Failed to start Plex Media Server

I haven’t made any changes to my Plex setup on Centos 7. However now Plex refuses to start.
Plex also failed to start on the previous version to 1.24.4.5081. Where do I start to look to fix this
issue?

Server Version#: 1.24.4.5081
Player Version#:

[root@saturn ~]# systemctl status plexmediaserver.service -l
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2021-10-15 10:17:42 CDT; 52s ago
Process: 3928 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="$(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-release | awk -F= “{print $2}” | tr -d " )" PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_DEVICE=“PC” PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_MODEL="$(uname -m)" PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_PLATFORM_VERSION="$(grep ^VERSION= /etc/os-release | awk -F= “{print $2}” | tr -d " )" “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server” (code=exited, status=255)
Process: 3925 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” || /bin/mkdir -p “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 3928 (code=exited, status=255)

Oct 15 10:17:37 saturn.boster.co systemd[1]: Unit plexmediaserver.service entered failed state.
Oct 15 10:17:37 saturn.boster.co systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service failed.
Oct 15 10:17:42 saturn.boster.co systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 15 10:17:42 saturn.boster.co systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Oct 15 10:17:42 saturn.boster.co systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for plexmediaserver.service
Oct 15 10:17:42 saturn.boster.co systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.

Can you check out the server logs of your Plex Media Server to see what’s causing that issue? If Plex fails to start, the Plex Media Server.log file should be relatively lean.

I found the issue. It was a corrupt database. I restored the db from a backup. Up and working again.

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