plex doesn't work

[itskando]

I previously posted with delusions of knowing the source of the issue.

I ate some humble pie and learned not to assume I knew the source of the problem, and
to turn off debug and verbose logging before posting the log.

Plex is able to see my jail-mounted media-dataset library.
It cannot play anything sufficiently large (which thus requires transcoding).
[This has thus far included HD and SD files, all of which have 5.1 or AC3 audio.]

I have tested fileson a Roku 3 and the Plex web client on macOS:Chrome.

.

Here is the Plex Media Server log:

Show : Log: Plex Media Server

Code:

Nov 09, 2018 18:10:58.783 [0x80a6c9000] INFO - Plex Media Server v1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d - FreeBSD PC amd64 - build: freebsd-x86_64 freebsd - GMT -05:00
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:58.794 [0x80a6c9000] ERROR - Failed to determine system locale: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid. Defaulting to en-US.
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:58.794 [0x80a6c9000] INFO - FreeBSD version: 11.2-STABLE (FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE #0 r325575+97f4f541349(freenas/11.2-stable): Wed Oct 17 18:06:49 EDT 2018	 root@nemesis.tn.ixsystems.com:/freenas-11.2-releng/freenas/_BE/objs/freenas-11.2-releng/freenas/_BE/os/sys/FreeNAS.amd64), language: en-US
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:58.794 [0x80a6c9000] INFO - Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:58.794 [0x80a6c9000] INFO - /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver/Plex_Media_Server
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:58.617 [0x80a616000] WARN - Default locale is invalid; falling back on classic+UTF-8
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:58.901 [0x80a616000] INFO - SQLITE3:0x10, 283, recovered 1000 frames from WAL file /usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-wal
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:59.017 [0x80a616000] INFO - SQLITE3:0x10, 283, recovered 312 frames from WAL file /usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-wal
Nov 09, 2018 18:10:59.148 [0x80a616000] INFO - OCSP: Successfully retrieved response from cache.
Nov 09, 2018 18:11:02.978 [0x80b09ec00] INFO - Refreshing paths watched by LibraryUpdateManager
Nov 09, 2018 18:11:03.233 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Sync: Couldn't get sync lists without subscription.
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:16.859 [0x80bc41400] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:16.859 [0x80b1db500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:17.334 [0x80bc40500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:23.651 [0x80bc40500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:25.616 [0x80bc41400] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:57.208 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:57.315 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:57.498 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:57.605 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:57.692 [0x80bc41900] ERROR - Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-115ddb4395b2a36acaa2dc7e730fab80-31935246-16e8-4950-b575-96829989ded6/media-00011.ts")
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:57.759 [0x80c333900] WARN - Got a request to stop a transcode session without a session GUID (or with an invalid one).
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:57.798 [0x80b1db500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:58.069 [0x80b09dd00] WARN - Got a request to stop a transcode session without a session GUID (or with an invalid one).
Nov 09, 2018 18:15:58.741 [0x80b1db500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:29.484 [0x80bc41400] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:29.591 [0x80bc41400] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:29.747 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:29.849 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:29.979 [0x80bc41900] ERROR - Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-115ddb4395b2a36acaa2dc7e730fab80-c1bb9505-833b-4e82-abe7-d7da0ad8bdbd/media-00120.ts")
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:29.988 [0x80d273500] ERROR - Transcoder: Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-115ddb4395b2a36acaa2dc7e730fab80-c1bb9505-833b-4e82-abe7-d7da0ad8bdbd/media-00116.ts")
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:30.034 [0x80d051f00] WARN - Got a request to stop a transcode session without a session GUID (or with an invalid one).
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:30.073 [0x80b1db500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:30.328 [0x80d052900] WARN - Got a request to stop a transcode session without a session GUID (or with an invalid one).
Nov 09, 2018 18:16:30.971 [0x80bc41400] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:01.629 [0x80bc41400] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:01.736 [0x80bc41400] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:01.911 [0x80bc40500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:02.018 [0x80bc40500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:02.102 [0x80b09ce00] ERROR - Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-115ddb4395b2a36acaa2dc7e730fab80-96257f88-ffab-4a9c-a5fe-d05c3c2bf393/media-00125.ts")
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:02.169 [0x80d273500] WARN - Got a request to stop a transcode session without a session GUID (or with an invalid one).
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:02.205 [0x80b1db500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:02.513 [0x80d051f00] WARN - Got a request to stop a transcode session without a session GUID (or with an invalid one).
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:03.033 [0x80bc40500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:33.775 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:33.882 [0x80b1db500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:34.045 [0x80bc41400] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:34.152 [0x80bc41400] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:34.291 [0x80bc41900] ERROR - Transcoder: Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-115ddb4395b2a36acaa2dc7e730fab80-89f62d44-3db0-4b8d-9482-715d44a123d8/media-00181.ts")
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:34.294 [0x80b42d000] ERROR - Transcoder: Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/usr/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-115ddb4395b2a36acaa2dc7e730fab80-89f62d44-3db0-4b8d-9482-715d44a123d8/media-00198.ts")
Nov 09, 2018 18:17:34.498 [0x80b1db500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 09, 2018 18:33:53.722 [0x80a616000] WARN - Timed out waiting for server to finish.

