"Something went wrong" constantly as I try to access a title

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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That was disabled. All I have enabled of those library settings is ‘generate intro video markers’ and ‘analyze audio tracks for sonic features’

I’ve downgraded PMS to v1.24.0.4930 in the meantime

edit: Sorry, didn’t see your last reply line. The biggest issue for me in upgrading anything is my storage solution for my media library. I’ll have to do more research as to what is possible.
I don’t remember the process but I believe backing up the pms database is fairly simple, just a matter of copying some files and putting them back in post-install and while the pms service is stopped, correct? By doing so, will I keep my collections?

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we don’t need to upgrade anything for your media.

All we would need to do is make a tar file of your PMS /var/lib/plexmediaserver , save that file on the media storage (about 10GB), then do the OS.

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Thank you. I’ll let it ride with a downgraded PMS for a few days and see how I go for now

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Just wanted to give an update on this

I downgraded the PMS software but that didn’t help so I upgraded Ubuntu to 18.04. That came with its own set of headaches but eventually I got it going and that has greatly helped the player, so thank you. I still get the odd “something went wrong” but I click ok and it goes through. All of my media has gone through to playing as expected since the OS upgrade; ie it’s not stalling out when trying to play media anymore. I’d like to eventually get rid of these ‘something went wrong’ errors but I’m wondering if that’s the price I pay for not having my media stored locally.

The one annoying thing from the OS upgrade is that my network gremlin has returned, causing those network alerts from earlier, and I’ve tried to pinpoint it in several ways but am simply not able to find which device is causing it. The only thing that changed was the PMS so it has to be that but all of the network settings are the same, I had it keep the previous config file and all the information is correct, shrug. So that’s extremely annoying. But other than that, things are working MUCH better so I thank you very much for that.

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I think it’s now to the point where you can & should start stress testing the network between specific hosts.

What this will do is allow you to see if there are any weaknesses

One way to do this:

  1. Install iperf3 on your main central server computer. I install it on my NAS since everything reads from there.

  2. Install that same iperf3 on each of the clients. ( iperf3 is available for everything including android and yes it does run on a Google Chromecast haha )

  3. On the server start the ‘server mode’ iperf3 -s

  • It will tell you it’s running on port 5201
  1. For each of the computers run a traffic test in each direction. It looks like this:
[chuck@lizum ~.2000]$ iperf3 -c papyplex
Connecting to host papyplex, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.0.13 port 40336 connected to 192.168.0.18 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.35 Gbits/sec    0   1.65 MBytes       
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.41 Gbits/sec    0   1.65 MBytes       
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  1.10 GBytes  9.42 Gbits/sec    0   1.65 MBytes       
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  1.10 GBytes  9.41 Gbits/sec    0   1.65 MBytes       
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.41 Gbits/sec    0   1.65 MBytes       
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  1.10 GBytes  9.42 Gbits/sec    0   1.74 MBytes       
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  1.10 GBytes  9.42 Gbits/sec    0   1.74 MBytes       
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.41 Gbits/sec    0   1.74 MBytes       
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  1.10 GBytes  9.42 Gbits/sec   14   1.44 MBytes       
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes  9.42 Gbits/sec    0   1.48 MBytes       
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  11.0 GBytes  9.41 Gbits/sec   14             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  10.9 GBytes  9.40 Gbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.
[chuck@lizum ~.2001]$ iperf3 -c papyplex -R
Connecting to host papyplex, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host papyplex is sending
[  5] local 192.168.0.13 port 40344 connected to 192.168.0.18 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  1.04 GBytes  8.96 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.33 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.39 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  1.08 GBytes  9.25 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.34 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  1.08 GBytes  9.30 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  1.08 GBytes  9.29 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.38 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  1.09 GBytes  9.36 Gbits/sec                  
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  1.06 GBytes  9.11 Gbits/sec                  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec  10.8 GBytes  9.26 Gbits/sec    0             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  10.8 GBytes  9.27 Gbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.
[chuck@lizum ~.2002]$

Command line options:

  • -t NNN = run the test for NNN seconds (this is where you stress it)
  • -R = Remote host sends data

To test the switch, use 4 devices and make certain the switch can handle the load of all 4 devices,.

Scale up as appropriate.

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