Plex Server running on Raspberry Pi 4 Crashes every morning. Forced to reinstall to get it back up

[Mattmo831]

Server Version#: 1.22.0.4163

Started happeninng 2 days ago where i go to look at my plex and it says my server is unavailable.

While its crashed when checking " systemctl status plexmediaserver.service" I get (abridged as it is running right now)

plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Failed to start Plexmediaserver.

at first i thought it was an issue with permissions to i changed the owner of the plexmediaserver folder to pi:pi, that didnt work. changed it back to plex:plex and did a full reinstall by doing the following.

sudo dpkg -r plexmediaserver
sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver

and then boom it works.

then again this morning it crashed again. A system reboot did not fix. I had to reinstall using those two commands again to get it working. This server has been running for about 7 months with no issues until recently.

Attached are the logs i downloaded when i got my system back up today. Any help would be grateful.

Plex Media Server Logs_2021-03-19_17-27-41.zip (3.0 MB)

[Mattmo831]

Right on the dot at around 8 o clock it crashed again and refuses to start back up without reinstalling. Heres what i get with systemctl status plexmediaserver.service if this helps.

 plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2021-03-20 08:01:25 EDT; 38min ago
  Process: 24169 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: 24171 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)";  export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER
 Main PID: 24171 (code=exited, status=127)

Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.

[pshanew]

I had a look at your logs yesterday and bookmarked this to reply (and then forgot).

Something external to the server is commanding it to stop:

Mar 19, 2021 08:29:47.963 [0xb34ff430] DEBUG - Shutting down with signal 15 (Terminated)
Mar 19, 2021 08:29:47.963 [0xb34ff430] DEBUG - Ordered to stop server.
Mar 19, 2021 08:29:47.964 [0xb6f17730] DEBUG - Stopping server...

This particular case was at 8:29AM on the 19th. These occur on the mornings of the 17th, 18th, and 19th (and on the evening of the 17th, but that looks like a manual server restart).

It’s not clear from the logs what is signaling Plex Media Server to stop; it could be systemd or it could be the out of memory killer. Or was that you manually stopping it? Do you have any scheduled tasks which run in the timeframe the server is being stopped, a backup perhaps? Anything which might cause memory usage on the system to balloon for a period of time?

Regarding your having to uninstall and re-install to recover, that is certainly odd given that this appears to be a more or less graceful shutdown and not a crash. Can you provide the file generated by this command? It will provide the last 1000 lines of journalctl logging for the Plex Media Server service and may provide some clues as to what is preventing the service from starting again.
journalctl -xe -u plexmediaserver.service | tail -n 1000 | tee plex_jctl.log

[Mattmo831]

To answer your questions, I dont know of any scheduled service running in that time frame. This has been just a headless server ive had running since about august. I just set it up and havnt touched it since. There is no backups on this server so that wouldnt cause it. If there was a scheduled task honestly i wouldnt know. All i know is that i was not manually stopping it, and this has just started recently as you have seen in the logs.

Here is the output of that command you provided.

-- Logs begin at Fri 2021-03-19 17:07:10 EDT, end at Sat 2021-03-20 13:56:15 EDT. --
Mar 19 17:08:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 156.
Mar 19 17:08:49 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 156.
Mar 19 17:08:51 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1030]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libicudataplex.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 19 17:08:51 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 19 17:08:51 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 2600 and the job result is done.
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 2600.
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 2600.
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1226]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libicudataplex.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 19 17:08:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 3055 and the job result is done.
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 3055.
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 3055.
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[1479]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libicudataplex.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 19 17:09:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 19 17:09:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 19 17:09:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 19 17:09:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 3145 and the job result is done.
Mar 19 17:09:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 19 17:09:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 19 17:09:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished with a failure.
--
-- The job identifier is 3145 and the job result is failed.
Mar 19 17:26:36 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 3460.
Mar 19 17:26:36 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 3460.
Mar 19 23:02:27 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[2418]: Dolby, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and the double D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
Mar 20 08:00:47 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopping Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 7513.
Mar 20 08:00:48 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Succeeded.
-- Subject: Unit succeeded
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has successfully entered the 'dead' state.
Mar 20 08:00:48 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 7513 and the job result is done.
Mar 20 08:01:09 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 7633.
Mar 20 08:01:09 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 7633.
Mar 20 08:01:09 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[24127]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libicudataplex.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 20 08:01:09 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 20 08:01:09 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 7723 and the job result is done.
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 7723.
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 7723.
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[24159]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libicudataplex.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 20 08:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 7813 and the job result is done.
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 7813.
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 7813.
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[24171]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libicudataplex.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 127.
Mar 20 08:01:20 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
-- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
-- the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
--
-- The job identifier is 7903 and the job result is done.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 20 08:01:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished with a failure.
--
-- The job identifier is 7903 and the job result is failed.
Mar 20 08:43:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 8478.
Mar 20 08:43:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
--
-- The job identifier is 8478.
Mar 20 10:31:17 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[25616]: Dolby, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and the double D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

[pshanew]

It appears to be systemd which is stopping the service:

Mar 20 08:00:47 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopping Plex Media Server...
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
--
-- The job identifier is 7513.
Mar 20 08:00:48 raspberrypi systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Succeeded.
-- Subject: Unit succeeded
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit plexmediaserver.service has successfully entered the 'dead' state.
Mar 20 08:00:48 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
-- Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support

And the subsequent start attempt ~30 seconds later fails due to a missing library dependency:

-- The job identifier is 7633.
Mar 20 08:01:09 raspberrypi Plex Media Server[24127]: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: error while loading shared libraries: libicudataplex.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

There’s known issue being discussed in a few other threads regarding the startup failure due to libicudata.so.67 being missing. @ChuckPa may (or may not) have more information on that.

Speculation follows… It’s almost as though some process is attempting to upgrade your server. The restart fails due to the missing library, leaving your server down. And you recover by uninstalling and re-installing, effectively rolling back to a working version.

[Mattmo831]

To follow up on your speculation,

I do have GitHub - mrworf/plexupdate: Plex Update script to simplify the life of Linux Plex Media Server users. running on my system and I believe that tries to update the plex server / check for an update daily, (which would explain why the server stops around the same time every day). You think if I turn that off for now until this issue is solved then that would stop the server from being stopped like that?

[pshanew]

@Mattmo831

You think if I turn that off for now until this issue is solved then that would stop the server from being stopped like that?

I think it’s very likely that would improve things, yes. That would leave your current, working installation in place until whatever issue there is with the library dependency is corrected.

[Mattmo831]

Ill uninstall it for now. Will follow up if any crashes occur / if none occur over the course of a couple days. Will keep checking however for solutions to the library dependency issue

[pshanew]

Just FYI, version 1.22.1.4228 is available now and it resolves the libicudata dependency. I’ve confirmed this release works on my Pi 4.

Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.22.1.4228 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. Please note that due to some particularly large database migrations, your first time starting up the server with this release may take an unusually long time, depending on library size, disk speed, and CPU performance. This is normal. NEW: (Library) Improved search handling of non-Latin scripts (#7896) (Library) Improved search handling of punctuation (#7833) (Web) Updated to 4.53.0 Updated Translat…

[Mattmo831]

Thanks. Updated last night and reinstalled the auto Plex updater. It stayed up overnight so this update has seemed to do the fix.