It may be telling (to the right eyes).

.

Here are the Plex jail parameters:

Show : Jail Properties: Plex

Show : Properties: Basic

Show : Properties: Jail 1/2

Show : Properties: Jail 2/2

Show : Properties: Network

Show : Properties: Custom

(If anyone offers a CLI command to get all of these parameters in text format, I'll swap the photos out : j )

(I also played around with this beforehand since something similar was mentioned here. Not sure that it was necessary.)

 

[Jailer]

Hardware specs?

 

[itskando]

Hardware specs?

- Was read in Strong Bad's voice.

They seem like they should be fine.

PCPartPicker :
Motherboard: Supermicro - X10SLL-F Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 (Passmark: 9626)
RAM: 16 GB (2 x [8GB - Crucial CT102472BD160B])
Storage: 2x [32GB Flash Drive - SanDisk UltraFit] - Mirror (for freeNAS OS)
Storage: 2x [4TB HDD - WD Red] - Mirror
Enclosure: Fractal Design - Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Cooling: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Power Supply: SeaSonic - G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

[mbotto]

Hello,

I have the exact same problem. Just installed FreeNAS 11.2-RC1 yesterday, got working all the basic things and I thought to give plex a try. Install is OK, and I can add library (jail-mounted dataset), videos gets scanned and thumbnail generated. But I can't play anything ... I just get the spinning wheel. Tried on Ubuntu Chrome webapp, Windows Chrome webapp as well as on Philips Android plex app.

I see plex transcoder going nuts on eating all available cores on the server like

264M 150M CPU11 11 1:55 480.02% Plex Transcoder
264M 150M CPU6 11 1:55 1080.02% Plex Transcoder

This is a very decent server:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz (8 cores + HTT)


96 GB RAM

I'm attaching the plex server logs (looks exactly the same as the ones from itskando).

Code:

Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.616 [0x80a6c8000] INFO - Plex Media Server v1.13.8.5395-10d48da0d - FreeBSD PC amd64 - build: freebsd-x86_64 freebsd - GMT 01:00
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.618 [0x80a6c8000] ERROR - Failed to determine system locale: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid. Defaulting to en-US.
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.618 [0x80a6c8000] INFO - FreeBSD version: 11.2-STABLE (FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE #0 r325575+97f4f541349(freenas/11.2-stable): Wed Oct 17 18:06:49 EDT 2018	 root@nemesis.tn.ixsystems.com:/freenas-11.2-releng/freenas/_BE/objs/freenas-11.2-releng/freenas/_BE/os/sys/FreeNAS.amd64), language: en-US
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.618 [0x80a6c8000] INFO - Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.618 [0x80a6c8000] INFO - /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver/Plex_Media_Server
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.607 [0x80a616000] WARN - Default locale is invalid; falling back on classic+UTF-8
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.621 [0x80a616000] INFO - SQLITE3:0x10, 283, recovered 48 frames from WAL file /Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-wal
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.691 [0x80a616000] INFO - SQLITE3:0x10, 283, recovered 312 frames from WAL file /Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-wal
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.711 [0x80a616000] ERROR - Error opening file '"/Plex Media Server/Cache/OCSP/main.der"' - No such file or directory (2)
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.825 [0x80b06df00] ERROR - OCSP: response error: unauthorized.
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:32.825 [0x80b06df00] INFO - OCSP: couldn't fetch a valid response; retrying in 10800 seconds
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:35.364 [0x80b070200] INFO - Refreshing paths watched by LibraryUpdateManager
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:35.571 [0x80b071b00] WARN - Sync: Couldn't get sync lists without subscription.
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:47.368 [0x80b62d000] ERROR - NAT: PMP::getPublicIP, couldn't initialize: -3:Unable to get Gateway
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:47.545 [0x80b06df00] ERROR - NAT: PMP, map, couldn't initialize: -3:Unable to get Gateway
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:48.282 [0x80d273000] ERROR - [PlexRelay] kex protocol error: type 7 seq 11
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:48.500 [0x80d273000] INFO - [PlexRelay] Allocated port 28237 for remote forward to localhost:32401
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:52.550 [0x80b06ee00] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:56.740 [0x80bc47500] ERROR - Extras: Preroll file didn't exist or couldn't be read: ''.
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:59.839 [0x80f013500] ERROR - NAT: PMP::getPublicIP, couldn't initialize: -3:Unable to get Gateway
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:59.846 [0x80d273000] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:59.846 [0x80bc47500] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 10, 2018 14:22:59.851 [0x80bc47500] INFO - CodecManager: obtaining decoder 'mp3'
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:01.017 [0x80af01700] WARN - PubSub: Received notifyConnectivity event with incorrect async identifier (40d37cc8-5941-4e9c-b586-44b2a3e6c121, expected c3bde9ce-8a7f-4b5a-84bf-4e6541be81b1)
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:01.930 [0x80af01c00] WARN - PubSub: Received notifyConnectivity event with incorrect async identifier (e017a3f1-41b4-4b1d-99a5-d3066e96dd4e, expected 9b14555b-87b0-45cb-9193-bf9381aa1ed2)
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:02.305 [0x80af01c00] WARN - PubSub: Received notifyConnectivity event with incorrect async identifier (8c4cc0c0-661e-4dfe-8ac6-ef0657d85aae, expected 534ed85b-132e-4d64-86d5-9eb9f8fa0fe2)
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:02.306 [0x80af01c00] WARN - PubSub: Received notifyConnectivity event with incorrect async identifier (d16f7379-3907-46af-abdc-ee113ae3d196, expected 534ed85b-132e-4d64-86d5-9eb9f8fa0fe2)
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:02.306 [0x80af01c00] WARN - PubSub: Received notifyConnectivity event with incorrect async identifier (c3bde9ce-8a7f-4b5a-84bf-4e6541be81b1, expected 534ed85b-132e-4d64-86d5-9eb9f8fa0fe2)
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:02.306 [0x80af01c00] WARN - PubSub: Received notifyConnectivity event with incorrect async identifier (bb1ef857-c25f-4593-b6ed-03ab39f5f1cc, expected 534ed85b-132e-4d64-86d5-9eb9f8fa0fe2)
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:02.306 [0x80af01c00] WARN - PubSub: Received notifyConnectivity event with incorrect async identifier (9b14555b-87b0-45cb-9193-bf9381aa1ed2, expected 534ed85b-132e-4d64-86d5-9eb9f8fa0fe2)
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:12.231 [0x80d273000] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:12.235 [0x80bc48400] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:12.338 [0x80d273000] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:12.342 [0x80bc48400] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:13.424 [0x80bc48400] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:13.449 [0x80d273000] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:13.527 [0x80bc48400] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:13.556 [0x80d273000] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:14.573 [0x80d273000] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:14.673 [0x80d273000] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:15.823 [0x80d273000] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:15.929 [0x80d273000] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:17.602 [0x80d273000] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:17.709 [0x80d273000] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:20.906 [0x80d273000] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:21.012 [0x80d273000] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:21.901 [0x80b071b00] ERROR - Transcoder: Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-zdgdu01jimsdv1ms5jce65c7-5ef69cc6-98af-48bd-9863-5fa838f55f83/chunk-stream0-00003.m4s")
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:28.079 [0x80d053800] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:30.114 [0x80af00800] ERROR - Extras: Preroll file didn't exist or couldn't be read: ''.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:30.194 [0x80d273000] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:30.259 [0x80d273000] ERROR - Error response for update:  ().
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:30.263 [0x80d273000] INFO - CodecManager: obtaining decoder 'wmav2'
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:44.324 [0x80bc47f00] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:44.333 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:44.431 [0x80bc47f00] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:44.434 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:45.543 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:45.649 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:45.727 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:45.834 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:47.021 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:47.127 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:48.129 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:48.230 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:51.744 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:51.850 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:53.866 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:23:53.966 [0x80bc47500] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:03.611 [0x80bc48900] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:03.716 [0x80bc48900] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:04.403 [0x80d051f00] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:04.510 [0x80d051f00] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:12.722 [0x80bc48900] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:12.826 [0x80bc48900] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:15.093 [0x80bc48900] WARN - Transcode runner appears to have died.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:15.194 [0x80bc48900] WARN - Timed out waiting for segment.
Nov 10, 2018 14:24:15.808 [0x80bc48400] ERROR - Failed to delete session directory (boost::filesystem::remove: No such file or directory: "/Plex Media Server/Cache/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-80rglrbnbq63g6lnbwjr2mao-d0f439fa-32a2-44ba-a845-c27c0d011266/chunk-stream0-00024.m4s")

Any help would be appreciated, I would really like to get this running.

