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Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server. - user1user1user123 - 2025-09-25

10.10.7+ubu2404 installed with bash script
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

Going to try my first help post before resorting to my default fix-it with jellyfin and doing a fresh unbuntu install. I run a cobbled together setup that (to a novice linux user) seems to have some permissions issues in general.

I accidentally filled up my main drive overnight and neglected to rectify it before turning off my system. Upon restart, I was getting errors with Ubuntu (I think it needed space to update and there wasn't any). I cleared some space and that solved the Ubuntu issue, but upon trying to navigate to Jellyfin I realized it wasn't active. I tried to restart jellyfin but got an error. Stupidly, I don't remember what the error was exactly, and it may have been the same Failed to Start Jellyfin.Service error I'm getting now. I pretty quickly tried to uninstall (using apt purge jellyfin). Uninstall appeared successful, so I tried a reinstall. 

Upon reinstall I still wasn't able to access via browser. I used systemctl start jellyfin and got the following error:

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Job for jellyfin.service failed because of unavailable resources or another system error.
See "systemctl status jellyfin.service" and "journalctl -xeu jellyfin.service" for details.

Tried systemctl status jellyfin.service and got the following:

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× jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service; enabled; preset:>
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d
            └─jellyfin.service.conf
    Active: failed (Result: resources) since Wed 2025-09-24 19:30:23 CDT; 8s a>
        CPU: 0
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Scheduled restart job, re>
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Start request repeated to>
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Failed with result 'resou>
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin>
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× jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service; enabled; preset: >
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d
            └─jellyfin.service.conf
    Active: failed (Result: resources) since Wed 2025-09-24 19:30:23 CDT; 8s ago
        CPU: 0
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Scheduled restart job, res>
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Start request repeated too>
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Failed with result 'resour>
Sep 24 19:30:23 machine systemd[1]: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin >

I next tried replacing config files (/var/ and /etc/ paths) with my backup from a couple weeks ago with the same result. Tried a couple more uninstalls/reinstalls and various troubleshooting I saw in the forums but still stuck here. Please let me know what additional detail I can provide- happy to get logs but not exactly sure how to so might need some instruction there.

RE: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server. - theguymadmax - 2025-09-25

Can you post the log file? It should be in /var/log/jellyfin

RE: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server. - user1user1user123 - 2025-09-26

(2025-09-25, 04:22 PM)theguymadmax Wrote: Can you post the log file? It should be in /var/log/jellyfin


Unfortunately that directory is empty

RE: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server. - theguymadmax - 2025-09-27

post the results from this command: sudo journalctl -u jellyfin -n 500 --no-pager

RE: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server. - user1user1user123 - 2025-09-29

(2025-09-27, 12:46 AM)theguymadmax Wrote: post the results from this command: sudo journalctl -u jellyfin -n 500 --no-pager

https://privatebin.net/?4024c79b6be31482#HJFbRpjDQndSnBknm2ukvbU7A1hkeUqKRvQ7D24F1Qcj

RE: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server. - theguymadmax - 2025-09-29

Try these command:
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sudo systemctl stop jellyfin
sudo mv /etc/jellyfin/migrations.xml /etc/jellyfin/migrations.xml.bak
sudo mv /etc/jellyfin/system.xml /etc/jellyfin/system.xml.bak
sudo systemctl start jellyfin


RE: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server. - user1user1user123 - 2025-09-30

(2025-09-29, 06:54 PM)theguymadmax Wrote: Try these command:
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sudo systemctl stop jellyfin
sudo mv /etc/jellyfin/migrations.xml /etc/jellyfin/migrations.xml.bak
sudo mv /etc/jellyfin/system.xml /etc/jellyfin/system.xml.bak
sudo systemctl start jellyfin

sudo mv /etc/jellyfin/migrations.xml /etc/jellyfin/migrations.xml.bak is returning 

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mv: cannot stat '/etc/jellyfin/migrations.xml': No such file or directory

The only thing I see in that directory  is logging.json