PMS 1.18.5.2309 constantly crashing

[sa2000]

@Vmiyoshi

m having the exact same issue. I don’t know what they did, but this update seems to be unstable.
To give a-little added nuance - for me the issue appears when I’m “admining” marking things as played, or unplayed. I do this a lot because I’m always checking the quality of my video files. I notice it’s going o crash if the client (most likely an iOS client in my case) is taking too long to load all the “details” of a said movie or show. It may still play the file, but then quickly if I stop the play back and maybe try to play something else the UI slows down to a crawl, and nothing will play. On the server (running on a 8th Gen Intel NUC/Windows 10 Pro) sometimes plex will load in the browse, however still be pretty unresponsive. Most of the time nothing loads. Closing Plex, and relaunching it resolves the problem. Like @bbbig wrote in his post it’s getting worse, with x.x.x.2309 being the most unstable.
Troubleshooting steps:

• Restarting Plex on the server
• Rebooting the server
• Rebooting the router
• Rebuilding the database
  I’m going to attempt to follow some steps on found online to roll back.
  I added a few pictures, this is right after I restarted Plex on the server.
  I played Big (which is a direct play on my iPhone. Moved to the middle of the movie. Then marked as played, and unplayed. Do this completely crashed the server.

I have seen two sets of issues from your logs from 3rd and 2nd February.

One is the lockout / deadlock issue resolved in Plex Media Server 1.16.8.2368 -

• The server could become unresponsive after navigating many preplay screens.
  see Plex Media Server - #315 by drzoidberg33

The other are crashes when hardware transcoding and falls into bullet 1 or 3 here

Plex Media Server Crash with Hardware Acceleration Enabled

There is a later consolidated summary in another thread which i will paste here. Consolidating all info relating to crashes and hardware acceleration Following the test of new Intel driver by @Geran and previous feedback from @d0cx, we now have a conclusion to these crashes. So to summarize the fixes for Plex Media Server crashes when hardware acceleration is in use Intel Graphics Adapter Driver bug - leading to crash of the Plex Media Server process in module igdumdim32.dll This is now f…