Plex media server on FreeNAS jail keeps dying

[andy_anfieldroad_net]

Server Version#: 1.14.1.5488
Player Version#: N/A

Hi,
I keep finding after a while my plex media server running in a manually setup jail on FreeNAS is no longer running and must be restarted.

My workaround has been to install a crontab:
*/1 * * * * service plexmediaserver status || { service plexmediaserver start && logger -p local0.notice -t PLEX “Plex Media Server died and was restarted”; }

This is self explanatory. I would like to find a longer term solution.

I find nothing in the logs sadly. They are in /usr/local/plexdata/Plex\ Media\ Server\Logs and for some reason they are not being populated with last entries going back to 30th Dec.

What can I do to get the logs back. I find no other log files having searched extensively. I know without these we have little chance of resolving the issue.

[andy_anfieldroad_net]

This is an example of how frequently the service is dying. As it is this is unusable:

messages:Jan 18 03:13:06 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 04:41:07 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 06:10:09 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 07:26:07 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 08:37:01 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 09:47:15 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 10:58:07 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 12:09:13 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 15:07:03 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 16:18:06 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 17:28:12 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 18:39:09 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting
messages:Jan 18 20:57:13 plex PLEX: Plex not running, restarting

You can’t watch anything without plex dying in the middle of what you are watching.

[andy_anfieldroad_net]

Sorry logs do exist, I was forgetting I mounted a separate volume on my NAS for config.

Nothing jumps out at me in the logs though. I searched through the logs but no relevant messages in the logs align with the times above that the server failed.

I don’t believe it is the version as I am running the same version on my Centos 6 system for which was plex was intended to be decommed on to be replaced by the jail on FreeNAS.