Plex server suddenly not starting on Raspberry Pi after crashed update

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I run Plex Media Server on a Raspbian Raspberry Pi named Sona. It’s been running fine for months until today. Earlier today, an apt-get update locked mid update and rebooted the Pi. Since then it’s been flaky. When running my windows Plex login, it initially said had the following.
The message the server initially creates says:

There was an unexpected error loading the dashboard
Please visit our forums if you continue to experience problems
Then it says:
The server “Sona” is unavailable
Plex will automatically try to reconnect to this server
On the sidebar it says:
The server “Sona” is unreachable. Make sure it’s running, double check your network, and try again.
Reading through the documentation best I can, I followed various instructions, including trying to access the Plex server from the Pi itself. When going to http://127.0.0.1/32400/web, it comes back with:
This site can’t be reached
127.0.0.1 refused to connect.
The apt-get update seemed to be updating a lot of libraries including ‘mono’ from what I remember. My Sonarr installation seems to be 100% fine. No idea what to do next, except post here to the forums.

Thanks in advance for any help with this! :smiley:

You are not the only one. :crying_cat_face:

Also having issues here. I don’t think I had a crashed update. Anyway, looks like a Pi thing…

More info here: Negative unwatched episode count (and Release Date ordering is random) and here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=235586&p=1441706&hilit=raspi+copies+and+fills

Ok, just enter this

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem-v6l.so sudo rm /etc/ld.so.preload

at the command line, reboot, and things should work again!

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Very strange, but seems to have done it! Thanks! :smiley:

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