# PMS Keeps quitting **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-mac\ **Created:** [January 28, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351 "2022-01-28T06:19:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/1 "2022-01-28T06:19:11Z")
Server Version#:1.25.4.5468 Player Version#:N/A I have been having this problem for a long time. I figured I would live with it since I was going to switch my PMS to a new M1 Mac mini. After the switch it went away for a while and then it came back. The problem is - I start PMS and keep it running. I will come back less than 24 hours later to see it’s quit. No errors. No power disruption. No internet disconnection. Nothing. Could someone offer some help in solving this? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/2 "2022-01-28T08:39:40Z")
Your [server logs](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) might contain a hint on what was causing this (or at least what Plex is doing when it happens). ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/3 "2022-01-28T09:43:35Z")
I am happy to post. I downloaded it but don’t know which file to post. Can you help? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/4 "2022-01-28T10:19:45Z")
You can post the entire zip file. The most relevant information should be in `Plex Media Server.log` (incl. its rolling/numbered predecessors) ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/5 "2022-01-28T17:07:30Z")
[Plex Media Server Logs\_2022-01-28\_09-16-43.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/7aFzWLTs7Qk4NmdIpXmDLIBxj5x.zip) (2.2 MB) ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/6 "2022-01-28T17:34:46Z")
There’s no immediate errors linked to your crashes. It seems the server was doing some maintenance tasks when it crashed in the night to today. Could you disable the scheduled tasks to see if that’s the case? If the crash doesn’t happen with those scheduled tasks disabled, you could subsequently re-able them one-by-one and repeat checking if it’ll crash again over night. ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/7 "2022-01-28T21:20:54Z")
What scheduled tasks are there? Sorry…this is deeper than I have gone before. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/8 "2022-01-28T21:22:33Z")
`Settings` \> `[Server Name]` \> `Scheduled Tasks` > **[Scheduled Tasks | Plex Support](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201553286-scheduled-tasks/)** > > Plex Media Server settings related maintenance performed via Scheduled Tasks. You can access these under Settings \> Server \> Scheduled... ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/9 "2022-01-29T08:10:40Z")
Should I try to turn off everything?? ![Screen Shot 2022-01-29 at 11.10.10 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/5/3/a/53aef9d43bf550dc0443bb2e0661f904197ab7df.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/10 "2022-01-29T09:56:25Z")
That’s the general idea in order to see if this any of them is causing your server crash. Given you’ve seen those crashes on a daily basis you could however also start with the daily tasks (e.g. the ones not mentioning they’re running weekly or every 3 days). ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/11 "2022-02-01T15:16:41Z")
Turned everything off and still crashed I dunno ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/12 "2022-02-04T06:26:31Z")
Anything else I should check?? ---
**Author:** ![SE56](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/se56/32/222425_2.png) [@SE56](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SE56)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/13 "2022-02-04T08:41:11Z")
I don’t like being the devil’s advocate but how have you named and structured your files and folders in your Libraries. > **[Naming and Organizing Your TV Show Files | Plex Support](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/)** > > The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from... > **[Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/)** > > The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from... So it did work, now it does not, follow the rules or not. It is now your problem as it always works till it does not. ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/14 "2022-02-04T11:13:01Z")
My naming and organization of my files has been spot on since day one(many years) For the record, the suggestion of turning off scheduled tasks has not changed anything. It worked fine for years and then it didn’t. Put up with it considering I would switch to a new computer and server. Once I made the move it worked for a little while and then it stopped. Just looking for suggestions of where to look to try to solve the problem. ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/15 "2022-02-19T07:49:30Z")
Anybody have any suggestions?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Nate8727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Nate8727](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Nate8727)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/16 "2022-02-23T16:07:49Z")
Could be a bug in the release. I had it happen once recently, but it might of been a one off issue. Have you done the database repair? That sounds like the cause. Also, it could be other apps interfering with PMS. For example, google drive doesn’t play nice at all with Mac M1 currently and causes restart issues. Check out the Mac logs to see if anything weird is showing up. ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/17 "2022-02-26T09:58:26Z")
[Plex Media Server Logs\_2022-02-26\_12-57-31.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/uCSYjYyNj1mPvXliKq4lW7tWQYC.zip) (2.8 MB) ---
**Author:** ![meakulpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@meakulpa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/meakulpa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/18 "2022-05-07T23:22:20Z")
Ok. For the first time ever I was awake when it shutdown. I had jetlag from traveling and was watching on my phone when it closed. I immediately downloaded the logs. Could you folks help in deciphering what is happening? Thanks Jim [Plex Media Server Logs\_2022-05-08\_02-18-55.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/6A9WPapRyqOh59TVOBIl7dirfZ4.zip) (3.0 MB) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-keeps-quitting/773351/19 "2022-08-05T23:22:51Z")
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