Recently I’ve been having a problem where the Emby server kept dying. I haven’t been able to figure out what is causing it. So while I’ve been trying to figure it out with the Emby folks, I fixed up the systemd script for Emby so that it would restart itself whenever it died. It was incredibly simple to do this. Here’s the original script:

[Unit]
 Description=Emby Media Server
 After=network.target

[Service]
 EnvironmentFile=/etc/emby-server.conf
 ExecStart=/usr/lib/emby-server/emby-server.sh start
 Restart=on-abort
 TimeoutSec=20
 ExecStopPost=/usr/lib/emby-server/emby-server.sh clear

[Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

And here’s how I fixed it:

I spent the weekend trying to figure out why SuperMario boots so slowly. I ended up overturning my ideas about what the problem was and learned a lot of new techniques. The only bad thing is that while I’m a lot closer to the problem, I’m still unsure of the root cause. So that the proper helpers can get credit, let me point you to the LinuxQuestions.org thread in which I worked this out. If you haven’t already clicked, don’t worry, I’m going to bring the relevant info over.