PMS Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 sudden death

Server Version#: plexmediaserver_1.16.6.1559
Player Version#:
This AM PMS was dead; tried rebooting server; reinstalling same server version over itself and even down grading but no love. Service pms status doesn’t really tell me anything useful. Any ideas how I can further diagnose start up problem? Everything else on my server works fine. Thanks.

sudo service plexmediaserver status
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-09-11 07:41:29 EDT; 8min ago
Process: 11123 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-release | awk -F= "{print \$2}" | tr -d \" )" PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_DEVICE="PC" PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_MODEL="(uname
Process: 11121 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d “{PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "{PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 11123 (code=exited, status=255)

Sep 11 07:41:29 theonlycure systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 11 07:41:29 theonlycure systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Sep 11 07:41:29 theonlycure systemd[1]: Stopped Plex Media Server.
Sep 11 07:41:29 theonlycure systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 11 07:41:29 theonlycure systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Sep 11 07:41:29 theonlycure systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server.

Please manually make a tarball (.tar.gz) of the Logs directory and attach it.
I will see what PMS complains at.

logs.tar.gz (4.4 MB)

Thank you

Database corruption… Am I reading the logs right?

Unfortunately yes.

Restore one of the backups (a copy) as the primary.
Be certain to change ownership to plex:plex

Thank you so much.

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