 

[Wolfeman0101]

Having the exact same issue.

 

[itskando]

Having the exact same issue.

Please post your logs too;
this can be of great help to
anyone looking to help all of us : j

If you're unsure how; it's pretty easy -
see the section on Easily Gather Logs on this Plex documentation webpage
to get a .zip file of all of the logs.

 

[mbotto]

btw: I've also upgraded plex to the latest version (using this script, just slightly modifying it since I have regular plex w/o plexpass), but the issue is still exactly the same.

 

[itskando]

I have the exact same problem.

Having the exact same issue.

Is your media server connected to your Plex player via ethernet or via wifi?

[Edit: Tried with a wired connection. No help.]

 

[j0hnby]

Evening

You can ping in and out of the jail right? And you have checked the permissions on the specified transcode folders? I know mine played merry hell when I had the permissions set incorrectly.

J

 

[itskando]

You can ping in and out of the jail right?

Code:

[root@Deetz ~]# jls
   JID  IP Address	  Hostname					  Path
	 3  192.168.86.10   plex						  /mnt/Lydia/iocage/jails/plex/root
[root@Deetz ~]# jexec 3 tcsh
root@plex:/ #

And you have checked the permissions on the specified transcode folders?

Show : From the Transit (FTP program)

Code:

/tmp				 is owned by u:plex | g:wheel
/usr				 is owned by u:root | g:wheel
  except contents of
/usr/local/plexdata/ is owned by u:plex | g:972

 

[itskando]

The guy from the below quote posted about
some potenially useful iocage commands here
(which I actually found through the plex forums).

Here is the contents of "iocage list" and "iocage get all plex_jail"

Here's my results:

Code:

[root@Deetz ~]# iocage list
+-----+------+-------+--------------+---------------+
| JID | NAME | STATE |   RELEASE	|	  IP4	  |
+=====+======+=======+==============+===============+
| 3   | plex | up	| 11.2-RELEASE | 192.168.86.10 |
+-----+------+-------+--------------+---------------+

Code:

[root@Deetz ~]# iocage get all plex
CONFIG_VERSION:14
allow_chflags:0allow_mlock:0
allow_mount:0
allow_mount_devfs:0
allow_mount_nullfs:0
allow_mount_procfs:0
allow_mount_tmpfs:0
allow_mount_zfs:0
allow_quotas:0
allow_raw_sockets:0
allow_set_hostname:1
allow_socket_af:0
allow_sysvipc:0
allow_tun:0
available:readonly
basejail:yes
boot:on
bpf:no
children_max:0
cloned_release:11.2-RELEASE
comment:none
compression:lz4
compressratio:readonly
coredumpsize:off
count:1
cpuset:off
cputime:off
datasize:off
dedup:off
defaultrouter:none
defaultrouter6:none
depends:none
devfs_ruleset:4
dhcp:off
enforce_statfs:2
exec_clean:1
exec_fib:0
exec_jail_user:root
exec_poststart:/usr/bin/true
exec_poststop:/usr/bin/true
exec_prestart:/usr/bin/true
exec_prestop:/usr/bin/true
exec_start:/bin/sh /etc/rc
exec_stop:/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown
exec_system_jail_user:0
exec_system_user:root
exec_timeout:60
host_domainname:none
host_hostname:plex
host_hostuuid:plex
host_time:yes
hostid:d3a23a44-8bf2-11e8-badd-0cc47a90dfc3
hostid_strict_check:off
interfaces:vnet0:bridge0
ip4:new
ip4_addr:igb0|192.168.86.10/24
ip4_saddrsel:1
ip6:new
ip6_addr:none
ip6_saddrsel:1
jail_zfs:off
jail_zfs_dataset:iocage/jails/plex/data
jail_zfs_mountpoint:none
last_started:2018-11-13 00:12:09
login_flags:-f root
mac_prefix:02ff60
maxproc:off
memorylocked:off
memoryuse:off
mount_devfs:1
mount_fdescfs:1
mount_linprocfs:0
mount_procfs:0
mountpoint:readonly
msgqqueued:off
msgqsize:off
nmsgq:off
notes:none
nsemop:off
nshm:off
nthr:off
openfiles:off
origin:readonly
owner:root
pcpu:off
priority:99
pseudoterminals:off
quota:none
release:11.2-RELEASE-p4
reservation:none
resolver:/etc/resolv.conf
rlimits:off
securelevel:2
shmsize:off
stacksize:off
state:up
stop_timeout:30
swapuse:off
sync_state:none
sync_target:none
sync_tgt_zpool:none
sysvmsg:new
sysvsem:new
sysvshm:new
template:no
type:pluginv2
used:readonly
vmemoryuse:off
vnet:off
vnet0_mac:none
vnet1_mac:none
vnet2_mac:none
vnet3_mac:none
vnet_default_interface:none
vnet_interfaces:none
wallclock:off

