Server crashing after latest update to 1.15.0 - Logs included

Excellent News that you narrowed the problem to a single album.

Your google drive link gives me an error. Could you provide me the album files as you have them in the library - you can share link by private message and i do want to see the logs with debug logging enabled after one of these crashes

Thanks

Thank you very much. It is a similar crash but in your case I do not believe we were doing video preview thumbnailing at the time - but other media analysis

The problem we have is that we are not getting any dumps created for these xc0000409 Stack overrrun crashes

@bb1200x believes it is certain media files give rise to the crashes - so that would be a good way to get us repro the failure

Lets see if the next overnight crash is processing the same item

We can work out what the item that was being refreshed by making a request in the browser to the server - but you will need to find the server token string - see https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/

The requests for the last few items being refreshed before crashing would be

http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/383533?X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxx

http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/403482?X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxx

http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/431687?X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxx

http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/403360?X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxx

Replace the xxxxxxx with the server token
And for each copy the response to a text file and save each

Please let me have the responses and then we can see if the crash is replicated by processing these items in scheduled tasks

Also any more logs for crashes

1.15.0.659 = scan = crash, glad i’m not the only one.
Joining in the Misery

1.15.0.659 on Windows 7 here. I’d attach server logs, but at this point I’m three seconds from erasing PMS altogether and demanding my annual sub refunded.

My issue i laid out elsewhere, but summarized – I’m trying to make changes to my library setup due to an AWOL drive and changed folder positions (I’m moving everything from that drive to newer drives) and Plex is crashing with grand repeatability and not saving the changes. It’s also crashed on cleaning bundles, emptying trash, and library scans.

I’m thinking I need to roll back a few versions to one that actually works.

Optimization seems to be running okay. Next crash, though…

Oh, so I first have to uninstall and start from scratch? I can’t just roll back to an earlier version?

lets hope 1.15.1.686(or later) is released soon, this multi-times a day crashing is a headache and a first for Plex Server(for me) in 5years~ of using it

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That was a very specific fix to a specific situation that arose because of the number of scheduled recordings.

If you have crashes / issues, point me to where you posted debug server logs and i will have a look

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cool, where would i post? thanks!

if it is crashing and windows 10 then here - otherwise new topic and link to it from here

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got it will do; running latest on server2012, so i guess a new thread and i’ll put the link here; I’ve enabled debug, it last crashed overnight nite, is start some scanning and and post after the next crash/ is there anything i would need to remove from the log before posting? (any key that would relate to my account/etc)
thanks you!

server just crashed; downloaded logs to zip file; reviewing the data within; not something i’d like posted to a public forum; is there another way to provide the zip file for your review?

I’ll have to start a new topic and throw logs in there, as I’m in Win7. Not for a day, though…too much crap to handle at home right now.

It is all windows - keep it here. I will edit the title

another crash; is there a way to pass you the log without posting in public?

No idea if any of these are useful, and the zip file itself seems awfully small.

Plex LOGS 02-16-2019.zip (2.1 MB)

I’ll upload a link for the database files shortly. They might be in some way instructive, I do not know. I’m probably not bothering to repair them as I’m doing the rollback.

Database :

Edited by sa2000 - link removed. database link saved

Yes both useful - the logs and db

The logs show two issues
One is the crashes and that is being investigated by the development team,
You had 9 crashes in 3 day period

The other issue appears to be to do with time to process requests and access the sqlite3 database. Requests and actions are taking far too long to process and leading to timeouts and client app failures

Having seen the database i can understand why - it is a 3Gb database with a million items. Is this on SSD Drive? If not, you should consider it
and also run a database optimize -see library actions
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200392106-library-actions/

It’s more like 70 crashes in four days. The 659 version is terribly hinky. The database issue is weird…it’s optimized regularly because of the size of it; it shouldn’t be a million items, even where two different libraries point to the same folders. There is currently the issue of not being ble to deleted the pointers for moved libraries, though.

I’ve rolled back to the last non-Plex Pass version - 1.14.1.5488 – and it’s staying upright thus far, although it’s still reluctant to remove those old pointers. As it stands, the next library scan is going to be hellacious.

I’m going to crunch on through, however, and then set up a new box to act as a server and port everything over (as per the FAQ) in the next bit of time. The SSD suggestion is excellent, and I’ll see about getting an SSD into the new box. Had I my druthers, I’d have the libraries on SSDs, but that’ll have to wait until capacity goes up and price comes way down.

Considering I have a Mac Mini here that’s doing mostly nothing, I might even just set up Plex there. Makes it a little more of a PITA to get media from the new directory on Brain to the Mac, though.