SOLVED: Jellyfin service not starting

[alanf]

I just installed jellyfin with the official script (curl + bash) on Ubuntu 22.04 amd64.

I got a similar problem, jellyfin wouldn't start, and I had to chown -R jellyfin:jellyfin /etc/jellyfin in order to make it work.

This is the initial state:


root@microserver# ls -ld /etc/jellyfin
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin adm 4096 Aug 28 06:25 /etc/jellyfin
root@microserver# cd /etc/jellyfin/
root@microserveretc/jellyfin# ls
logging.json
root@microserveretc/jellyfin# ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin adm 1040 Aug 25 06:38 logging.json


Perplexed:
it seems that jellyfin requires rw access to the config directory; most config files are written by jellyfin on start, rather than just read;

why does it not start with the default install script? looks like a bug to me.