# PMS Randomly Crashing

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-randomly-crashing/602768>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-randomly-crashing/602768 "2020-06-12T12:48:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-randomly-crashing/602768/8 "2020-06-15T23:53:44Z")

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> [@PhillySnaps](#):
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> Beginning in May, PMS would jus stop running. The icon leaves the taskbar. Sometimes in a minute and sometimes in a few hours. I have rolled back to my last stable version and all is fine. - Now I am afraid to update.

The only crash that started in May was the one that was in beta **1.19.3.2831** which was released on May 18th

This was addressed soon after in **1.19.3.2843** which was released on May 21st.

> [@Plex Media Server](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/344):
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> Plex Media Server 1.19.3.2843 is now available to everyone NEW: Intro detection (Web) Updated to 4.30.2 FIXES: (Intro Detection) A rare crash on old windows hardware (DVR) Server would not invoke Plex Commercial Skipper under certain cases. (DVR) Server would sometimes fail to consume EPG data from certain XMLTV data files. (#11368) (First Run) Music libraries added during setup wizard could fail to be created (#11432) (Playlists) Adding an item to a playlist from a remote server didn’t wo…

- (Intro Detection) A rare crash on old windows hardware

Anyway logs would confirm it.

I would recommend upgrading to the current release which is now a public release and not beta - **1.19.4.2935**

> [@Plex Media Server](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/351):
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> Plex Media Server 1.19.4.2935 is now available to everyone NEW: (DVR) XMLTV users can now specify categories for Kids content. (#11267) (DVR) XMLTV users can specify a custom guide refresh rate. (#10787) (Debian) Add host information to bottom of installer log for diagnosing problems. FIXES: (Butler) Periodic music refreshes didn’t refresh albums and tracks (#11475) (DVR) Episodes may end up with 1900-01-01 dates with certain XMLTV EPG files that provide date instead of original-air-date. …

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