I am using Plex Media Server Version 0.9.12.11.1406-8403350
With just the server running every night it fail at some point when not in use. I think Plex does some house keeping at night but not sure if this is relevant. Previous OS6 beta versions have been no problem. Looks like someone else on here has the same issue.
I think I started a new thread but will continue on this one as it is the exact same issue.
Running an RN312 here on ReadyNAS Beta 4.
LAN1 - 192.168.0.2
LAN2 - 192.168.1.2
Devices using Plex are connected through LAN1
It does seem as though Plex is being intermittently killed/terminated. This did not happen on 6.2.4 or 6.3.5 Versions.
The ReadyNAS in my environment is doing nothing more than providing storage for Documents, Downloads, Pictures and Movies etc and Plex is providing media to an Amazon Firestick.
I have PhPSysinfo and this does not get killed/terminated but the only difference is that Plex can be Toggled on/off and PhPSysinfo seems to run as a static process, therefore it cannot be toggled off.
There is unfortunately nothing in the logs either to indicate any potential 'crash' happening. It seems the NAS is killing/terminating the process in the correct manner that you would if you toggled the process ON/OFF.
Yes - this is the exact same issue Vincent that I have with my 516. I have tried several versions of Plex.
Clearly it is an issue.
I think the idea that the readynas is "killing" the plex app is likely wrong, and that Vincent is reading too much into the absence of info in the plex logs. It seems far more likely that the new kernel is destabilizing plex.
Netgear (and perhaps plex) need to look into it for sure.
It's worth mentioning that Plex was one of the apps that was shutting down on me when I first updated to the first 6.40 beta. Factory reset and reinstall of Plex fixed it for me. Could have been a completely different issue, of course, and I have no logs to verify either way.
Though, if the Kernel is destabilizing plex then the process is ending somehow and something is ending that process.
It is not uncommon for processes to prematurely terminate without a sniff of a core log or otherwise, so no reason that the ReadyNAS would be different. It does after all run Debian just like hundreds of other servers out there.
That being said, I did perform a factory reset and reinstalled Plex like another contributor and this seems to have resolved the issue...
I think the Thoery of destablibisation is correct in some way and why just a simple removal and install of Plex doesnt fix the issue, we will never know.
What has changed from 6.3.5 to 6.4.0 does seem to have caused the issue but I think to properly diagnose from an end user point of view would require vebose logging on the Plex side and possibly the OS Side.
Yes, that would be consistent with the issue that we found. You may have seen services such as SMB shutdown too. This is not a bug with Plex.
Try Beta 5 once that is released.
Good to know. I may have had SMB shut down on me at some time, did have to reboot the NAS once I remember. So what seems to be the issue, some "cleanup" task (shutting down services to conserve memory, maybe), gone rogue?
I haven't had any apps (Plex included) shut down on me since updating to Beta 5 myself. Beta 4, Deluge would occasionally shut down on me (decided to try it instead of Transmission recently), but that is no longer the case with Beta 5. Betting it was the same issue.
