Plex service doesn't start after upgrade

[wags22]

I'm running Plex in a stand-alone jail created back on 9.x.x and now upgraded to FreeNAS-11.2-U8. I attempted to upgrade plex the other night by downloading the installer and using PMS_Updater script to install: ./PMS_Updater.sh -l PlexMediaServer-1.21.1.3830-6c22540d5-FreeBSD-amd64.tar.bz2 -vv -a
Now the service won't start and I can't find anything in a log file /var/log/messages in and out of the jail and /usr/local/plexdata/Logs/ that shows me what is going on. I'm not even sure I'm looking in the right place for the log file.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,
Wags.

 

[sretalla]

I'd be guessing that the latest plex needs python at a version that your jail's OS can't get due to lack of support.

You're going to have to build a new jail (and maybe update FreeNAS to at least 11.3) in order to get everything at a supported level.

 

[wags22]

Thanks sretalla. I thought it might come to that and considered doing it anyway. Know of any good guides on how to setup/migrate/integrate the old data with a new jail? It's been almost 10 years since I set up plex originally and I even then I followed a good how-to manual. I'm technical enough to manage things, just don't have the time to figure out what someone else has already figured out.

 

[ornias]

I would advice first going to a version based on an actually supported FreeBSD version...

Simply put: Break all the things that could break only once....

 

[sretalla]

Know of any good guides on how to setup/migrate/integrate the old data with a new jail?

As already mentioned, get to a supported version... I would suggest going to TrueNAS 12 if you're going to be doing the messing around anyway.

Then you can use some of the information from this post to get your data out of the warden jail and into a new iocage one.

How to: Migrate Plex (plexpass version) from a Warden jail to an iocage jail

OLD DATA - root@freenas:/mnt/jailssd/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/Plex\ Media\ Server/ #New Config Directory outside of the jail mkdir /mnt/jailssd/apps/ mkdir /mnt/jailssd/apps/plex #Change iocage jail location to SSD or preferred storage iocage activate jailssd iocage fetch #Install...

www.truenas.com

 

[wags22]

Ok, I've upgraded to 11.3 and updated the ZFS pool also. I installed Plex as a new plugin and deleted my old server from my plex account. Now I need help with folder mapping between Plex and Freenas. I don't want Plex to access my entire Pool, but only select folders. My problem is I can't figure out how to create sub-folders inside the jail For example I would like the plexmediaserver:/media/series to map to freenashost:/media/series but I can't figure out how to create the series folder in the plexmediaserver jail.

 

[sretalla]

iocage exec plexmediaserver mkdir /media/series

iocage fstab plexmediaserver -a -a /media/series /media/series nullfs ro 0 0

Just to help, since you've made it the same on host and jail, the host comes first.

freenashost:/media/series

I note that this is highly unusual... are you sure that this location is actually on your data pool?

I would usually expect to see something more like:
/mnt/pool/media/series

instead of what you mentioned.

Also, I should probably have mentioned that you can do that in the GUI under Mounts for that jail.