Inside the plex jail:

Code:

[root@Deetz ~]# jls
   JID  IP Address	  Hostname					  Path
	 3  192.168.86.10   plex						  /mnt/Lydia/iocage/jails/pl
ex/root
[root@Deetz ~]# jexec 3 tcsh
root@plex:/ #

Code:

root@plex:/ # ifconfig
em0: flags=8c02<BROADCAST,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
		options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC
>
		ether 0c:c4:7a:90:df:c3
		hwaddr 0c:c4:7a:90:df:c3
		media: Ethernet autoselect
		status: no carrier
igb0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
		options=6403bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
		ether 0c:c4:7a:90:df:c2
		hwaddr 0c:c4:7a:90:df:c2
		inet 192.168.86.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.86.255
		media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
		status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
		options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
		groups: lo

Code:

root@plex:/ # ping 8.8.8.8
ping: ssend socket: Operation not permitted

root@plex:/ # ping www.google.com
ping: ssend socket: Operation not permitted

 

[itskando]

According to this thread:

Code:

## On host ##
iocage stop JAIL
iocage set ip4_addr="vnet0|192.168.100.222/24" vnet="on" boot="on" allow_raw_sockets="1" defaultrouter="192.168.100.1" JAIL
iocage start JAIL
###Then enter the jail and do a quick ping to see if you are getting out##
jls
jexec 7 csh
ping yahoo.com

##Update things##

portsnap fetch update
portmaster -aBd

OR

pkg update && pkg upgrade

##There was a new PMS in the repo##

service plexmediaserver{_plexpass} restart

##Now try playing files and or fetching metadata##

Just change your appropriate IP scheme and jail names where applicable.

So, I made changes:

Code:

iocage stop plex
iocage set ip4_addr="vnet0|192.168.86.10/24" vnet="on" boot="on" allow_raw_sockets="1" defaultrouter="192.168.86.1" plex

This failed to terminate+execute;
the enter key just kept creating newlines,
so I had to refresh the shell and start over.

(Anyone know why that happened? I couldn't figure out.)

Code:

iocage stop plex

iocage set ip4_addr="vnet0|192.168.86.10/24" plex
iocage set vnet="on" plex
iocage set boot="on" plex
iocage set allow_raw_sockets="1" plex
iocage set defaultrouter="192.168.86.1" plex

iocage start plex

Then, in plex jail (as detailed in previous post):

Code:

pkg update && pkg upgrade
service plexmediaserver restart

Now I get ping!

Code:

root@plex:/ # ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=120 time=25.781 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=120 time=22.457 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=120 time=22.505 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=120 time=22.063 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=120 time=21.503 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 21.503/22.862/25.781/1.503 ms


