I just did a fairly minor media clean-up and move (about 24Gb of data), saw that a library scan was going again on the scatterbrained VA directory, stopped that, started a scan on a different, updated, library. Plex promptly ghosted, and when I finally checked the computer it had hung, rather than crashed. I used Task Manager to close it, and restarted, then started a full library scan.
This is still going on.
The database was cleaned up yesterday, to note, using the Windows bat file available through here.
So, once again the library scan got stuck at the same point on the VA library scan. I’ve since gone in and deleted what appears to be the problem file, plus some others I don’t want.
Plex crashed tray icon-first, and I had to go into Task Manager and shut the rest down. Restarted, but it may have found a new problem file to get stuck on. I used to have a tool that would clean up corrupted MP3s. Oh well.
I’m not sure if the bad files and seeming crashiness of this version are related…but could be.
Rolled back to the previous public version, and deleted more seemingly bad files (no loss, they were very old and very low-res MP3 files.) Plex is banging away at Sonic Analysis on that folder now. Slowly, true, but it’ll be done in, oh, a week.
Similar issue here with this version of PMS. I’m on Ubuntu 22.04 however.
Installing the new update causes all 4 CPU cores to spike to 100% while it scans my Shows library for hours and hours. I let it go overnight and it didn’t seem to be making any sort of progress - just keeps scanning the same things, in random order, over and over.
In addition, the web interface is slightly broken with visual elements in lists appearing and disappearing, library items flashing as if the page is refreshing every couple seconds.
Reverted back to last public release of 1.30.2.xxx and all is working as expected.
