Server Version#: v.1.40.2.8273-7630a4c43 (MacOS)
Player Version#: Plex Web 4.126.1
<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>
After applying the update to this version of the beta server, the software loads but does not “run”. If I click on the icon in the tool tray it says “Server is starting” with the MacOS “spinning flower” and stays like this forever.
HELP!!! 
If the Plex Media Server won’t start and doesn’t even get to the stage where it’ll be writing to the server logs, you can attempt the following procedure to see if there’s any error messages on the OS level:
/ApplicationsShow Content from the context menu of the Plex Media Server.app itemContents/MacOSTerminal appPlex Media Server executable from the Finder window (#3) into the Terminal Window and press Return to execute itThis is no different from running the app, so it won’t succeed – but you should get a more specific error message about what’s causing it to fail starting.
I let it sit at “server is starting” for 30 minutes and it eventually “started” and seems to be running fine now. I have no idea why. Now my database is a large database, was there some kind of conversion going on maybe with this Beta?
database changes with this release, so large db and/or slower cpus/disks will take longer to start (single threaded, # cores don’t matter, only single core cpu performance/disk speed matters)
should show activity in htop/task manager
What I found is it primarily seems to be if you have a large blobs DB, which seems to be large if you have intro scanning on. Per the logs, if I’m reading them correctly, Plex only uses 2 threads to update the blobs DB, and it can take quite a while.
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