permission denied for /config/...when starting plexmediaserver

[christoth]

The service can write the config files into the volume. The directory is a sub-dir under my user home - non-root ownership. -v /home/chris/plex/config:/config

[needo37]

This is due to the permissions on the unRAID server of where you are pointing /config

[christoth]

The host is Ubuntu 14.04 server. What should I set permissions to?

[needo37]

Aha, my apologies. Most of my users are on unRAID. Can you share with me the current permissions of your Plex directory?

[christoth]

No worries.

I just changed the permissions of the config directory (on the host) to 766 to test the permissions issues and I still get the permissions exception from pms when it tries to write to the log under /config in the container.

I stopped the prior instance of the image and removed it before running each test to wipe any pre-existing artifacts...

Nothing is created/written under config

[christoth]

I also tried starting a data volume and using -volumes-from and still got the following exception:

Aborted (core dumped) 6 3000 /config/Library/Application Support 8192 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error' what(): boost::filesystem::create_directories: Permission denied: "/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server"

using the following docker commands: sudo docker run -d -v /config --name="plex-data" phusion/baseimage sudo docker run -d --net="host" --name="plex" --volumes-from plex-data -v /mnt/nas/media/video:/data -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -e VERSION=0.9.9.12.504-3e7f93c -p 32400:32400 needo/plex

[christoth]

FYI, I just tried timhaak's docker-plex image and it writes to the /config volume without issues.

[needo37]

That is due to his running as the user root and mine runs as the user plex.

[nathanhinish]

@needo37 I'm not sure if this is cleared up elsewhere (Docker Hub maybe?) but my fix is pretty simple...

Create a plex.sh file with the following:

!/bin/bash

start_pms

In your docker run ... command, map the file -v /path/to/plex.sh:/etc/service/plex/run

I've also done this for your sickbeard and couchpotato repos.