Issues Installing

[verl20]

I've installed Jellyfin probably a dozen times before.  However, starting yesterday I can not get it to install at all.  I've tried Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 12.  I used the following command to install it.
curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

    Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Mon 2024-08-26 12:36:14 UTC; 2min 56s ago
  Duration: 314ms
    Process: 13998 ExecStart=/usr/bin/jellyfin $JELLYFIN_WEB_OPT $JELLYFIN_FFMPEG_OPT $JELLYFIN_SERVICE_OPT $JELLYFIN_NOWEBAPP_OPT $JELLYFIN_ADDITIONAL_OPTS (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
  Main PID: 13998 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
        CPU: 156ms

Aug 26 12:36:14 gold systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Aug 26 12:36:14 gold systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Aug 26 12:36:14 gold systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 26 12:36:14 gold systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Aug 26 12:36:14 gold systemd[1]: Failed to start jellyfin.service - Jellyfin Media Server.

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Aug 26 12:36:13 gold (jellyfin)[13976]: jellyfin.service: Referenced but unset environment variable evaluates to an empty string: JELLYFIN_NOWEBAPP_OPT, JELLYFIN_SERVICE_OPT

[TheDreadPirate]

There was an issue recently discovered during the installation process for the 10.9.10 release. Permissions are not being properly set on some directories during the package install process leading to what you described.

The workaround is to run these commands to manually set the permissions and then try starting the service properly.

Code:

sudo chown -R jellyfin: /etc/jellyfin /var/lib/jellyfin /var/log/jellyfin /var/cache/jellyfin /usr/share/jellyfin
sudo systemctl restart jellyfin

A hotfix release is being worked on to resolve this issue.

[verl20]

Thank you for the quick reply. Thank worked!

[TheFrenchy]

This saved me on my first time ever on Ubuntu along with my first ever Jellyfin or media server of any kind. Thank you so much it worked great for me as well. Keep up the great work.