Emby plugin dead after upgrade to 12.0

[HAXIS]

Hi all,

Hope someone can help as I'm stumped.

I ran the update from FreeNAS 11.something to TrueNAS 12.0 stable last week, but my Emby plugin has since been completely inoperable.

It reports:

Version: 4.2.1.0_1
Plugin: emby
Release: 11.2-RELEASE-p15

I assume from what I've read that that 11.2 is the problem.

At system boot, the plugin is down. Whenever I try to Start it, it simply does nothing. I click the Update button on the plugin and it returns Error: Major ABI change detected, please run 'upgrade' instead.

A number of other users have described similar problems with Emby and other plugins, and have fixed their issues with iocage upgrade, update and/or fetch commands - but I'm having absolutely zero luck. Notably, iocage upgrade -r 12.0-RELEASE emby tells me:

[...]
Running upgrade...
emby is not running, starting jail

Command output:
emby is not running, starting jail

Command output:
etcupdate failed! Rolling back snapshot!

And at that point I haven't the foggiest idea what to try next. Help, in the simplest terms possible, would be much appreciated!

 

[sretalla]

You can try this:
iocage upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE emby

Restart the jail

Then in the jail console (iocage console emby), run:
pkg upgrade

Restart the jail.

You may have trouble doing any of those steps if the jail won't even start though.

You may need to boot to your 11.something version, update the jail (11.3-RELEASE in that case), then try again in 12

 

[HAXIS]

Thanks sretalla. Indeed it won't start at all so can't do that. :(

I've now booted back into FreeNAS-11.3-U4.1 and the Emby plugin runs again.

But when I click update, or issue any of the shell commands to attempt to upgrade the plugin's jail, I get this error: A plugin manifest matching Emby could not be found!

Any ideas?

 

[gwaitsi]

You can try this:
iocage upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE emby

Restart the jail

Then in the jail console (iocage console emby), run:
pkg upgrade

Restart the jail.

You may have trouble doing any of those steps if the jail won't even start though.

You may need to boot to your 11.something version, update the jail (11.3-RELEASE in that case), then try again in 12

I keep getting the emby plugin failing after upgrades from 11.x and now 12.x.
I tried both plugins, and the same thing has happened.
when i run the pkg upgrade i keep getting lui script failed (same like in the gui), but now i can it says at the end

branch 12.2-release does not exist at github.freenas/iocage-plugin-emby.git
looking there, i don't see the chia plugin, so i guess there is a separate github for truenas but can't find it.

can't i simply change the pointer to get emby to upgrade, so i don't lose my setup?

 

[sretalla]

Separate your data out of the jail to its own "emby_config" dataset.

Create a new jail with the right version and mount the dataset back to it.

Bonus there being that you can easily re-create a jail in future without worrying about losing your data.

 

[gwaitsi]

Separate your data out of the jail to its own "emby_config" dataset.

Create a new jail with the right version and mount the dataset back to it.

Bonus there being that you can easily re-create a jail in future without worrying about losing your data.

The media is not in the jail, but you still then have to re-import, scan and fix all the ones without grpahics, etc.

probably going back to OMV i think;
- it support zfs (i've invested in the hardware now)
- it has a one button system backup function
- it has a usb automounter, backup, dismounter to handle offsight backups.
- more native plugins and docker support.
- plus it is on linux, so easier to get more supported plugins and/or docker.

now i just need to get my old system up temporarily to test moving the replicated pool to OMV. I think i will separate the nas in a proxmox virutal machine and keeps the applications servers separate. can't say these jails have been a great experience

 

[gwaitsi]

The media is not in the jail, but you still then have to re-import, scan and fix all the ones without grpahics, etc.

Probably going back to OMV i think;
- it support zfs (i've invested in the hardware now)
- it has a one button system backup function
- it has a usb automounter, backup, dismounter to handle offsight backups.
- more native plugins and docker support.
- plus it is on linux, so easier to get more supported plugins and/or docker.

now i just need to get my old system up temporarily to test moving the replicated pool to OMV. I think i will separate the nas in a proxmox virutal machine and keeps the applications servers separate. can't say these jails have been a great experience

I managed to get it back with

TrueNAS and Emby

I just upgraded to TrueNAS and I don't see emby on the plugins list. I was wondering if emby is going to be available on TrueNAS or if I was missing something? I love what you guys do! Thanks!

emby.media

iocage console EMBY JAIL NAME HERE
service emby-server stop
pkg update
pkg upgrade
pkg install -f DEPENDENCIES LISTED ON https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html
pkg add -f LINK TO VERSION OF EMBY TAKEN FROM https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/
service emby-server start
exit

but i still think i will chart a course to proxmox and run the nas from within that to separate the applications from dependency on the nas.
shame rockstor is not supporting zfs. but this approach will also make it easier to move between nas providers in the future too.