10.10.2 upgrade broken, wrong/missing web resource path

[jaykayenn]

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Description of the bug

Upgrading Jellyfin 10.10.1 -> 10.10.2 results in broken installation that cannot start. Its looking for files at non-existent path /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web
apt reinstall didn't work either.

Reproduction steps

1. apt upgrade from a running 10.10.1 -> 10.10.2 (noble2404)

Additional troubleshooting steps taken:

1. Reboot
2. apt reinstall

Same results.

What is the current bug behavior?

jellyfin.service = dead
Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: at Jellyfin.Server.Migrations.MigrationRunner.PerformMigrations(IMigrationRoutine[] migrations, MigrationOptions migrationOptions, Actio>Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: at Jellyfin.Server.Migrations.MigrationRunner.Run(CoreAppHost host, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory) Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: at Jellyfin.Server.Program.StartServer(IServerApplicationPaths appPaths, StartupOptions options, IConfiguration startupConfig) Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: [10:54:07] [INF] Running query planner optimizations in the database... This might take a while Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: [10:54:07] [INF] Disposing CoreAppHost Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: [10:54:07] [INF] Disposing MusicBrainzArtistProvider Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: [10:54:07] [INF] Disposing MusicBrainzAlbumProvider Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 jellyfin[1327]: [10:54:07] [INF] Disposing PluginManager Nov 17 10:54:07 JKNSERVER2 systemd[1]: jellyfin.service: Deactivated successfully.

jellyfin CLI command, error:
Main: The server is expected to host the web client, but the provided content directory is either invalid or empty: /usr/lib/jellyfin/bin/jellyfin-web.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Start jellyfin as normal.

Jellyfin Server version

10.10.0+

Specify commit id

No response

Specify unstable release number

No response

Specify version number

10.10.2

Specify the build version

10.10.2+noble2404

Environment

- OS:LM22 (Ubuntu 24.04)
- Linux Kernel: 6.8
- Virtualization: no
- Clients:
- Browser:
- FFmpeg Version:
- Playback Method:
- Hardware Acceleration: y
- GPU Model: NV3060ti
- Plugins:
- Reverse Proxy:
- Base URL:
- Networking:
- Storage:

Jellyfin logs

logfile 0 bytes

FFmpeg logs

Client / Browser logs

No response

Relevant screenshots or videos

No response

Additional information

No response

[maste9]

Same here with the docker image.

When the server updated to the new 10.10.2 image the server immediately stopped to function and couldn't be started anymore:

The only obvious failure message in the logs was that jellyfin tried to open a m3u-playlist-file but failed with insufficient privileges for its assumed path. The server exited with Code 0 after that.

Specifiying the image's version to 10.10.1 and starting the server left me with a fine working jellyfin server again.

[YaKillaCJ]

Can confirm. Did no other changes but update from 10.10.1 to 10.10.2. Getting an error about playlist being read only in logs. [FTL] [1] Main: Error while starting server

[IamDan77]

Yep same issue. Updated and now the server wont start.

Unraid docker

[miguelpedregosa]

Same issue in a LXC container

[thornbill]

It sounds like this could be a duplicate of #13048 but can’t confirm without a full error trace.

[jaykayenn]

It sounds like this could be a duplicate of #13048 but can’t confirm without a full error trace.

Perhaps as a dependency. But this post highlights the missing path error shown when trying to run Jellyfin 10.10.2.

[joshuaboniface]

The missing path issue is an entirely separate one from the playlists not being writable. The latter is tracked in the above issue Bill posted.

The missing path will be due to a configuration error. Can you post your /etc/default/jellyfin, /lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service, /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/* and systemctl status jellyfin contents/outputs.

Basically somehow, the JELLYFIN_WEB_OPT= envvar and thus --webdir=/usr/share/jellyfin/web is not being set properly. This is what it should be for .deb installs; if it's anything else it's somehow wrong. The /etc/default/jellyfin which sets this comes from packaging and was not changed for 10.10.2 (but was for unrelated things in 10.10.1).

Note as well that you cannot just call jellyfin with .deb packages and expect it to work; the locations are not "the defaults" of the program under Debian; you need to source /etc/default/jellyfin first and then set the options (like you see in /lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service) if you want to try to run it outside of systemd.

[jaykayenn]

The missing path issue is an entirely separate one from the playlists not being writable. The latter is tracked in the above issue Bill posted.

The missing path will be due to a configuration error. Can you post your /etc/default/jellyfin, /lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service, /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/* and systemctl status jellyfin contents/outputs.

Basically somehow, the JELLYFIN_WEB_OPT= envvar and thus --webdir=/usr/share/jellyfin/web is not being set properly. This is what it should be for .deb installs; if it's anything else it's somehow wrong. The /etc/default/jellyfin which sets this comes from packaging and was not changed for 10.10.2 (but was for unrelated things in 10.10.1).

Note as well that you cannot just call jellyfin with .deb packages and expect it to work; the locations are not "the defaults" of the program under Debian; you need to source /etc/default/jellyfin first and then set the options (like you see in /lib/systemd/system/jellyfin.service) if you want to try to run it outside of systemd.

Ok, thanks for the explanation. Seems I misunderstood how Jellyfin runs.
Unfortunately, I don't have configs/logs any more as I've restored my previous system snapshot. But from the jellyfin.service tail I posted above, it appears to match #13048
Closing as duplicate.

[alex-veri]

Same here. Error was pointing to missing permissions to a m3u8 playlist file.

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/mnt/nas_server/media_server/2_music/Vange Leonel/[1991] Vange/Vange Leonel - Vange.m3u8' is denied.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

To workaround it I gave the file 777 permission and restarted Jellyfin service. After that I deleted the file because I didn't need it.