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could you remove "Z /var/lib/plex - plex plex" from plex.tmpfiles it can take quite a while to change premissions on a large collection and makes it seem like boot has hung for my system as it can take a while to change ownership for 619862 files and directories

And I have already said that restarting the server is essential to its continued operation, but I guess it could be pared down to a warning that restarting will instantly solve attempts to start streaming failing because the server is crashing its child process attempts.

I think I'll also add it to the .install file as output if the usermod fails.

@fryfrog I agree; I'm not sure how to solve it either. I think it's a defect in usermod; the restriction is apparently intended to be "don't change a user's home directory while they're logged in" (usermod.c, line 2074) but the plex user is a system account? Not that that helps us here.

Hopefully your pinned comment here will be enough?

@hkoch, I'm not sure of a great way to solve this. I'm thinking output a suggestion to stop, change and then start again in the output if usermod fails. I don't want to stop plex in the update. :/

If the usermod command fails because plex user is already in use, stop plex, change the user and then start it again:

sudo systemctl stop plexmediaserver
sudo usermod -d /usr/lib/plexmediaserver plex
sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver

The command in plex-media-server.install:

    usermod -d /usr/lib/plexmediaserver plex

Fails with

    usermod: user plex is currently used by process 987

(which AFAIC is a bug in usermod, but still...)

As @mmozeiko says, doing a daemon-reload and/or restart as part of the upgrade isn't something that should be added.

I've talked to AUR maintainers in IRC and the general consensus on text spew is that it shouldn't be done unless absolutely critical. It is easy to lose in a large upgrade with lots of spew.

If that is something you personally want, you could checkout this package's git repo, do it in your own .install file and make it a commit. Then, just rebase when there is an update and run makepkg -sri.

Please do not add daemon reload/restart to install script. If I'm doing large upgrade for a lot of packages I don't want to run bunch of daemon-reload commands. I want to do it only once.

Also maybe whoever installs package doesn't want to restart server immediately - because some users are streaming something. Maybe you don't want to start server right now, you want to only install it? Maybe I want to add extra settings to systemd service file (cpu/io/memory limit, etc..)

systemd daemon-reload/restart does not belong in pkgbuild install files.

If you are using ArchLinux you simply should learn how systemd services work. And restart/configure them properly after package installation.

Wouldn't editing the .install file with a post_upgrade() hook to run systemctl daemon-reload and systemctl restart plexmediaserver work with this package? Or at the very least, one could use the hook to print a reminder about doing so.