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Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases
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Can't Stop Plex From Within Container Binhex-Unraid #89

Closed joecan00 closed 1 year ago

joecan00 commented 1 year ago

Running the binhex-plexpass instance of Plex on Unraid and whenever I run PlexDBRepair it won't let me stop Plex. I get the following option for "1".

1 - 'stop' - (Not available. Stop manually)

If I stop the container it also won't work as I get the following question:

Are you trying to run the tool from outside the container environment ?

But it doesn't allow me to go further.

Any help would be greatly appriciated!

ChuckPa commented 1 year ago

You can't stop the container as that defeats the purpose.

BINHEX uses 'dumb-init' start and /home/nobody/start.sh

  1. Kill -15 Plex
  2. Do what you need
  3. Restart the container.

If you want start/stop of PMS, you should consider a different container image

joecan00 commented 1 year ago

Sorry if I'm not understanding, but none of the PlexDBRepair options will work because it says Plex is running. If I can't stop Plex from within the PlexDBRepair utility and I can't stop the container how do I run the PlexDBRepair functions.

I don't know what "kill -15 Plex" means.

ChuckPa commented 1 year ago

I don't know what "kill -15 Plex" means.

If you don't know how to kill -15 $(pidof 'Plex Media Server') then perhaps you should be using a different container which supports starting and stopping of the application and leaving the container running??

(Not trying to be harsh but this is Linux AND you're using Docker on Linux)

joecan00 commented 1 year ago

I don't think you were trying not to be harsh.

I'm new to running Plex in a docker container on Unraid and am new to Linux. I had issues with Plex and found this utility. I couldn't get it to work so I tried asking for help. Just because I currently don't know how to use your utility or am new to something doesn't mean I should stop using Plex in a docker container on Linux.

Sphyix commented 1 year ago

If you don't know how to kill -15 $(pidof 'Plex Media Server') then perhaps you should be using a different container which supports starting and stopping of the application and leaving the container running??

(Not trying to be harsh but this is Linux AND you're using Docker on Linux)

Please add this to the README on the docker section

ChuckPa commented 1 year ago

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