A problem has been detected with a core component of Plex Media Server

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I’ve been having the issue with high CPU usage, maxing it out, from Plex Media Server for the past couple of days. Because of this high CPU usage I was unable to watch movies as they would “crash”. Also viewing/editing settings is not possible as it would just timeout in the interface.

So I started examining the logs and found out it was looping with an error “[Time] Failed to convert ‘1970-01-01 00:59:01’ to epoch.”. Also the timestamps of the logs were showing 1970-xx-xx.
Found out that some TV shows/movies were corrupted and were showing the date “1970-01-01” as Last Watched. So I tried fixing that in the database of Plex. this didn’t solve the issue as the dates were overwritten when I started Plex again.

So… I completely reinstalled Plex but now I can’t get past the " A problem has been detected with a core component of Plex Media Server." screen. And again the logs show “Epoch” errors.

Plex is running in a docker container on my Raspberry PI 4. It worked fine for the past 6 months and started behaving like this a couple of days ago.
I have no clue what’s wrong, I attached all logs.

Thanks in advance.

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From what I could find, there seems to be an issue with certain container tags causing this kind of trouble.
There’s a post with a temporary fix by switching to a different tag:

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Thank you for your quick reply.
It’s fixed now! So there’s a bug in the “latest” build of Plex?

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From what I read it’s not so much a bug but some incompatibility with outside dependencies

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