Unable to start PlexMediaserver service

My plexmediaserver.service looks as per following.

 [Unit] Description=Plex Media Server for Linux After=network.target [Service] Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/ Library/Application Support" Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6 Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR=/tmp Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}"' ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Server' Type=simple User=plex Group=plex Restart=on-failure RestartSec=5 StartLimitInterval=60s StartLimitBurst=3 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

and error i get is as per following

 ● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-12-11 17:15:21 EST; 6min ago Process: 4417 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" (code=exited, status=217/USER) Main PID: 3588 (code=killed, signal=TERM) Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server for Linux. Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Dec 11 17:15:21 ubuntuServer systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.

3 Answers

By doing bit more of research, I could find fix. By executing below 3 commands, it worked.

 sudo mkdir /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library chmod 777 -R /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library service plexmediaserver restart

Assuming you already have user plex and group plex in that os.

Then you can just use sudo chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver to change the ownership of plexmediaserver and its sub directories.

User=plex
Group=plex

Process: 4417 ExecStartPre= … (code=exited, status=217/USER)

So create the missing user account, then.

Environment="…=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/ Library/Application Support"

And when you copy and paste things, check them.