PMS Crashing Mac running Mojave on 1.21.1.3876

Hi all,

Unfortunately, it would appear that PMS is causing my Mac to hang/crash. It happens at night normally but I switched off PMS last night and there was not any issues. However, when I re-started PMS, my machine crashed again at 12:30-ish

I will go back to an old stable version for now to see if that helps but I have included the log files. IF someone could check them out, I would be very grateful and I will update you with any changes

Cheers

TK

Plex Media Server Logs_2021-01-11_12-58-00.zip (1.6 MB)

Server Version#:1.21.1.3876
Player Version#: plex web:4.47.3

There are only a couple options I can suggest, Mohave is a couple years old, you might try upgrading to Catalina if your Mac will support it. Though finding a Catalina installer could be tricky unless you already have it. Optionally, you could try big Sur.

Another option maybe to backup your server files in ~/Library in preferences and Application support, and then rebuild your server from scratch, perhaps some file has become corrupted some plex process that kicks off when your mac crashes is because of a bad file or database. If that doesn’t help, you could revert by copying your original files back. There are instructions available on how to copy PMS to a new Mac, the files listed in that process are the one’s to look for to backup.

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Mystery solved - failing data drive caused my Mac to crash.

All non downloadable data backed up, so no permanent data loss !

**** When was the last time you backed up your data **** !!!

Cheers :slight_smile:

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