I saw that Plex Media Server 1.25.4.5426 was released on the beta channel and touted a bunch of fixes for databases and the like, so I excitedly decided to give it a try in hopes that it helped with the issues I’ve been experiencing here.
Alas, no. It helps nothing. I’m still crashing everyday during scheduled tasks from a burst of increased RAM usage. I’m still waiting for a fix to the issue. Unfortunately, my server host is killing my Plex instance before a crash report can be generated (out of fairness for the other users on the server). So all I can offer at this time is my logs.
Plex Media Server Logs_2022-01-24_14-13-56.zip (4.4 MB)
I’ve still been holding out for an update fix to this issue because I haven’t been able to find a workable solution to save and reimplement the metadata on my server. I have a significant amount of shows and movies that I’ve either had to correct a mismatch from Plex on or manually supply the metadata and posters for. I really don’t want to have to lose that and start over. I don’t want to forget which ones had these particular concerns and have them just become lost in the database that Plex would attempt to recreate from scratch. I also have concerns of the many different playlists created that are attached to my server losing everything. Again, so much of this has come down to all of the time and effort put into maintaining this information over the past several years. I’m being stubborn in giving those up simply because Plex implemented a database update that screwing things up for on my server host that they have yet to fix.
This has been incredibly frustrating as it feels like I’ve been left out to the wolves to fend for myself and the preservation for my server by the Plex engineers. I’ve been using Plex for nearly a decade at this point and solidified my relationship with the software when I purchased my Plex Pass Lifetime subscription back in 2017. While there have been many issues over the years varying in degrees of frustration, this has been the only time that I’ve experience something that I can’t just out right ignore and move on from. I’m becoming a bit desperate as I’m essentially begging for any help/assistance in correcting this issue so that I can continue forward with the server I first set up many years ago and not just have to throw it all away and start over. Please help.
