Server Version#: PlexMediaServer-1.22.2.4282-a97b03fad
We were watching a show, and then transcoder failure. I thought it was odd. I didn’t see any issue in journalctl, so I just did a systemctl restart plexmediaserver as a troubleshooting measure.
Unfortunately, service fails to start, see logs below:
Apr 21 01:31:45 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
– An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
Apr 21 01:31:45 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
– The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the ‘failed’ state with result ‘exit-code’.
Apr 21 01:31:50 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Apr 21 01:31:50 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
– Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
Apr 21 01:31:50 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
– Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
– A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
Apr 21 01:31:50 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server…
– Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
– A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
Apr 21 01:31:50 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
– Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
– A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
Apr 21 01:31:50 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
– An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
Apr 21 01:31:50 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
– The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the ‘failed’ state with result ‘exit-code’.
Apr 21 01:31:55 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Apr 21 01:31:55 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
– Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
Apr 21 01:31:55 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
– Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
– A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
Apr 21 01:31:55 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server…
– Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution
– A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has begun execution.
Apr 21 01:31:55 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
– Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully
– A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished successfully.
Apr 21 01:31:55 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
– An ExecStart= process belonging to unit plexmediaserver.service has exited.
Apr 21 01:31:55 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
– The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the ‘failed’ state with result ‘exit-code’.
Apr 21 01:32:00 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired, scheduling restart.
Apr 21 01:32:00 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
– Automatic restarting of the unit plexmediaserver.service has been scheduled, as the result for
Apr 21 01:32:00 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
– Subject: A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished
– A stop job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished.
Apr 21 01:32:00 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 21 01:32:00 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
– The unit plexmediaserver.service has entered the ‘failed’ state with result ‘exit-code’.
Apr 21 01:32:00 riggsdev-appplex01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.
– Subject: A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has failed
– A start job for unit plexmediaserver.service has finished with a failure.
Apr 21 01:33:47 riggsdev-appplex01 sudo[1458]: root : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/root ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/journalctl -
I figured I’ll do a quick reinstall to see if that helped ,but no dice. I did a apt-get remove plexmediaserver, and then apt-get install plexmediaserver
I checked logs, and nothing logged from today has much. I did see a bunch of empty log files, which I thought was odd. There are more, but this seemed to be a run of logs.
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 01:31 ‘Plex Media Server.1.log’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 01:31 ‘Plex Media Server.2.log’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 01:18 ‘Plex Media Server.3.log’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 01:18 ‘Plex Media Server.4.log’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 01:17 ‘Plex Media Server.5.log’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 01:31 ‘Plex Media Server.log’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 00:29 ‘Plex Transcoder Statistics.log.tmp.2fe8f7e2-49a2-4174-827c-564fb5baf73d’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 00:25 ‘Plex Transcoder Statistics.log.tmp.3b958808-ad66-47a6-bc27-72ceac5bdd5f’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 00:25 ‘Plex Transcoder Statistics.log.tmp.a6ef27f0-a267-4797-a7b2-2c7f28e419aa’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 00:25 ‘Plex Transcoder Statistics.log.tmp.ae21d216-2642-432a-b8ff-8dba261f450b’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 00:24 ‘Plex Transcoder Statistics.log.tmp.b7bbdb99-4ebe-43f2-9c3f-bfe64733f370’
-rw-r–r-- 1 plex plex 0 Apr 21 00:34 ‘Plex Transcoder Statistics.log.tmp.efef1a2c-7948-435b-8004-f65e8ee44713’
Any thoughts on what I should try next?
