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alucryd: I don't either, only reason I saw it was because of the earlier typo and I was confused so I looked. I didn't mean anything by it. Thanks for the pkgbuild.

Falstaff: Thx for the heads up, package updated. pauldcox: I'm sorry I don't check the plex download page every other minute, if you know there's a new release the flag out of date button is your friend.

Oops, you're right. My bad.

I think you mean 0.9.11.16 (0.9.11.11 was out before that and not upgraded to for whatever reason also)

Version 0.9.11.7 just came out.

Great, glad you got it sorted!

alucryd, I am very excited to say that your suggestion worked! The only difference between what I've tried in the past and what I did this time per your suggestion, was removing the "plex" user and group. Potentially of note is that despite stopping (and disabling, just to be sure) the "plexmediaserver" service I was still unable to delete the "plex" user because it was currently running a process on my machine. Targeting the process ID to kill it did not actually end the process, but running `sudo pkill -u plex` successfully ended the problem process. After that, a simple `userdel plex` and `groupdel plex` followed by reinstallation and everything is up and running again! Also of note is that much like commenters of yore, I am unable to start the service (`systemctl start plexmediaserver`) until *after* I enable the service. While I agree with your statement that it absolutely should not matter, I can only report the opposite. For whatever reason (whether it makes sense or not) it is not possible for me to successfully start the service until after its enabling. As a side note, I only ran the server manually so that I could get a more useful error message. Otherwise I couldn't get a particularly useful error message.

Robr3rd, did you properly migrate your database (see the instructions in the install file)? I guess remnants of the previous installation could cause issues. Please try the following: uninstall plex-media-server, make sure /opt/plexmediaserver and /var/lib/plex are gone, if not wipe them out. This will erase your database so create a backup if you don't want to lose it, then reinstall plex-media-server and make sure /var/lib/plex belongs to plex:plex. If you already have a "plex" user and group on your system, you might want to delete them before reinstalling. Finally you can restore your backed up library in /var/lib/plex, and chown -R plex:plex the lot of it while you're at it. And for the 100th time, please _don't_ run the server manually, especially _not_ as root, use the provided service.