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@andrew-d andrew-d commented Mar 1, 2019 •
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Motivation for this change

This PR attempts to rewrite the Plex derivation and NixOS module to use buildFHSUserEnv. Plex downloads binary codecs from the internet and runs them, and this prevents errors when that happens. This PR is an alternative to #48506 that maintains compatibility with the previous Plex dataDir option.

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Assured whether relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.
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  • We now default to a dataDir in $HOME if none is given to the FHS userenv, since that feels less likely to break without running as elevated permisisons (though the NixOS module keeps the previous default). Does this make sense?
  • Is there a nicer way to do the plex / plexRaw split that still allows overriding plexRaw.src for Plex Pass users?
  • Does this sound sensible?

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pjones commented Mar 2, 2019

This is probably the way to go with Plex. To use any of the Plex Pass features I had to create an Ubuntu VM. I'd rather run it in a NixOS container and this looks like a move in the right direction.

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This looks good to me and works with my existing library. Thank you for taking this over, I am excited to see this merged!

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benley commented Mar 4, 2019

I'll wait for one of the actual package maintainers to chime in before merging, but this looks pretty good to me.

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I tried to run this against the current nixos-unstable-small (eb2a26f5c61) channel.

The service won't start:

Mar 15 22:39:37 odin systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
Mar 15 22:39:37 odin plexmediaserver[29398]: /nix/store/cinw572b38aln37glr0zb8lxwrgaffl4-bash-4.4-p23/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
Mar 15 22:39:37 odin plexmediaserver[29398]: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
Mar 15 22:39:37 odin plexmediaserver[29398]:   what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Mar 15 22:39:37 odin systemd[1]: plex.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Mar 15 22:39:37 odin systemd[1]: plex.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Mar 15 22:39:38 odin systemd[1]: plex.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 15 22:39:38 odin systemd[1]: plex.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Mar 15 22:39:38 odin systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.

I'm not sure this is related to this PR as I got a similar issue with LOCALE while using python 3 in a FHSEnv. #56347 might be related.

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@bachp - Could you pleas try again? I just rebased against master, and #56347 is closed now; I'm running it on 18.09 successfully, but haven't tried against a recent master/staging build.

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bachp commented Apr 1, 2019

@andrew-d The issue still exists. Even after the rebase plex refuses to start with the same error. I think #56347 is not fixed.

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andrew-d commented Apr 2, 2019

@bachp - Aha, I think I figured it out; 467f0f9 is only in staging and not in master, I think. Can you check out this branch (based on master), cherry-pick in 467f0f9, and then try one more time? Sorry for the run-around here!

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bachp commented Apr 2, 2019

@andrew-d Unfortunatly just 467f0f9 is not enough. It also requires #58847 to work properly.

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I rebased this thogether with all the other commits missing to make it working: https://github.com/bachp/nixpkgs/tree/plexfhs-fhsfixes

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bachp commented Apr 12, 2019

@andrew-d This now works out of the box on master. You can use my rebased version from https://github.com/bachp/nixpkgs/tree/plexfhs-fhsfixes that solves the merge conflict by updating the plex version.

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@bachp - Okay, rebased this on master, which I think should have fixed merge conflicts. Thank you for all your help with the locale issues!

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With the latest rebase it works out of the box, even on top os nixos-unstable-small.

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bachp commented Apr 23, 2019

Is there a reson this doesn't get merged?

Rebased version without conflict: https://github.com/bachp/nixpkgs/tree/plexfhs-fhsfixes

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@bachp - Rebased on master again.

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elseym commented Apr 24, 2019

i can also confirm that this change works with the current master, thanks @andrew-d and @bachp!

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benley commented Apr 24, 2019

Any known remaining blockers to merging this? I'm not sure whose approval we're waiting for here

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grahamc commented Apr 24, 2019

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@GrahamcOfBorg build plex

(though I suppose it'll error on non-free software)

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@grahamc - Thank you very much; greatly appreciated!

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