Server Version#: 1.42.1.10060 Player Version#: 8.45 I’ve been getting very frequent plex media server crashes for the last few months and I am now trying to isolate the issue. The server is an old machine that was running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and now Big Sur (11.7.10) with no change. My curre…

It crashed again over the evening yesterday while the only activity was the recording of a program; no one was watching anything.

I was looking through your various Plex Media Server.log files, and noticed this Network appears to be configured for jumbo frames. Is that true? As far as hints go on how to debug, people usually search those log files, the most recent and sometimes the 1 thru 5 named older ones like Plex Media …

Thanks for taking the time to look at my logs and replying. I don’t remember configuring jumbo frames for the network interface. I’ve had a crash while the server was not recording nor handing a file for playback on another device today. I renamed ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server a…

sounds like a plan. sometimes a thorough uninstall will sort things. While testing PMS on Macs, I wrote a shell script to automate the uninstall, which you might want to try if needed. delpms.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash rm -rf /Applications/Plex\ Media\ Server.app && echo '[1/5] deleted the app' rm …

Yeah since I was starting from a install-os-on-freshly-formatted-drive, it feels highly probable that when I restore Live TV + DVR functionality it will crash again. But it is interesting to see if it will crash with a simple setup. The sept. 4 beta seemed to crash less frequently, but it still cra…

I noticed SE56 fixed his HDHomerun issue. Maybe this will help? [image] Upgraded to macOS 26, now liveTV isn't working televisionLive TV & DVR I have a Mac Mini Pro M4 and it was not working for me after MacOS 26 update. This is what I had to do. Click on Cha…

I was unable to make the server crash when it only has to stream an existing video file, although this is not very conclusive because the tests did not span over several hours like my live tv / DVR tests. Configuring the live tv portion but not viewing live tv nor scheduling recordings did not seem…

I installed the latest beta that was released Sept. 18th to see if things would change. Still getting crashes, although the beta versions from September seem to take longer before I run into a crash. I noticed that in the MacOS utility “Console”, in the Crash Reports section, I can see all recent P…

I installed the latest release (v.1.42.2.10156-f737b826c) and it still the same - the PMS HttpServer thread crashes.

In a different macOS 26 + HDH crashing topic, I think it was pshanew figured out that the streams being captured were MPEG2 and when PMS was set to HW Transcoding, he would get a crash. His workaround was to disable HW transcoding, and the crashes stopped. I figured it might be worth reading, even…

Plex Media Server "HttpServer" thread constant crashes on Mac

Plex Media Server

nibbles September 18, 2025, 7:39am 7

I noticed SE56 fixed his HDHomerun issue. Maybe this will help?

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