root@plex:/ # traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  testwifi.here (192.168.86.1)  8.096 ms  3.599 ms  3.714 ms
2  bdl1.wrx-cbr1.sbo-wrx.ma.cable.rcn.net (10.18.136.1)  14.867 ms  12.474 ms
10.869 ms
3  bdle32-sub211.aggr2.sbo.ma.rcn.net (146.115.22.213)  16.907 ms  15.729 ms  1
8.169 ms
4  207.172.19.50 (207.172.19.50)  19.519 ms
    bdle4.core1.sbo.ma.rcn.net (207.172.15.131)  21.973 ms  22.172 ms
5  hge0-2-0-0.core2.nyw.ny.rcn.net (207.172.19.213)  24.399 ms
    hge0-2-0-0.core1.nyw.ny.rcn.net (207.172.19.211)  20.458 ms
    hge0-2-0-0.core2.nyw.ny.rcn.net (207.172.19.213)  22.319 ms
6  bdle4.border1.nyw.ny.rcn.net (207.172.15.69)  23.048 ms
    bdle5.border1.nyw.ny.rcn.net (207.172.15.87)  20.059 ms
    bdle4.border1.nyw.ny.rcn.net (207.172.15.69)  30.767 ms
7  72.14.222.73 (72.14.222.73)  20.816 ms  21.562 ms  18.772 ms
8  108.170.248.97 (108.170.248.97)  20.862 ms
    108.170.248.65 (108.170.248.65)  22.986 ms
    108.170.248.1 (108.170.248.1)  29.844 ms
9  209.85.245.195 (209.85.245.195)  20.401 ms
    108.170.238.205 (108.170.238.205)  21.972 ms
    209.85.249.1 (209.85.249.1)  20.198 ms
10  google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8)  22.038 ms  23.880 ms  28.107 ms


root@plex:/ # ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (216.58.219.228): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.58.219.228: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=18.929 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.219.228: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=21.520 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.219.228: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=19.274 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.219.228: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=19.068 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.219.228: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=21.794 ms
^C
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 18.929/20.117/21.794/1.265 ms
root@plex:/ #

Now transcoding works!
This is amazing!!

Where is the guide that says which parameters to enable for Plex?
I spent so long trying to get it right ~ thank you to all involved.

 

[Wolfeman0101]

So just in case anyone else is having an issue my sounded just like yours but deleting my Preferences.xml seemed to fix it for me.

 

[j0hnby]

You were also using a combination of the old warden commands, and new iocage - that's a bit confusing.

Also, you had no default route set in your old jail.

 

[mbotto]

Setting the jail default route manually also fixed the transcoding for me (this should be doable/configurable at plex Plugin install) - obviously this is a bug? Even though I'm happy now I would still like to know what does internet access has to do with transcoding? I'm suspecting that plex is sending some kind of data/statistics every time it plays a movie? This sucks. Any way to disable this?

 

[itskando]

You were also using a combination of the old warden commands, and new iocage - that's a bit confusing.

Just following what the source I cited gave me to work with :D
What do you recommend using where I used warden commands?

You had no default route set in your old jail.

Yeah, I'd asked in a couple of different threads what to put there,
but I wasn't turning up answers, and
even when I had put the right thing there originally,
nothing still worked because other parameters were still wrong.

I also created a plex user in freeNAS to match that of the plex jail.
Can I delete this or was this actually necessary?

 

[j0hnby]

What do you recommend using where I used warden commands?

You were using it to get console access to your jail right? (I had to search for what you did as have never used jls - I only got geeky with jails in IOCAGE) - and you used some of the others already too

The basics are:
iocage list

iocage console jailname

iocage start jailname

iocage stop jailname

iocage restart jailname

The iocage documentation helped me a lot when starting to use it: https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

 

[AirborneTrooper]

I have rebuilt my PMS Plexpass several times since upgrading to 11.2 and moving to iocage in attempt to fix this. I followed the tutorial here: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...lidarr-jackett-ombi-transmission-organizr.58/

I have done all the fixes (they were already done since the tutorial is updated) and I can't get any files that need transcoding to play. I am not sure what to do. Plex worked fine when it was in the warden jail and now it's not. Super frustrated.

 

[itskando]

I can't get any files that need transcoding to play. I am not sure what to do.

Did you read posts #11 and #12?
I suggest posting your outputs.

 

[AirborneTrooper]

Did you read posts #11 and #12?
I suggest posting your outputs.

Yeah, I was able to ping in the jail from the beginning. I was just able to fix it though. I had to delete the jail and install it as a plugin from within FreeNAS 11.2. Once I did this fix and magically the new PMS plugin started transcoding my files like normal. I'm sure it was a permission issue but I literally spent all day and couldn't figure it out. Tried this as a last resort and it's working. Happy wife and kids now.

Code:

iocage set ip4_addr="vnet0|172.16.1.250/24" defaultrouter="172.16.1.1" vnet="on" allow_raw_sockets="1" boot="on" plexiocage set ip4_addr="vnet0|172.16.1.250/24" defaultrouter="172.16.1.1" vnet="on" allow_raw_sockets="1" boot="on" plex