This issues here has popped up yet again over the last 2 days. Have been unable to get a Dump file as for some reason it only creates a 0KB file. I do have the logs and the connections list Plex Media Server Logs_2023-09-21_15-50-19.zip (4.7 MB) connections.txt (86.2 KB) Currently Server Versi…

Heres a New batch of Logs and connection list, Plex and the server its on had been restarted and this has happened again after just 5 hours!! Again I was not able to get a dump file as its keeps creating 0KB empty files, most annoying. Plex Media Server Logs_2023-09-21_20-56-02.zip (4.6 MB) Conne…

Would that course the sever to lock up and be stuck with hundreds of open connections?

Yes, and or a thousand other problems. A corrupt database causes a snowball effect with other issues. Fix that, and Ill bet your problem goes away, if not you can repost new logs and further troubleshooting can be performed. But until the database is fixed its pointless to do additional troubleshoot…

OK cool now my other question is. How dose the DB Repair work? I have just run it and it claims to have moved some files and repaired, which is really interesting cos it has just been run on a system that dose NOT have plex installed!!

That would mean that Plex was installed at some point, as it found the files it expected. Without knowing which options you selected from the database repair tool I cant tell you exactly what it did. There are several repair methods available depending on how damaged your database is.

Can’t see how, things like that I always run in windows Sandbox mode first to see what it dose. No options came up when you run the windows bat file, it just spat out a bunch of info saying it had done this that and the other and moved 3 files

do you have a file at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server\Plug-in Support\Databases\PlexDBRepair.log ? Without knowing what that actually said, I cant tell you exactly what it did. That batch file dumps your current database into a new copy, and then moves the original databases to a dbtmp folder, the…

@morpheus2n2 A corrupt database can cause the problems you are experiencing. There may be other issues, but the first step in fixing things is repairing the database. The post I linked in my first reply shows the output of the repair process. That is from Plex Media Server running on my Windows …

Ok worked it out, and its now run properly on the main plex machine and has fixed the DB, just hoping its the last of the mess :smiley:

An old issue from 2 years ago keep coming back, server deadlocks!

Plex Media Server

FordGuy61 September 21, 2023, 9:08pm 3

Sep 21, 2023 20:55:11.400 [8040] ERROR - [DatabaseFixups] SQLITE3:0x7ff779e23dc0, 11, database corruption at line 84326 of [a29f994989]

The database is corrupt.

You can attempt to repair it or try restoring from a backup.

Repair: See Library Not Updating - #4 by FordGuy61

Restore: Restore a Database Backed Up via ‘Scheduled Tasks’

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