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Jellyfin can't restart by itself? - AbendrotBarbecue - 2025-08-22
Jellyfin hasn't been able to restart by itself recently (I think since I connected it to nginx?), it just acts like if I'd asked it to shut off.
When I type "systemctl start Jellyfin" it asks for my authentication for "org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units".
There's nothing actually wrong after that, it's just inconvinient having to SSH into my server to start jellyfin manually when there's a button to restart the server right there.
How do I get Jellyfin to let itself restart again?
Thank you in advance!
RE: Jellyfin can't restart by itself? - AbendrotBarbecue - 2025-08-22
From what I can gather, it's starting to look like a permissions issue...
RE: Jellyfin can't restart by itself? - crobibero - 2025-08-22
It might be a permissions issue, I suggest adding the server logs as they would likely show why Jellyfin failed to restart
RE: Jellyfin can't restart by itself? - AbendrotBarbecue - 2025-08-22
Okay, found a solution but it's probably not a good one.
I looked into the command that was stopping it (polkit) and found this link:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304468
Which lead me to make the same file but with tweaks like so:
Code:
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units")
{
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});Is it wise? Probably not, no, but it works, and that's about all I can ask.
(2025-08-22, 02:02 PM)crobibero Wrote: It might be a permissions issue, I suggest adding the server logs as they would likely show why Jellyfin failed to restart
Sorry! Was typing right when you sent that. I figured out the specific program that was causing it so I can confirm it's no fault of Jellyfins! This was actually an issue with Polkit (why now I don't know, but I know it's probably out of the scope of this forum! Sorry...!)