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Unable to add new Library to Plex

Posted: 09 May 2021, 17:57
by deejc
i tried adding a new library folder that has some TV but it wont show in plex the logs show this

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May 09, 2021 10:45:01.254 [0x7fad78c1b700] ERROR - [Notify] Failed to add watch for "/mnt/md0/video/tv/New Show" (28: No space left on device)
i dont seem to have any file systems that are full exepct tmpfs and my usb which is not used by plex at all

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Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md9                  1.8G    680.3M      1.1G  38% /
devtmpfs                922.4M         0    922.4M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   938.5M      4.0K    938.5M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   938.5M    103.8M    834.7M  11% /tmp
tmpfs                   938.5M    232.0K    938.3M   0% /run
tmpfs                   938.5M     15.0M    923.6M   2% /opt/var
/dev/sdc1                 1.8T      1.7T         0 100% /mnt/usb/usbshare1
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv0       1.8T      1.4T    448.6G  76% /mnt/md0
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv0       1.8T      1.4T    448.6G  76% /home
cgroup                  938.5M         0    938.5M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/vg0-lv0       1.8T      1.4T    448.6G  76% /mnt/md0/appdata/docker/btrfs
plex transcoder folder is set to

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/home/plex/tmp_transcoding

Re: Unable to add new Library to Plex

Posted: 09 May 2021, 18:52
by deejc
i added the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:

fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1048576

If I then run sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

and it seems to have stopped the error message but now plex reports a corrupt DB <sigh>

Re: Unable to add new Library to Plex

Posted: 10 May 2021, 10:37
by TMSupport
Please advise whether it’s ok to let our engineer has a remote session to check it. Please send an email to support to confirm it.

Re: Unable to add new Library to Plex

Posted: 10 May 2021, 13:37
by deejc
I uninstalled and reinstalled plex