Conversion failed. The transcoder crashed or failed to start up. Its exit code was 1

[AndreKlang]

Issue

When trying to start a video, it stalls for a while, then I get the error Conversion failed. The transcoder crashed or failed to start up. Its exit code was 1

A few months ago when updating to version 1.something I ran in to this, and found out that plex had moved the transcode binarys to the library folder (/config in this image), but since docker volumes are mounted with noexec it can't be run from there. My solution back then was to stick with version 0.9.16.6.1993-5089475 (last one before the move). But now that is not an option any more since plex updated their /web/app.

My question is, how has everyone else solved this? Or is nobody using volume mounts for /config?

My env

Host OS: Linux Mint
Log output: None (when error occures)
No symlinks in mounts

Using docker-compose to start container:

  plex:
    build: ./.plex/image/
    container_name: plex
    privileged: true
    network_mode: "host"
    restart: always
    environment:
      PUID: 1000
      PGID: 1000
      VERSION: latest
      TZ: europe/stockholm
    cap_add:
      - SYS_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/fuse
    volumes:
      - ./.plex:/config
    volumes_from:
      - data:ro

I'm running rar2fs on the same container, that's why I'm using a different image (that has FROM linuxserver/plex)

[AndreKlang]

Closing this as solved..

It turns out it had nothing to do with plex (or this image, or docker)..

I have the library on an old ntfs-drive, and it happens to be really hard to get those mounted in a way that lets you execute files from them..

So in the end, the drive it self was mounted on the host with noexec option enabled, and that followed along into the docker container via the volume..

One hell of a thing..

If anyone is curious, this is the /etc/fstab I had to use to get it working:

UUID=C8C23A75C23A67B8	/media/klang/Foto	ntfs-3g	user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000,permissions,exec	0	0