Plex Media Server appears and disappears

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Server Version#:PlexMediaServer-1.41.4.9463-630c9f557-universal
Player Version#:plex-1-91-0-129
<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>

I have an Imac (Retina 4k, 21.5 inch Late 2015)
3.3Hgz quad core intel corei7
16 gb 1876 MHzz ddr3
Intel Iris pro

My server worked well with the previous version after I updated it the server icon appeared in the Dock but instantly disappeared. I am not a technical person so I am unsure how to get to logs and such.

Any advice would be appreciated.

FYI: I search the topics and could not find anything relating to this.

I tried rolling it back to PlexMediaServer-1.40.4.8679-424562606-universal and it still did the same.

I also tried to get to my server logs and this is what came back in terminal

jacogates@Jaco-iMac ~ % ~/Library/Logs/Plex Media Server/

zsh: permission denied: /Users/jacogates/Library/Logs/Plex

jacogates@Jaco-iMac ~ %

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I see you are operating a ten year old iMac, i believe you may need to update your hardware

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I agree, but the media server app works on my Macbook which is as old?

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Unfortunately the migration to Apple Silicon is more than a few years ago

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IS there nothing to be done then? it worked yesterday and today it stopped?

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What version of MacOS are you running?

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Mac Os Monterey 12.7.6

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If the Plex Media Server‘s menu bar icon just vanishes on startup(not getting 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:

  1. Open Finder and navigate to /Applications
  2. Select Show Content from the context menu of the Plex Media Server.app item
  3. Navigate to Contents/MacOS
  4. Open the Terminal app
  5. 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.

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Thank you tom80H
it returned this
Error: Unable to set up server: sqlite3_statement_backend::prepare: no such table: schema_migrations for SQL: select version from schema_migrations order by version (N4soci10soci_errorE)
jacogates@Jaco-iMac ~ %

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You might need to look into repairing the server’s database.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database/

You can also try using this db repair utility

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Thank you it worked!

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