VPS rclone plex server

rennais · July 8, 2019, 12:51pm

Hello,

i rent a vps on debian 9 and installed rclone and plex server.

plex is running
rclone is running

the last problem i have is that i don't arrive to mount the folder to plex be able to point it

commands are working fine :
rclone lsd gdrive_media_vfs:
rclone ls gdrive_media_vfs:

command not working : rclone mount --allow-other gdrive_media_vfs: /var/tmp/gdrive_media_vfs

error message : 2019/07/08 08:45:59 Fatal error: Can not open: /var/tmp/gdrive_media_vfs: open /var/tmp/gdrive_media_vfs: no such file or directory

i tried this too: rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs:path/to/files /path/to/local/mount

mountcheck is working well

i am a noob with debian and vps, what should i do?

thanks

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 12:58pm

That's an odd spot to mount it.

In Linux, it's look for a directory that is empty to mount it to.

I use /GD for my mount so you'd have to:

mkdir /GD (probably as root as I have it my root location)
or you can do

mkdir /home//GD
and mount it to /home//GD

rennais · July 8, 2019, 1:00pm

hello thanks, can you write me the command i am not sure to understand

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 1:02pm

That is the command I wrote:

Last login: Mon Jul  8 07:48:35 2019 from 192.168.1.195
[felix@gemini ~]$ pwd
/home/felix
[felix@gemini ~]$ mkdir GD
[felix@gemini ~]$ rclone mount gcrypt: /home/felix/GD

and that would mount it to /home/felix/GD

rennais · July 8, 2019, 1:07pm

ok i did this mkdir GD (i see it in plex empty
and did this : rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs: /home/GD

need i restart plex server?

when i do this now rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs: /home/GD
i have this message : 2019/07/08 09:13:04 Fatal error: Directory is not empty: /home/GD If you want to mount it anyway use: --allow-non-empty option
because i don't see anything in GD

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 1:16pm

ls -al /home/GD

It has something in it.

rennais · July 8, 2019, 1:17pm

i did it once when you told me it was empty and worked

but now this is not empty but i see nothing in PMS

but no file in there

i did again a mount check i have this

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 1:30pm

What's the mount command you are using? You need to use --allow-other

rennais · July 8, 2019, 1:31pm

i use rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs: /home/GD

i just tried ~# rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs: /home/GD --allow-other
2019/07/08 09:31:22 Fatal error: Directory is not empty: /home/GD If you want to mount it anyway use: --allow-non-empty option

i tried rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs: /home/GD --allow-non-empty no message error but nothing in plex

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 1:40pm

You probably already have a mount running.

You really never ever want to use --allow-non-empty as that allows for over mounting.

Make sure no rclone is running and run the command.

rennais · July 8, 2019, 1:41pm

how to make sure no rclone is running?

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 1:50pm

Use the ps command and see if any other processes are going:

[felix@gemini ~]$ ps -ef | grep rclone
felix      781     1  0 09:03 ?        00:00:19 /usr/bin/rclone mount gcrypt: /GD --allow-other --buffer-size 1G --dir-cache-time 96h --log-level INFO --log-file /opt/rclone/logs/rclone.log --timeout 1h --umask 002 --user-agent animosityapp --rc
felix     7105  2644  0 09:49 pts/0    00:00:00 grep rclone

and if they are:

kill 781

781 is the process ID or PID showing above.

rennais · July 8, 2019, 3:27pm

i reinstalled everything on a new vps and i have now this problem for the command:

rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs: /home/GD --allow-other2019/07/08

11:19:05 mount helper error: fusermount: fuse device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

i uninstall fuse reinstall but not working

i did this : root@srv0XXX:~# ls -l /dev/fuse
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10, 229 juil. 8 11:13 /dev/fuse

i don't understand

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 3:28pm

As root, follow what it says and type:

modprobe fuse

rennais · July 8, 2019, 3:28pm

libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:505 kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file: could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab136.1/modules.builtin.bin'
FATAL: Module fuse not found.

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 3:29pm

That means your OS is messed up and/or fuse is not installed properly.

rennais · July 8, 2019, 3:29pm

can it be the hoster the problem? i activate the fuse option in admin panel

Animosity022 · July 8, 2019, 3:34pm

No idea, Work with your VPS provider.

rennais · July 8, 2019, 5:39pm

update:

i solved this by :
1 - changing vps (the other one didn't support fuse)
2- apply your command mkdir
3- and choose ubuntu and not debian 9 or centos

everything work fine now, i configured it in 5 minutes with this (5 hours lost before)

thanks a lot for your help, hope this update will help someone one day

rennais · July 8, 2019, 5:44pm

here the command i used (without rclone part creation drive)

1- connect
ssh root@xxxxxx

2- Plex installation

i used this : https://www.lavavps.lt/login/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=107

apt-get update

apt-get install wget

wget https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.16.1.1291-158e5b199/debian/plexmediaserver_1.16.1.1291-158e5b199_amd64.deb

dpkg -i plexmediaserver_*.deb

apt-get install curl apt-transport-https

echo deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb ./public main | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list

curl https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key | apt-key add -

apt-get update

http://localhost:8888/web

3- installer unzip
apt-get install zip

4- rclone installation

https://rclone.org/install/

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s beta

5_ installer fuse

Enable fuse in hosting panel

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fuse

6- monter rclone

touch mountcheck

rclone copy mountcheck gdrive_media_vfs: -vv --no-traverse

mkdir /home//GD

rclone lsd gdrive_media_vfs:
rclone ls gdrive_media_vfs:
rclone mount gdrive_media_vfs: /home/GD --allow-other