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Plex Media Server not starting on boot on Synology NAS

Posted by MB in Uncategorized on July 14, 2015

My Synology NAS would not successfully start Plex Media Server at bootup. I had to go into Package Center after each boot and run it manually.

I reached out to the Plex forums and didn’t get much help. I did eventaully find a fix.

I assumed that the script was failing on boot as it was waiting for some not-yet-ready resource, and would only run after the whatever-resource was ready. It just needed more time to be ready.

copy the “/var/packages/Plex Media Server/scripts/start-stop-status” file somewhere else on your NAS where you can edit it, and make the following edit:

   ...
start_plex ()
{
+  sleep 7
PLEX_PATH=$(/usr/syno/sbin/synoshare --get Plex | grep Path | awk -F[ '{print $2}' | awk -F] '{print $1}')
...

Save the file, and then copy it back to it’s original location. Reboot.

Plex Media Server should now run on boot successfully.

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