There is clearly an initialization issue here.
I am not sure where to go with this.
We need another machine, on a different OS, with the same CPU to confirm if PMS or the OS
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.399 [0x1480b7ccdb38] DEBUG - Content-Length of /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-ac8ee76c0/WebClient.bundle/Contents/Resources/static/b47e1e549516948eea36.woff2 is 74059 (of total: 74059).
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.401 [0x1480be1f6b38] DEBUG - Completed: [192.168.0.202:54666] 200 GET /web/static/b47e1e549516948eea36.woff2 (9 live) #a6 GZIP 2ms 74059 bytes (pipelined: 13)
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.406 [0x1480bc89db38] DEBUG - [Req#ab/Transcode] TPU: hardware transcoding: enabled, but no hardware decode accelerator found
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.409 [0x1480bc89db38] INFO - [Req#ab/Transcode] CodecManager: starting EAE at "/tmp/pms-5d9436f8-19e2-4d98-a5cb-d4eecab32255/EasyAudioEncoder"
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.409 [0x1480bc89db38] DEBUG - [Req#ab/Transcode/JobRunner] Job running: "/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Codecs/EasyAudioEncoder-1847-linux-x86_64/EasyAudioEncoder/EasyAudioEncoder"
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.409 [0x1480bc89db38] DEBUG - [Req#ab/Transcode/JobRunner] In directory: "/tmp/pms-5d9436f8-19e2-4d98-a5cb-d4eecab32255/EasyAudioEncoder"
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.411 [0x1480bc89db38] DEBUG - [Req#ab/Transcode/JobRunner] Jobs: Starting child process with pid 375
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.414 [0x1480bc89db38] DEBUG - [Req#ab/Transcode] [Universal] Using local file path instead of URL: /media/library/movies/Nope (2022)/Nope.2022.IMAX.2160p.BluRay.REMUX.HEVC.DTS-HD.MA.TrueHD.7.1.Atmos-FGT.mkv
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.415 [0x1480bc89db38] DEBUG - [Req#ab/Transcode] TPU: hardware transcoding: final decoder: , final encoder:
Feb 17, 2023 20:58:02.418 [0x1480bc89db38] DEBUG - [Req#ab/Transcode/JobRunner] Job running: EAE_ROOT=/tmp/pms-5d9436f8-19e2-4d98-a5cb-d4eecab32255/EasyAudioEncoder FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS='/config/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/2584b51-4483-linux-x86_64/' X_PLEX_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx45b2-9b5b-b462e70c95bd "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder" -codec:0 hevc -codec:1 truehd_eae -eae_prefix:1
Stupid question time.
In the same spirit as I’ve done with my VMware NUC, might you have a boot USB disk you can install Ubuntu 20.04.5 on?