# PLEX Media Server Randomly Freezing Up **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** livetv-dvr, server-windows\ **Created:** [July 29, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-randomly-freezing-up/802483 "2022-07-29T14:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrATallon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mratallon/32/276668_2.png) [@MrATallon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MrATallon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-randomly-freezing-up/802483/1 "2022-07-29T14:13:20Z")
Server Version#: 1.27.2.5929 Player Version#: N/A [Plex Media Server Logs\_2022-07-29\_09-13-06.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/z56yTW1lx0MCnvATPcON2t0r8MC.zip) (4.5 MB) Configuration: Dell Optiplex Mini Intel i3-8100T CPU @ 3.10GHZ, 4GB RAM Hi Guys, So every now and again, my PLEX Media Server on my Win11 computer will just freeze up. On most occasions, it will look like its still running but its not reachable anywhere, even locally on the PC. I just can’t determine what is causing the issue, as its totally random and last night (evening time), it happened for the first time in about 3 weeks - leaving a recording short until i closed and re-opened the application. I was hoping for someone who could pinpoint what may be causing it, as I had another PLEX Server on a similar machine at a family home and they were having the exact same issue but more frequently. If I need to submit more info for assistance to feel free to let me know. Cheers, A ---
**Author:** ![rwoffice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@rwoffice](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rwoffice)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-randomly-freezing-up/802483/2 "2022-07-29T14:23:49Z")
You have the deadlock issue. Take a look at this post in this thread and PM your diagnostics and logs to @sa2000: > [@Plex Server Crashing Randomly](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-crashing-randomly/789544/67): > > I think that the issue that I am having is what is called a “deadlock”. Plex icon stays active in the system tray, but when I try to open the Plex web interface nothing loads. The clients are unable to play anything from the server as well (local and remote). I found an old post from 2018 solving an issue called “503 Service Unavailable”. To everyone else here experiencing the issue first verify that the Plex icon is still in the system tray (Windows). Here are the diagnostic steps outlined by @… ---
**Author:** ![MrATallon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mratallon/32/276668_2.png) [@MrATallon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MrATallon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-randomly-freezing-up/802483/3 "2022-07-29T15:12:18Z")
Ahh ok, this makes it feel a little better that it’s a more wider issue. Thanks for the reference ---
**Author:** ![sa2000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/sa2000/32/6922_2.png) [@sa2000](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sa2000)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-randomly-freezing-up/802483/4 "2022-08-17T14:33:36Z")
Please Media Server 1.28.2 has just been released as a beta release It has a fix for a deadlocks issue that was identified last week > [@Plex Media Server](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/525): > > Plex Media Server 1.28.2.6093 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: (HTTP) Indicate when a database migration is being run (#13651) (Web) Updated to 4.87.2 FIXES: (Collections) Playing a collection of shows/seasons resulted in no playback in certain clients (#12977) (Library) Cleaning up legacy music agent bundle files could fail when running a Clean Bundles (#13761) (Music) Read artist and album sort tags from m4a audio files (#13760) (Music) Upgrading an al… - Server could hang in certain circumstances (#13758) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-randomly-freezing-up/802483/5 "2022-11-15T14:34:09Z")
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