PLEX Stopped working - FreeNAS-11.1-U7

[cgaines78]

FreeNAS-11.1-U7

My PLEX Media Server Plugin has stopped and will not restart. I tried to delete and reinstall and got an error below so uploaded file and still won't start!
I also updated FreeNAS to FreeNAS-11.1-U7 and still no response.

[MiddlewareError: Failed to download http://download.freenas.org/plugins/9/x64: HTTP Error 404: Not Found]

Not sure if it's related but my log at bottom of screen is constantly showing and just keeps adding lines of this:

Apr 23 09:36:11 GainesNAS kernel: arp: 8c:e2:da:f1:7d:63 attempts to modify permanent entry for 192.168.1.1 on epair0b
Apr 23 09:36:13 GainesNAS kernel: arp: 8c:e2:da:f1:7d:63 attempts to modify permanent entry for 192.168.1.1 on epair0b
Apr 23 09:36:13 GainesNAS kernel: arp: 8c:e2:da:f1:7d:63 attempts to modify permanent entry for 192.168.1.1 on epair0b

My Plugin Repository is set to: http://download.freenas.org/plugins/9/x64/pbi-meta/pbi-repo.rpo

Chris Gaines
Malvern, AR
cgaines78@yahoo.com

 

[dlavigne]

Can you ping download.freenas.org from the FreeNAS shell?

Also, what is the output of ifconfig after a failed installation attempt?

 

[Vincent Jansen]

I am also having this same problem.
I can ping download.freenas.org from the terminal.
but I am not getting a list of available plugings.
My manualy installed plex server does not want to update.

Exception Value:	[MiddlewareError: Failed to download http://download.freenas.org/plugins/9/x64: HTTP Error 404: Not Found]
Exception Location:	./freenasUI/plugins/plugin.py in download, line 120

does anyone have a solution for this?
(I know im not running the latest version of freenas/truenas. Too afraid the update to the latest version will fail.)

 

[ThreeDee]

If your boot drive is an SSD and your hardware at least meets minimum requirements ..I'd upgrade to TrueNAS 12 and manually install plex in a 12.2 jail. I think you are going to half to to be able to run latest versions of Plex anyways

 

[Vincent Jansen]

All hardware requirements are met on my system, yet I keep reading about installation problems with truenas. Also, is the failing repository on older versions of freenas by design?

 

[ThreeDee]

The plethora of individuals that have installed TrueNAS successfully ... generally don't make posts about how easy it was to install (I'm one of those individuals).. I'd recommend a fresh install and then just reloading your saved config file.

It is a chore to maintain plugins .. so who knows .. it's just as easy to install from scratch and easier to maintain/keep up to date yourself .. and that's coming from a FreeNAS/TrueNAS noob

 

[nojohnny101]

I've had no problems installing plex on TrueNAS jail, multiple times. I'm currently on 12.2

Give it a try, I think you will find it easy enough and support is on here if you get stuck.

 

[Vincent Jansen]

Well i decided to update to Truenas.
I lost the previous plex install and jail. Installed the latest version of plex and all seemed fine.
unfortunately that success was short lived. I added mounts and then the plugin did not want to start anymore.
Error: [EFAULT] Stopped PlexTrueNAS due to VNET failure
So again no luck.

 

[Vincent Jansen]

Uninstalling the plugin and removing the jail.
Tried to install again and I gat the VNET failure during installation.

 

[ThreeDee]

start a new 12.2 jail and manually install Plex. Don't use the plugin .... easier to maintain/keep up to date

Code:

mkdir -p /user/local/etc/pkg/repos
ee /user/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

copy and paste the following
FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" }

that will put you on latest repos instead of quarterly
Then you can run:

Code:

pkg update && pkg upgrade
pkg install plexmediaserver-plexpass
sysrc "plexmediaserver_plexpass_enable=YES"

To get quicker updates, you can run:

Code:

pkg install wget
pkg install ca_root_nss
pkg install perl5
fetch -o PMS_Updater.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luluhoc/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_UpdaterPLEXPASS.sh
chmod 755 PMS_Updater.sh
./PMS_Updater.sh -vv -a

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