[BUG] URL for download plex from plex.tv does not exist

[jpahullo]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

I can see that from the plex.tv there is URLs for dowloading of the form: https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.32.5.7349-8f4248874/debian/plexmediaserver_1.32.5.7349-8f4248874_amd64.deb.

However, the start of the docker container shows this message:

[...]

**** Server already claimed ****
Atempting to upgrade to: "latest"
failed: Connection timed out.

failed: Connection timed out.
https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/%22latest%22/debian/plexmediaserver_%22latest%22_amd64.deb:
2023-09-11 12:37:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.



########################################################
# Upgrade attempt failed, this could be because either #
# plex update site is down, local network issues, or   #
# you were trying to get a version that simply doesn't #
# exist, check over the VERSION variable thoroughly &  #
# correct it or try again later.                       #
########################################################

[...]

As we can see, the URL for downloading differs from the above (from the plex.tv web), and the log of the docker container.

Maybe this URL should be revisited?

Expected Behavior

I think the URL should match the existing URLs from the web, so that the downloading of the last version goes properly all the times.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Start the docker container
2. docker logs -f plex
3. See the logs.
4. Go to the plex.tv web and check the URL format.

Environment

- OS: Ubuntu 20.4 LTS
- How docker service was installed: through docker.com specification.

CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation

# Always use latest version.
docker pull linuxserver/plex
docker-compose -f "${thisdir}/../docker/docker-compose.yml" up -d

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

services:
plex:
image: linuxserver/plex
container_name: plex
environment:
- VERSION="latest"
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ="Europe/London"
volumes:
- ./../config:/config
- ./../data:/data
network_mode: "host"

Container logs

jpax360:~ 
$ docker logs plex 
[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
───────────────────────────────────────

      ██╗     ███████╗██╗ ██████╗ 
      ██║     ██╔════╝██║██╔═══██╗
      ██║     ███████╗██║██║   ██║
      ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
      ███████╗███████║██║╚██████╔╝
      ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═════╝ 

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───────────────────────────────────────

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───────────────────────────────────────
GID/UID
───────────────────────────────────────

User UID:    1000
User GID:    1000
───────────────────────────────────────

**** Server already claimed ****
Atempting to upgrade to: "latest"
failed: Connection timed out.
failed: Connection timed out.
https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/%22latest%22/debian/plexmediaserver_%22latest%22_amd64.deb:
2023-09-11 12:37:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.



########################################################
# Upgrade attempt failed, this could be because either #
# plex update site is down, local network issues, or   #
# you were trying to get a version that simply doesn't #
# exist, check over the VERSION variable thoroughly &  #
# correct it or try again later.                       #
########################################################


[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
Starting Plex Media Server. . . (you can ignore the libusb_init error)
[ls.io-init] done.
Critical: libusb_init failed

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[Roxedus]

your quotes are incorrect. https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/docker-compose#quoting-variables

[jpahullo]

Hi,

I have updated the docker-compose.yml as follows:

version: "3"

services:
    plex:
        image: linuxserver/plex
        container_name: plex
        environment:
            - VERSION=docker
            - PUID=1000
            - PGID=1000
            - TZ=Europe/London
        volumes:
            - ./../config:/config
            - ./../data:/data
        network_mode: host
        devices:
            - "/dev/dri:/dev/dri"

and now the output is this:

───────────────────────────────────────

User UID:    1000
User GID:    1000
───────────────────────────────────────

**** Server already claimed ****
**** creating video group videoyog4 with id 135 ****
**** adding /dev/dri/renderD129 to video group videoyog4 with id 135 ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/renderD128 are good ****
**** adding /dev/dri/card5 to video group video with id 44 ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/card4 are good ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/card3 are good ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/card2 are good ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/card1 are good ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/card0 are good ****
Docker is used for versioning skip update check
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
Starting Plex Media Server. . . (you can ignore the libusb_init error)
[ls.io-init] done.
Critical: libusb_init failed

Putting the VERSION=docker as you suggest, it simply runs the version of the container and does not look for any new version. So the version checking against the plex.tv site is not performed.

However, there is a long waiting time between the lines User GID: 1000 and the first **** Server already claimed ****. It takes almost a minute or so.

Is it, maybe, due to the mounting directories are on NTFS filesystem mounted as fuseblk? Maybe due to this reason, every boot time goes to chown -R those directories, since the filesystem is not ext4 filesystem or similar. Is that possible? If so, any suggestion to prevent this action performed every time I start the plex service?

Thanks a lot for your work.

Jordi

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