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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:31:21 +0000
From:      Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com>
To:        uzimac@da3m0n8t3r.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Plex Media Server Port issues
Message-ID:  <5329D469.9080508@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5329D05B.2040203@da3m0n8t3r.com>
References:  <5328D887.3080901@gmail.com> <5328DFE9.3050403@da3m0n8t3r.com> <5329BED4.70104@gmail.com> <5329D05B.2040203@da3m0n8t3r.com>

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On 03/19/2014 05:14 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> On 3/19/2014 8:59 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:
>> On 03/19/2014 12:08 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
>>> On 3/18/2014 4:36 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm experiencing 3 issues with the Plex Media Server....
>>>>
>>>> My configuration is running FreeBSD 10.0 x64 with the ports tree up 
>>>> to date.
>>>>
>>>> Issue 1: Upon first installing the port everything went fine 
>>>> however, PMS wouldn't start and kept complaining about a Python C 
>>>> Lang issue... Google'ing  I managed to find a FreeBSD Forum posting 
>>>> stating to insert this line:
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>> export LD_LIBMAP="/lib/libc.so.7 
>>>> /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver/libc.so.7"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't recall using Plex Media Server however I think you are 
>>> missing something in your LD_LIBMAP.. like an equal sign, instead of 
>>> the space.. ie libc.so.7=the other libc.so.7
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the hint, I added it into the start.sh file and restarted 
>> the PMS service.
>>
>> I'm not sure if it actually did anything though as nothing seems to 
>> have changed.
>>
>> In the meantime however, shouldn't that have been added into the port 
>> in anycase?
>>
>> I can definitely say that the DLNA server isn't visible. I will check 
>> in the meantime to see if there is a setting somewhere maybe in the 
>> Preferences.xml file to turn on the visibility... unless anyone else 
>> has any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Kaya
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>
> Not sure, it looks like plex media server is a closed source 
> proprietary program. Are they using their own libc for some sort of 
> DRM scheme? Not sure how that works with GNU software, maybe they 
> wrote their own closed-source libc?
> does /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver/libc.so.7 exist? maybe you need 
> to use the FreeBSD libc in the compatibility libraries...
>
> Anyway the ports Makefile shows their binary files are compiled for 
> FreeBSD 9 , and uses the libstdc++ in 
> ${LOCALBASE}/lib/compat/libstdc++.so.6 but no mention of libc.
>
> Waitman
>

Hmm.... odd!

I found the FreeBSD portion on the Plex site so I think I'll take this 
there as there is probably a larger user space...

Thanks in anycase.

Regards,

Kaya



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