SOLVED: Path not found when setting up library - jellyfin on docker

[bagelsworth]

Getting "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again." when trying to set up a directory with my media directory (/srv/media).  This is what I am running to start the jellyfin container:

docker run -d -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -v /srv/jellyfin/configconfig -v /srv/jellyfin/cachecache -v /srv/mediamedia --net=host jellyfin/jellyfin:latest

I tired to "chmod 777" on the "/srv/media" directory as well as "chown -R 1000:1000"

ls -l
drwxrwxrwx 2 MYUSER MYUSER 4096 Aug 18 14:45 media

I am new to docker and containerization.  Not sure what I am missing here, any direction appreciated.  Thanks!

[TheDreadPirate]

Instead of

Code:

-e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000

Use this instead

Code:

--user 1000:1000

[bagelsworth]

Instead of

Code:

-e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000

Use this instead

Code:

--user 1000:1000

Thanks for the reply!

When i format the user/group ID in the command like that ( --user 1000:1000 ) it doesnt seem to start the container.  I dont get an error or anything but when i run "docker ps" i dont see Jellyfin running.  I do see another container running, just no Jellyfin.

[TheDreadPirate]

What is the full command you use now?

[bagelsworth]

"docker run -d -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -v /docker/jellyfin/config:/config -v /docker/jellyfin/cache:/cache --net=host jellyfin/jellyfin:latest"

Note that i did switch from the /srv directory to a dedicated docker director "/docker".

[TheDreadPirate]

Do you have the docker compose plugin installed? I recommend using compose files to manage docker. Compose makes it much easier to manager container configs.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/instal...er-compose

[bagelsworth]

Thanks i did see some other mentions of that.  Ill look into it.

I created a new media folder /media/library/movies.  I set permissions to 777 for that whole path just to test (aware thats not good practice).

drwxrwxrwx 4 myuser myuser 4096 Sep  4 16:53 /media
drwxrwxrwx 4 myuser myuser 4096 Sep  4 16:53 /media/library
drwxrwxrwx 2 myuser myuser 4096 Sep  4 16:53 /media/library/movies

It lets me set the library to /media but not /media/library/movies.... still get the path not found error.

I can see that its writing file to /docker/jellyfin/config so clearly it has access to that but if i try to set the library path to /docker/jellyfin/config i get the same path not found.

[TheDreadPirate]

Are any of these paths symlinks?

[bagelsworth]

No they are all regular directories, no symlinking

[TheDreadPirate]

Wait. Not sure why I didn't notice sooner. You didn't pass in the media directory. Only paths for /config and /cache.

Code:

-v /docker/jellyfin/config:/config -v /docker/jellyfin/cache:/cache

You need to add volumes for your media directories.

From my docker compose.

Code:

volumes:
      - ./jellyfin-stable-data/config:/config
      - ./jellyfin-stable-data/cache:/cache
      - /media/library:/media/library:ro
      - /media/storage2:/media/storage2
      - /media/ramdisk:/media/ramdisk

The container cannot see anything on the host unless you mount it in the config.