Hello everyone. PMM and (kinda) Docker noob here so please be patient with me. I know enough to get myself into trouble but I went down the rabbit hole yesterday... 🤷♂️ . I'm running PLEX on a Synology NAS and it's been working perfectly for a long time. I installed PMM on my NAS via Docker yesterday and after some substantial troubleshooting got it to run (without any errors as far as I know). The problem I'm having is that as soon as it's finished its 'run' the Docker container just stops running and I get a "Docker container PlexMetaManager stopped unexpectedly". I can't figure it out for the life of me. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
#Docker container PlexMetaManager stopped unexpectedly
acoustic stag
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Including the meta.log from the beginning is a huge help use !logs for more information.
shy prism
How are you running it? docker run? compose? something else?
acoustic stag
I installed it through Docker via my Synology NAS. Downloaded the latest image from there.
shy prism
OK, I can't see your screen so you're going to have to provide more details.
What's the configuration look like?
There's a runtime flag or an ENV var that will make it behave like this; it will run immediately when you start the container then exit.
PMM_RUN
acoustic stag
That's probably it. I added that.
shy prism
If that's true the container will behave like this.
acoustic stag
I need to force run it. It's the only way I could get it to do it.
shy prism
If you remove PMM_RUN and start the container, it will wait until 5AM, then do its thing, then wait until the next 5AM, rinse, repeat.
shy prism
- Create a second container with PMM_RUN set. Start that one when you want to do an immediate run.
- exec into the container and run the python script manually.
- Use
docker run
[those are alternatives, not steps]
If you want it to RUN RIGHT NOW when the container starts and then when it finishes wait until tomorrow at 5AM, you can't do that [easily] with a single container.
For the most part these two modes: "run right now" vs. "wait until the scheduled time" are mutually exclusive.
acoustic stag
I tried 2 (I think) through the the Docker Terminal with the --run command but it didn't work. Are you able to provide some specifics details on 1 or 2 as I'm not really clear on either?
shy prism
for 1, you have one container already, leave that one alone. When you want to run PMM right this second, start that container; PMM will run and the container will quit when it's finished.
Create a second container just like the one you have with all the same parameters and config details EXCEPT leave PMM_RUN out. When you start that container it will run in the background and wake up every day at 5AM.
for 3, you'd run something like:
docker run --rm -ti -v /opt/pmm/config:/config meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:nightly -c /config/test-config.yml --run
on your NAS [of course, change those config details as appropriate]
Wait that was 3
acoustic stag
Ahhhh... Duplicate containers with the one parameter being removed, yes?
shy prism
For #2, you'd open a shell into the container however Synology does that and run python plex_meta_manager.py --run
shy prism
Ahhhh... Duplicate containers with the one parameter being removed, yes?
exactly
acoustic stag
Thank you very much sir!
shy prism
You could create however many duplicate containers with different settings to do various things [just overlays, only collections, etc]. Start/stop as desired.