Plex server on pi wont start

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Server Version#: 1.19.1.2701

I just built a new pi system. I installed plex and it keeps crashing at startup. I cant find any log information that is useful. not sure where to start. if I had useful log info I could probably figure this out. Any ideas?

● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2020-04-28 16:28:59 CDT; 4min 13s ago
Process: 823 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d “{PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "{PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 830 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-release | awk -F= "{print \$2}" | tr -d \" )"; export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_DEVICE="PC"; export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_MODEL="(uname -m
Main PID: 830 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)

Apr 28 16:28:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Apr 28 16:28:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Apr 28 16:28:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Apr 28 16:28:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 28 16:28:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘signal’.
Apr 28 16:28:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
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this is all the log contains

Plex Media Server.log

Apr 28, 2020 16:28:54.263 [0x73a28450] INFO - Plex Media Server v1.19.1.2701-6327e27bf - Raspbian GNU/Linux PC armv7l - build: linux-armv7hf_neon debian - GMT -05:00
Apr 28, 2020 16:28:54.267 [0x73a28450] INFO - Linux version: 10 (buster), language: en-US
Apr 28, 2020 16:28:54.267 [0x73a28450] INFO - Processor Arm
Apr 28, 2020 16:28:54.267 [0x73a28450] INFO - /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
Apr 28, 2020 16:28:54.273 [0x76fdc920] DEBUG - BPQ: [Idle] -> [Starting]
Apr 28, 2020 16:28:54.273 [0x76fdc920] VERBOSE - BPQ: delaying processing 120 second(s)
Apr 28, 2020 16:28:54.462 [0x76fdc920] DEBUG - Job running: ‘/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/CrashUploader’ '–directory=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cras$

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[chuck@lizum ~.503]$ cat /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/start.sh 
#!/bin/sh
#SCRIPTPATH=$(dirname $(python -c 'import sys,os;print os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1])' $0))
SCRIPT=$(readlink -f $0)
SCRIPTPATH=`dirname ${SCRIPT}`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${SCRIPTPATH}/lib"
export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME="${SCRIPTPATH}"
export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
ulimit -s 3000
./Plex\ Media\ Server
[chuck@lizum ~.504]$

You’ll have this in your /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources as legacy script.
It should run for you as-is from cd /usr/lib/plexmediaserver (run as root, find the problem, clean up afterwards)

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Odd. It’s telling me ‘no such table: schema_migrations for SQL’.

The database is from another machine (older version of pi), it works there.

I pulled the USB drive out, put it in a third machine, opened the database, and that table is there.
The database is in the correct folder.
The permissions are 777

I have no idea why it doesn’t like this database. Does the new PI PlexServer have some new database format that is different from the older versions?

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