Server Version#: 1.42.2.10156 Player Version#: N/A My PMS logs are filled with that error. What causes it and how to fix it? My transcoding device has a TB of free space. Plex Media Server Logs_2026-01-15_06-16-23.zip (1.2 MB)

I don’t think it’s an inotify problem: root@server-pc:~# sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 124764 root@server-pc:~# find /proc/*/fd -user plex -lname anon_inode:inotify -printf ‘%hinfo/%f\n’ 2>/dev/null | xargs cat | grep -c ‘^inotify’ 7967 root@server-pc:~# fin…

The client app playback is most likely paused and sending websocket keepalive. The Plex apps stopped doing this some time ago (a few years) so shouldn’t be happening with any of the current apps. When does it occur ? Which player ?

I think my friend was streaming from his Samsung TV (not 100% sure, I’ll ask him tonight). He was watching a show and got about 30 minutes in and his Plex client threw a “an unexpected playback problem occurred” error. He hit OK and was able to get right back in and continue watching. Since I wasn’…

The clients throwing this event is harmless. It is just messy in the logs. The “No space left on device” error is a problem which I will setup a VM for and see if I can recreate it. I have more than enough media (thanks for your folder counts) to replicate. Gut-feel is that it’s a Debian 13 issu…

Yep, Debian 13 is fully up to date. Good to know that the messy logs is nothing to worry about. I’m going to have him do some more testing tonight. I’m hoping it was just a random error but I’ll let you know.

Good news… my friend watched another episode last night and didn’t encounter the error so I guess (hope) it was just a fluke.

I setup a new Debian 13 VM yesterday (two attempts) It blew up in my face – total failure. If you have any suggestions, I’m willing.

This is EAE. You’ll be using EAE any time you play content with a Dolby codec (EAC3 or TrueHD but AC3 doesn’t count here) where the audio is transcoded. It decodes audio samples in a dir within /tmp and that’s what it is complaining about. Also, if you are using a docker container you may need to…

Really sorry for the delayed reply…. been traveling for work :frowning: What type of problem did you run into?

Error while decoding stream #0:1: No space left on device

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FordGuy61 January 15, 2026, 12:44pm 2

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