GUI used was convenient because you could make final edits there.

I gave the above link a shot. But, it fails due to a VNET error. I am probably not filling in the blanks quite right. Any ideas?

Code:

[root@mdat ~]# echo '{"pkgs":["plexmediaserver-plexpass","ca_root_nss"]}' > /tmp/pkg.json
[root@mdat ~]# iocage create -n "plex" -p /tmp/pkg.json -r 11.2-RELEASE ip4_addr="vnet0|192.168.0.117" defaultrouter="255.255.255.0" vnet="on" allow_raw_sockets="1" boot="on"
plex successfully created!

Stopped plex due to VNET failure
[root@mdat ~]# rm /tmp/pkg.json
[root@mdat ~]# iocage fstab -a plex /mnt/tank1/apps/plex /config nullfs rw 0 0
Successfully added mount to plex's fstab
[root@mdat ~]# iocage fstab -a plex /mnt/tank1/video /mnt/video nullfs ro 0 0
Successfully added mount to plex's fstab
[root@mdat ~]# iocage exec plex chown -R plex:plex /config
plex is not running, starting jail
jail: mount.fstab: /mnt/iocage/jails/plex/root/config: No such file or directory

[root@mdat ~]# iocage exec plex sysrc "plexmediaserver_plexpass_enable=YES"
plex is not running, starting jail
jail: mount.fstab: /mnt/iocage/jails/plex/root/config: No such file or directory

[root@mdat ~]# iocage exec plex sysrc plexmediaserver_plexpass_support_path="/config"
plex is not running, starting jail
jail: mount.fstab: /mnt/iocage/jails/plex/root/config: No such file or directory

[root@mdat ~]# iocage exec plex service plexmediaserver_plexpass start

 

[8-bit Yoda]

defaultrouter="255.255.255.0"

defaultrouter should be the IP-address of your router, not the subnet mask

 

[kdragon75]

defaultrouter="255.255.255.0"

Thats teh netmas not your default route. the default route should be your gateway or for most home users your router i.e. 192.168.1.1

 

[kdragon75]

defaultrouter should be the IP-address of your router, not the subnet mask

Beat me to it!

 

[danb35]

ip4_addr="vnet0|192.168.0.117"

...and with the others pointing out that you've put the netmask in as the router, here's where it should have been. This should read ip4_addr="vnet0|192.168.0.117/24".

 

[danb35]

Im praying they see sense and drop it and stick with the old/current one

Here we go again...

 

[kdragon75]

Thank you. I haven't seen that. I think it would help to make another category called "Guides".



It looks like I have set it up with the correct IP address now. They should pre-populate (or hide if possible as advanced setup) the IPv4 interface and IPv4 Netmask dropdowns in the add jail wizard.

The pkg command is working this time. Thank you. I did that before and it gave an error. Something about not having the repos set up or available. This probably had to do with the network settings being off.

If only I had a ban hammer.

 

[indivision]

...and with the others pointing out that you've put the netmask in as the router, here's where it should have been. This should read ip4_addr="vnet0|192.168.0.117/24".

Thank you. Plex is now up and running. I set up the different repo so I can get the latest updates.

But, what is the command needed to check for and install updates?

I used to use this from the jail shell:

Code:

pkg update && pkg upgrade multimedia/plexmediaserver-plexpass

Would that still work the same?

If only I had a ban hammer.

Please elaborate.

 

[danb35]

But, what is the command needed to check for and install updates?

pkg upgrade

 

[kdragon75]

pkg upgrade

Is it just pkg upgrade? I know apt you should do an update to update the repo version list first.

 

[danb35]

Is it just pkg upgrade? I know apt you should do an update to update the repo version list first.

Pkg isn’t apt. Yes, just pkg upgrade is fine.

 

[kdragon75]

Old habits.

 

[indivision]

pkg upgrade

Thank you.

Now, when I try to open the jails shell, I get this error and it goes down:

Code:

mount_nullfs: /mnt/tank1: No such file or directory
jail: /sbin/mount -t nullfs -o rw /mnt/tank1/apps/plex /mnt/iocage/jails/plex/root/config: failed

It sounds like the guide code was setting up placeholder mount points for external storage locations? Or, is this another issue?