Server Version#:1.25.0.5246 Player Version#: Web I am running Plex media server on Ubuntu server 20.04 and the database keeps getting issues. I have tried to recover the database using the a Plex SQLite tool and tried to take a SQL dump off the database and recreating it, but these fixes don’t see…

I am pretty sure this had something to with the Plex DB having an issue with the old metadata agent. Since I upgraded my libraries to the new Plex agent it had been running flawlessly. I tested this theory by manually linking an item to its IMDB page and the DB got corrupted halting PMS within 30 mi…

Not a dev, but I my gut says you have several degrees of database corruption. (Full crash, and your “working” setup) I bet you do not have a fully clean database, and at some point when plex its doing its scheduled tasks it continues to hit that corruption and “breaks”. Its probably way too late to …

I’d concur with layers of corruption. This doc might be of help Move Viewstate/Ratings from One Install to Another | Plex Support If what you describe happened to me I’d do the following… Export your current view status from the your current db. Once done start again with a fresh plex db and insta…

Thanks for the suggestions, however I would like to add some more info that may be relevant: I have several backups of the plex database, going back to 10/15/2021 for Windows and as far back as 11/19/2021 on Ubuntu I moved my Plex server from a Win 10 machine to Ubuntu around 10/28/2021 This issue…

Plex on Linux runs under username “plex” by default, but I was having some issues with that, specifically being able to write to a NAS. To resolve this I changed the default user to for the plex. The method to change the default user for Plex in Linux is shown in the following link: https://dausrud…

Confirm that the DB is on local storage?

@aliakhter That procedure is out of date. “PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER” has not been used since Ubuntu 16 was introduced. It is only valid for SYS V Linux systems (pid 1 = init) May I suggest reviewing: [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Tips & Tricks …

Yes, the database is on local storage.

I updated Plex and that seems to have solved the problem. I did have to recover the DB from a backup once, but since then I have not had any issues for about 10. I did change a few settings, I was having issues with Plex automatically scanning daily, so I switched to manually triggering scans. I als…

Recurring database corruption on Ubuntu Server

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aliakhter December 5, 2021, 6:21am 10

I commented out the “PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER” change, the rest looks ok. I was only using the override for the user, nothing else like PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR, therefore the database is in the default location.

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Recurring database corruption on Ubuntu Server

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