# Plex Crashes on Launch

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashes-on-launch/227861>\
**Category:** Apps & Creations\
**Tags:** server-linux-arm\
**Created:** [March 4, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashes-on-launch/227861 "2018-03-04T23:19:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jase\_Bleazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jase\_Bleazard](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jase_Bleazard)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashes-on-launch/227861/1 "2018-03-04T23:19:40Z")

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Sorry for the double question but…

I finally got my Plex working but when I rebooted my raspberry pi it wasn’t working. I get this output from `journalctl -xe`

```
Mar 04 23:00:48 raspberrypi sudo[4721]: root : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl start plexmediaserver
Mar 04 23:00:48 raspberrypi sudo[4721]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Mar 04 23:00:48 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server for Linux...
-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has begun starting up.
Mar 04 23:00:48 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server for Linux.
-- Subject: Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit plexmediaserver.service has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
Mar 04 23:00:48 raspberrypi sudo[4721]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi sh[4731]: ****** PLEX MEDIA SERVER CRASHED, CRASH REPORT WRITTEN: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Crash Reports/1.11.3.4803-c40bba82e/PLEX MEDIA SERVER/3686ff
Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi sh[4731]: Illegal instruction
Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=132/n/a
Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

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I’m not sure what is happening. The only thing I can think of it is it stopped working after I mounted a drive but that worked fine until I rebooted. The file that the message refers to is largely garbage but I can post whatever part of it.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![drmagoo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/drmagoo/32/13982_2.png) [@drmagoo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drmagoo)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashes-on-launch/227861/2 "2018-03-05T11:59:56Z")

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> @“Jase Bleazard” said:  
> /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Crash Reports/1.11.3.4803-c40bba82e/PLEX MEDIA SERVER/3686ff  
> Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi sh[4731]: **Illegal instruction**  
> Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=132/n/a  
> Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Unit entered failed state.  
> Mar 04 23:00:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
> 
> I’m not sure what is happening. The only thing I can think of it is it stopped working after I mounted a drive but that worked fine until I rebooted. The file that the message refers to is largely garbage but I can post whatever part of it.

Edit:  
Which Raspberry Pi do you own? OK, it’s a RPi 3 ^^

Have you overclocked your RPi? We had reports by users, where the CPU of the RPi 2/3 overheated and produced the illegal instruction errors.

Please also reinstall the plex binaries and the codecs:

```bash
# stop plex
sudo systemctl stop plexmediaserver
# remove the codes
sudo rm -r /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/*
# reinstall the plex binaries
sudo apt-get install --reinstall plexmediaserver-installer

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-crashes-on-launch/227861/3 "2020-01-08T19:41:42Z")

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