Hi. I have a problem with my Plex system using Linux 16.04. This has happened twice, and on both times the server required a hard reboot of the entire machine to fix it, which isn’t ideal. The server remains “active” when checking via service plexmediaserver status, but inaccessible via plex.tv or…

Plex crashes, then service gets stuck on "deactivating" and only a full shutdown of the system fixes it

sa2000 July 11, 2018, 4:38pm 10

Plex Media Server version 1.13.4.5251 has just been released as beta. It has fixes for two deadlocks following investigations from diagnostics provided in this forum thread

See Release Notice Plex Media Server

(Playback) Rare deadlock with stopping sessions (#8659)
(Streaming Brain) Rare deadlock involving bandwidth limits (#8498)

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Plex crashes, then service gets stuck on "deactivating" and only a full shutdown of the system fixes it

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