SOLVED: Jellyfin service not starting

[tmsrxzar]

no worries as long as you're enjoying the journey, happy to help where ever possible
just making sure you have a good experience, if linux annoys you then it will not be a good one

and it's always good to learn new things

[merulius]

[15:53:17] [INF] [1] Main: Web resources path: /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web

"ls -la /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web"
"dpkg -l | grep jellyfin"

steve@balrog:~$ dpkg -l | grep jellyfin
ii  jellyfin                                  10.8.13-1                              all          Provides the Jellyfin Free Software Media System
ii  jellyfin-ffmpeg5                          5.1.4-2-jammy                          amd64        Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files
ii  jellyfin-server                            10.8.13-1                              amd64        Jellyfin is the Free Software Media System.
ii  jellyfin-web                              10.8.13-1                              all          Jellyfin is the Free Software Media System.

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steve@balrog:~$ ls -la /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web': No such file or directory

As I have been saying, it ain't there.

[15:53:17] [INF] [1] Main: Web resources path: /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web

"ls -la /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web"
"dpkg -l | grep jellyfin"

[merulius]

OK, here's what I'm going to do, unless someone comes up with an aha!

Purge it all again.
Re-install as per instructions for the step-by-step approach here https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/instal...on-process

So I'm going dark for a little while and I'll report back with results.

[TheDreadPirate]

The command "jellyfin" doesn't start jellyfin properly. "sudo systemctl start jellyfin" is how you would start it, but that is failing.

Run this command and then scroll to the bottom. Copy and paste the last hundred lines or so to sourcebin and link that back here.

Code:

sudo journalctl -u jellyfin

[tmsrxzar]

what TDP said

if running "manually" you need to supply the arguments
jellyfin-web on mine sets itself up in /usr/share/jellyfin/web/
so to run with that path i would execute
jellyfin --webdir=/usr/share/jellyfin/web/

use jellyfin --help for flags

i use docker so it's pretty much all done for me, not sure where jellyfin sets it's webpath in the config files (/usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web)

[TheDreadPirate]

i use docker so it's pretty much all done for me, not sure where jellyfin sets it's webpath in the config files (/usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web)

The web path, and all the other data/cache paths, are defined in the systemd file for the jellyfin service.  Don't remember the exact path for that.  Regardless, something isn't right and the service is not starting.  Hopefully journalctl will help us narrow the issue.

[merulius]

The command "jellyfin" doesn't start jellyfin properly.  "sudo systemctl start jellyfin" is how you would start it, but that is failing.

Run this command and then scroll to the bottom.  Copy and paste the last hundred lines or so to sourcebin and link that back here.

Code:

sudo journalctl -u jellyfin

https://srcb.in/XK2QAOiUJK

I hope I have done that right. 

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed.

[merulius]

The command "jellyfin" doesn't start jellyfin properly.  "sudo systemctl start jellyfin" is how you would start it, but that is failing.

Run this command and then scroll to the bottom.  Copy and paste the last hundred lines or so to sourcebin and link that back here.

Code:

sudo journalctl -u jellyfin

And for good measure, here are the first 100 (of 5000+).

https://srcb.in/XmHnOHu2ki

[TheDreadPirate]

The command "jellyfin" doesn't start jellyfin properly.  "sudo systemctl start jellyfin" is how you would start it, but that is failing.

Run this command and then scroll to the bottom.  Copy and paste the last hundred lines or so to sourcebin and link that back here.

Code:

sudo journalctl -u jellyfin

https://srcb.in/XK2QAOiUJK

I hope I have done that right. 

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed.

Nothing about that log makes sense.  Jellyfin.sh does not exist, period, when installed with APT.

Type this command

Code:

history

Copy and paste the contents to sourcebin (sanitize any potentially personal info), save, and link back here.

[merulius]

The command "jellyfin" doesn't start jellyfin properly.  "sudo systemctl start jellyfin" is how you would start it, but that is failing.

Run this command and then scroll to the bottom.  Copy and paste the last hundred lines or so to sourcebin and link that back here.

Code:

sudo journalctl -u jellyfin

https://srcb.in/XK2QAOiUJK

I hope I have done that right. 

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed.

Nothing about that log makes sense.  Jellyfin.sh does not exist, period, when installed with APT.

Type this command

Code:

history

Copy and paste the contents to sourcebin (sanitize any potentially personal info), save, and link back here.

https://srcb.in/NsYeiQ2pRU