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Jellyfin getting confused by symlinks? - elbekko - 2024-05-10
Hi, trying to install Jellyfin for the first time, and having some issues.
Setup: Synology DS 1517+, DSM7.1.1, Jellyfin 10.8.13 running in a Docker container, using this image.
I can add certain folders fine for indexing, but Jellyfin appears to have a problem with folders that have a symlink pointing to them?
It's very strange.
At some point, because Plex didn't want to scan the same folder twice, I set up a symlink to my DownloadStation folder, so it could pick up both movies and TV shows. This worked fine.
Jellyfin sees both folders (DownloadStation and DownloadStation_link1):
But when clicking on the DownloadStation folder, the selection isn't saved, and the following is logged:
Code:
[2024-05-10 08:15:18.232 +00:00] [ERR] [66] Jellyfin.Server.Middleware.ExceptionMiddleware: Error processing request: "Too many levels of symbolic links : '/mnt/Disk/Downloads/DownloadStation/DownloadStation_link1'". URL "GET" "/Environment/DirectoryContents".When I add it manually, the following is logged when indexing:
Code:
[2024-05-08 06:28:14.272 +00:00] [ERR] [86] MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem: Error refreshing owned items for "/mnt/Disk/Downloads/DownloadStation"
System.IO.IOException: Too many levels of symbolic links : '/mnt/Disk/Downloads/DownloadStation/DownloadStation_link1'
at Interop.ThrowExceptionForIoErrno(ErrorInfo errorInfo, String path, Boolean isDirectory, Func`2 errorRewriter)
at Interop.CheckIo(Error error, String path, Boolean isDirectory, Func`2 errorRewriter)
at Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle.Open(String path, OpenFlags flags, Int32 mode)
at Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle.Open(String fullPath, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, FileOptions options, Int64 preallocationSize)
at Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.ManagedFileSystem.GetFileSystemMetadata(FileSystemInfo info)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.SelectEnumerableIterator`2.ToArray()
at System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentDictionary`2.GetOrAdd[TArg](TKey key, Func`3 valueFactory, TArg factoryArgument)
at MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem.RefreshMetadata(MetadataRefreshOptions options, CancellationToken cancellationToken)Now, note how it's complaining about the linked folder, although it's the main folder I'm selecting... very strange.
Everything seems to be normal on the filesystem (shell inside the Docker container):
Code:
root@jellyfin-jellyfin1:/mnt/Disk/Downloads# ls -l
total 3412
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1025 users 115 Dec 12 2009 crontab
drwxrwxrwx 6 1025 users 12288 Apr 22 2015 downloadscript
drwxrwxrwx 1361 1024 users 167936 May 9 23:36 DownloadStation
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 15 Feb 19 2019 DownloadStation_link1 -> DownloadStation
drwxrwxrwx 2809 1024 users 163840 Jan 6 2018 DownloadStation_ToSort
drwxrwxrwx 2 root users 4096 Apr 1 2013 @eaDir
-rwxrwxrwx 1 1025 users 3115520 Sep 11 2011 Thumbs.db
drwxrwxrwx 3 1025 users 16384 Mar 21 22:30 torrents
root@jellyfin-jellyfin1:/mnt/Disk/Downloads# stat DownloadStation
File: DownloadStation
Size: 167936 Blocks: 336 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fc00h/64512d Inode: 43517890 Links: 1361
Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1024/ UNKNOWN) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2034-05-17 18:01:21.578040469 +0000
Modify: 2024-05-09 23:36:35.896809245 +0000
Change: 2024-05-09 23:36:35.896809245 +0000
Birth: -
root@jellyfin-jellyfin1:/mnt/Disk/Downloads# stat DownloadStation_link1
File: DownloadStation_link1 -> DownloadStation
Size: 15 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link
Device: fc00h/64512d Inode: 738066601 Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1024/ UNKNOWN) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2034-05-17 17:58:53.490031558 +0000
Modify: 2019-02-19 18:19:44.093412443 +0000
Change: 2019-02-19 18:19:44.093412443 +0000
Birth: -I've also tried mounting the DownloadStation folder directly in Docker, and the same error occurs when selecting it in Jellyfin
Any ideas? I'd rather not have to change the setup too much to not break Plex just yet.
RE: Jellyfin getting confused by symlinks? - gnattu - 2024-05-10
Why you are having DownloadStation_link1 inside the DownloadStation folder and pointing to DownloadStation itself? It is an infinite loop isn't it?
RE: Jellyfin getting confused by symlinks? - elbekko - 2024-05-10
Oh motherf... Thanks for that, no idea how that ever got there, it's supposed to be alongside it.
Removed that link and now it works. Guess I need to get my eyes checked /facepalm