Jellyfin crashed during playback, can't get it back

[tparadox]

I was watching a movie on a WebOS client and the screen went black. Thought the TV had turned itself off, so I power cycled it and was able to get back to the movie. A while later, it went black again and I could no longer connect to the JF server on any device while everything else on that machine is working. I rebooted a few times and no change.

The first time I ran "jellyfin status" I got an error about not finding content in the appropriate folder to start a web client, so I ran "apt install Jellyfin" and it upgraded some things, most notably ffmpeg went from 5 to 7.

But I still couldn't connect, so I ran "jellyfin status" again and these are the errors it's throwing (I saw the same version failed error before apt upgraded ffmpeg):

Code:

17:55:14] [INF] [1] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncode
r: Found ffmpeg version 4.3.7
[17:55:14] [WRN] [1] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncode
r: FFmpeg validation: The minimum recommended version is 4.4
[17:55:14] [ERR] [1] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncode
r: FFmpeg: Failed version check: ffmpeg
[17:55:14] [ERR] [1] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncode
r: FFmpeg: Path set by system $PATH is invalid
[17:55:14] [FTL] [1] Main: Error while starting server
MediaBrowser.Common.FfmpegException: Failed to find valid ffmpeg
  at Emby.Server.Implementations.ApplicationHost.RunStartupTasksAs
ync()
  at Jellyfin.Server.Program.StartServer(IServerApplicationPaths a
ppPaths, StartupOptions options, IConfiguration startupConfig)

[TheDreadPirate]

What OS is the Jellyfin server running on? And how is it installed?

Can you share your full jellyfin log via privatebin.net?

[tparadox]

Armbian v25.2.3 for Odroid XU4 running Armbian Linux 6.6.81-current-odroid xu4, installed directly with Apt.

I think this is what you need?

https://privatebin.net/?0b6c776b7c9cea64...acJH87LBec

[TheDreadPirate]

How are you starting Jellyfin? Are you starting it via systemctl? "sudo systemctl start jellyfin"? Or are you literally typing just "jellyfin"?

[tparadox]

Yes, I use Systemctl.

[TheDreadPirate]

Did you install jellyfin-ffmpeg?

[tparadox]

Code:

root@odroidxu4:~# apt install jellyfin-ffmpeg7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
jellyfin-ffmpeg7 is already the newest version (7.0.2-9-bullseye).
jellyfin-ffmpeg7 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[TheDreadPirate]

Code:

sudo apt list --installed | grep jellyfin
sudo systemctl status jellyfin
sudo journalctl -u jellyfin -n 500 --no-pager

Share the output of those commands via privatebin.net.

[tparadox]

https://privatebin.net/?744c07fdc65a637e...QKiWWjoGBh

[tparadox]

I backed up my config and data and ran "apt purge jellyfin" and then "apt install jellyfin".

I ran "systemctl enable jellyfin" and "systemctl start jellyfin".

Then I ran systemctl status jellyfin and got the same abort message.

https://privatebin.net/?1238656b788f3d30...XfeZZaW5me