well i have installed and setup jellyfin twice in the last few days. had it running perfectly and then this afternoon it had an update so i updated it. now once again it wont run. I have tried renaming the plugins folder to plugins.backup and deleting the cache folder permanently. Nothing works.
It really sucks because i had just last night setup wizarr and sent out invitations to friends and family. one family member messaged me this afternoon before i updated telling me how smoothly the process was creating a username and password and then accessing jellyfin in its entirety. Only for me to update and cause it all to crash.
I can only imagine at this point i will need to uninstall it completely and reinstall a fresh jellyfin and spend the next 24 hrs rescanning all my media. what a pain.
Sorry to hear this, mate. That is really frustrating, especially after you had Wizarr and the user invites working properly.
Before wiping Jellyfin and rescanning everything, I would first try to confirm what actually broke after the update. It may only be the container/image update, permissions, database, plugin loading, or a bad app update, not necessarily your media library.
Can you please share a few details first:
- Which ZimaOS version are you running?
- Did you update Jellyfin from the ZimaOS App Store/UI?
- Is the Jellyfin container still running, or does it keep restarting?
- Can you post the Jellyfin container logs?
If you are comfortable using SSH, this should help confirm the container status:
docker ps -a | grep -i jellyfin
Then get the logs with:
docker logs --tail=200 jellyfin
If the container name is different, use the name shown from the first command.
I would avoid uninstalling it for now, because that may risk losing the existing config/database and force a full rebuild. The better first step is to check the container logs and confirm whether this is a Jellyfin crash, plugin issue, permission issue, or update/image problem.
Once we see the logs, it should be easier to know whether the existing setup can be repaired without starting from scratch.