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The aur package comes with plexmediaserver.hook which reads...

# Copy, move or symlink this file in /etc/pacman.d/hooks to force a restart when plex is updated.

[Trigger]
Operation = Upgrade
Type = Package
Target = plex-media-server-plexpass
Target = plex-media-server

[Action]
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/systemctl try-restart plexmediaserver.service

^ Did you try that?

For a few months now, after an update yay -Syu, when I try to navigate to Plex via a browser (http://192.168.1.11:32400/web/index.html), I get a 404 NOT FOUND.

This is resolved by a systemctl restart plexmediaserver.

I'm using the Plex Pass version

Is this expected or can it be fixed so this manual restart is not required.

NOTE: I've not yet tried using plex.tv as I get severe lag on audio/video.

When you have PlexPass, you're "allowed" to run beta versions of Plex Media Server and help test. It means earlier access to some features... and bugs. If you have PlexPass, you could think of the other package as the "stable" version and this one as "unstable".

As of moments ago, they're literally the same version, but that will only last a day or three.

What's the difference between this and the plex-media-server package? I'm using plex-media-server and I was able to purchase and use a Plex pass just fine.

This isn't the place to get help w/ Plex. If this is your script, you're probably looking at finding a Discord or the forums. If it is someone else's script, I'd find that persons method of support. Good luck.

@fryfrog, thanks for maintaining this package. Want to mention that, if I update to 1.19.1.2645-1 my post processing script gives a failure (when sending mail, upon completion). I've been using this post-processing script with no issue for quite some time. If I restore my prior version of your package (1.18.8.2527-1), my script is again completing OK, including sending mail. End result of failure was that the recorded show would still be saved to my Plex library, but the "DVR Schedule" page would show the yellow triangle, with error "post-processing failed" or some similar msg when hovering cursor over error triangle (and of course I don't get the expected email). I'll post or email my script if you'd like, just tell me where. I'm happily running the latest Manjaro Linux, FWIW. Up til now, I've never had any issue with rolling release model, ie. keeping my system up to date with all latest packages. Thanks again for your package. --tim

@sakaru, great idea! I've switched box this and the non-plexpass version to use try-restart like you suggested. I haven't pushed a pkgrelbump, so it'll show up naturally at the next update. Or you can force it and have it now.

Thanks!

I've been thinking about that hook that grawlinson suggested. I've had the symlink in place for a while, and while it works, and while I understand that I chose to put the hook in place, sometimes I forget that I stopped plex for some reason and an update will start up back up (since restart will start a stopped service).

I would suggest changing the Exec to:

/usr/bin/systemctl try-restart plexmediaserver.service

That way it'll only issue a restart if the service was already running. From the docs:

This does nothing if units are not running.

@AgentX, your impression is wrong, if you don't pay for PlexPass, use the regular package plex-media-server.