I haven’t done anything to my server and now my Plex Server App won’t even open/run on my machine. I click to open and nothing. It looks like it’s crashing right after I click. I’ve tried restarting and it just won’t open. My guess is that this has something to do with the recent update. Really annoying. I can’t access anything. Is there any way to roll this back to the previous version? Overall, my experience with Plex has been very buggy. I hope their is more attention paid to stability in the future. The Apple TV app is littered with exclamation warning and I have to constantly close and reopen it. Any ideas on how to get this back up and running without losing all my settings?
If the Plex Media Server won’t start and doesn’t even get to the stage where it’ll be writing to the server logs, you can attempt the following procedure to see if there’s any error messages on the OS level:
Open Finder and navigate to /Applications
Select Show Content from the context menu of the Plex Media Server.app item
Navigate to Contents/MacOS
Open the Terminal app
Drag the Plex Media Server executable from the Finder window (#3) into the Terminal Window and press Return to execute it
This is no different from running the app, so it won’t succeed – but you should get a more specific error message about what’s causing it to fail starting.
Thank you for the help and quick response! I received the following error/response after running directly through Terminal? Thoughts on a fix and what may have caused the issue?
Error: Unable to setup server: sqlite3_statement_backend::prepare: database disk image is malformed for SQL: PRAGMA cache_size=2000 (N4soci10soci_errorE)
It looks like your database got corrupted. This can happen if Plex is stopped while writing to the database (e.g. due to an immediate shutdown of the Mac or a crash).
Thank you! We just had a power outage due to storms the other day, so that makes complete sense. I am working to restore the database from my backup drive. Thanks, again. I think this should do it
