2024-07-19, 08:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-07-19, 08:35 PM by DingleBob. Edited 1 time in total.)
I'm at wits end. I spent now more than 7 hours trying to fix this, going through various emotional states like anger, despair, hopelessness etc.
So basically this is all the info that I have gathered and gone through over the last hours:
My setup is Truenas Core, with jellyfin running in a jail (bsd wording for container), installed from the plugin ecostystem.
Why? Because I wanted a system that requires as little configuration and maintenance as possible. being able to install jellyfin with 2 clicks seemed nice to me when I made this choice. The downside is that this is all based on BSD and I'm not familiar with BSD.
So when I did the jellyfin update today. I ended up with Jellyfin 10.9.6. HOWEVER, the truenas version on my server was (probably) using a 12.x.x version. the jail software that is provided is not compatible with the latest jellyfin. Updating truenas core to the latest stable version isn't enough, because that is 13.0.0 which also provides a jail version that isn't compatible with jellyfin.
what people on the truenas forum recommend is going with the unstable truenas core branch. so I gave that a try, upgraded to TrueNAS-13.3-BETA2 which provides the jail version 13.3-RELEASE-p4 which is supposed to be compatible with jellyfin. after trying to upgrade the jail that runs jellyfin, I had no success. on the forum they were like "oh wait, the jail was created from a plugin? no that won't work" ok great.
So what I tried next: creating a new jail, with 13.3-BETA2, where I would set up jellyfin from scratch, in hope that I would carryover my settings from the old instance and then just mounting my media datasets.
No success so far. I could just not make it work. Someone from the truenas forum has spent like 2 hours trying to guide me and they have also noticed that something isn't right, because after 3 attempts on my side, they also gave it a try on their own system and realized that it is just not working currently (so it seems).
well. I'm hopeless with this whole trueNAS Core journey. it seems to me like it was a big mistake. When I picked it, it must have gone under my radar that the whole plugin system was being phased out.
I'll spend the next hours reading about trueNAS Scale. If that is a better option, I might give it a try.
I'll definitely have to make sure before, that the zfs encryption key is correct. Otherwise I might aswell just get a clown tattoo on my face.
If trueNAS Scale is not an option, I'll just go back to Ubuntu I guess. I have tasted jellyfin and I'm madly in love with it, so I NEED it to restore the experience.
thanks @ TheDreadPirate & Efficient_Good_5784 for spending time on answering. I hope I can stay with jellyfin
So basically this is all the info that I have gathered and gone through over the last hours:
My setup is Truenas Core, with jellyfin running in a jail (bsd wording for container), installed from the plugin ecostystem.
Why? Because I wanted a system that requires as little configuration and maintenance as possible. being able to install jellyfin with 2 clicks seemed nice to me when I made this choice. The downside is that this is all based on BSD and I'm not familiar with BSD.
So when I did the jellyfin update today. I ended up with Jellyfin 10.9.6. HOWEVER, the truenas version on my server was (probably) using a 12.x.x version. the jail software that is provided is not compatible with the latest jellyfin. Updating truenas core to the latest stable version isn't enough, because that is 13.0.0 which also provides a jail version that isn't compatible with jellyfin.
what people on the truenas forum recommend is going with the unstable truenas core branch. so I gave that a try, upgraded to TrueNAS-13.3-BETA2 which provides the jail version 13.3-RELEASE-p4 which is supposed to be compatible with jellyfin. after trying to upgrade the jail that runs jellyfin, I had no success. on the forum they were like "oh wait, the jail was created from a plugin? no that won't work" ok great.
So what I tried next: creating a new jail, with 13.3-BETA2, where I would set up jellyfin from scratch, in hope that I would carryover my settings from the old instance and then just mounting my media datasets.
No success so far. I could just not make it work. Someone from the truenas forum has spent like 2 hours trying to guide me and they have also noticed that something isn't right, because after 3 attempts on my side, they also gave it a try on their own system and realized that it is just not working currently (so it seems).
well. I'm hopeless with this whole trueNAS Core journey. it seems to me like it was a big mistake. When I picked it, it must have gone under my radar that the whole plugin system was being phased out.
I'll spend the next hours reading about trueNAS Scale. If that is a better option, I might give it a try.
I'll definitely have to make sure before, that the zfs encryption key is correct. Otherwise I might aswell just get a clown tattoo on my face.
If trueNAS Scale is not an option, I'll just go back to Ubuntu I guess. I have tasted jellyfin and I'm madly in love with it, so I NEED it to restore the experience.
thanks @ TheDreadPirate & Efficient_Good_5784 for spending time on answering. I hope I can stay with jellyfin