Plex Media Server Crashes on Start up

Server Version#: 1.15.1
Player Version#: 2.29.1.961-bb236059
Mojave: 10.14.4 Beta (18E215a)

  • click to start up and seems to crash immediately
  • didn’t find logs…
  • found these errors in console

Mar 14 00:10:44 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Player[1672]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:13:29 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x1000000d.Plex Media Player[1729]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Mar 14 00:15:32 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1786]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:15:32 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x1000000f.Plex Media Server[1786]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:15:37 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1789]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:15:37 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1789]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:16:21 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1797]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:16:21 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1797]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:17:03 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1799]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:17:03 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1799]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:20:23 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1844]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:20:23 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1844]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:20:24 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1845]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:20:24 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1845]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:20:26 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1846]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:20:26 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1846]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:20:27 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1847]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:20:27 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1847]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:20:28 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1848]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:20:28 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1848]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 00:20:30 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[1849]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 00:20:30 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[1849]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 09:54:40 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini Plex Media Server[2810]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 09:54:40 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[2810]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 09:54:54 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini Plex Media Server[2815]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 09:54:54 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[2815]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 10:07:03 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini Plex Media Server[2851]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 10:07:04 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[2851]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 10:07:06 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini Plex Media Server[2853]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 10:07:06 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[2853]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 10:13:36 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini Plex Media Server[2884]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 10:13:36 Terrences-2018-Mac-mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[2884]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
Mar 14 10:17:15 Terrenc2018Mini Plex Media Server[475]: DEPRECATED USE in libdispatch client: dispatch source activated with no event handler set; set a breakpoint on _dispatch_bug_deprecated to debug
Mar 14 10:17:15 Terrenc2018Mini com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.21204[475]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255

Not seeing this issue with Mojave 10.14.3. Anyway awhile ago had a similar crashing issue so I just installed again and swapped out PMS from applications folder. Problem resolved.

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Thanks…

I have backups and was able to roll back my OS to Mojave 10.14.4 Beta (18E194d) from 10.14.4 Beta (18E194d) Problem resolved…

now I live in fear of upgrading… ugh!

That’s the same instal version. That would be a bad download of a install? Is that your assumption?

Yes, my assumption is there might be an incompatibility between Plex 1.15.1 and Mojave 10.14.4 Beta (18E194d)… could also be that something happened to become corrupted unrelated to comparability… cannot be sure I guess…

See my Plex updated to 1.15.2.793… was on previous version… could also resolve problem I was having…?

Going to leave as is for a while… until I have more time… lol…

So after rolling back Mac to Mojave 10.14.4 Beta (18E194d)… I then updated Plex Media Server (PMS) to version 1.15.2.793… then updated Mac OS back to Mojave 10.14.4 Beta (18E215a) and everything seems to be working fine again :crossed_fingers:t5:

Plex Media Server version 1.15.2.793

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