Automatically restart Plex service after crash

[zfrogz]

Once in a while Plex Media Server crashes and needs to be restarted (once every couple weeks). What is the easiest way to monitor the service and automatically restart it after a crash?

 

[m0nkey_]

Odd. My Plex instance will stay up months at a time. It rarely (read: never) crashes. Do you have any Plex plugins/channels enabled? If so, try disabling them for the time being.

 

[zfrogz]

It might be even less frequent than I stated but I have about 30 active users and try to keep it on the latest version which sometimes means putting up with a few bugs. I’m not running any plugins or channels. Even if it didn’t crash, I’m still interested in the best way to monitor and restart a crashed service running in a jail.

 

[m0nkey_]

In that case, you will want to install and configure sysutils/monitord in your jail.

 

[zfrogz]

In that case, you will want to install and configure sysutils/monitord in your jail.

Thanks. I'm a bit of a FreeBSD noob. I've installed monitord but can you provide instructions for having it monitor and restart the plexmediaserver_plexpass service?

 

[CraigD]

What are your system specs? My PLEX has also never crashed

I guess you could create a Cron job, however this not the way to deal with your problem

Have Fun

 

[m0nkey_]

Thanks. I'm a bit of a FreeBSD noob. I've installed monitord but can you provide instructions for having it monitor and restart the plexmediaserver_plexpass service?

You'll have to read the man page to find out how to configure it.

 

[zfrogz]

You'll have to read the man page to find out how to configure it.

Thanks. I've got it working now with monitord.

 

[zfrogz]

What are your system specs? My PLEX has also never crashed

System specs are:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v5 @ 3.40GHz
SUPERMICRO X11SSL-F
64gb ECC RAM
2x 32gb Mirrored USB flash drives for OS running FreeNAS-9.10.2-U6
12x 6TB drives (2x RAIDZ2 volumes)
Plex version in jail is 1.11.3.4803

Last crash happened yesterday.

FreeNAS console:

Code:

Mar  3 21:12:03 NAS kernel: pid 54749 (Plex Media Server), uid 972: exited on signal 11

Last Plex server log entries just before the crash:

Code:

Mar 03, 2018 21:11:21.922 [0x80dce1c00] ERROR - [Transcoder] [Parsed_inlineass_2 @ 0x8028901a0] fontselect: Using default font family: (Arial, 400, 0) -> /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver-plexpass/Resources/Fonts/DejaVuSans-Regular.ttf, 0, DejaVuSans[Parsed_inlineass_2 @ 0x8028901a0]
Mar 03, 2018 21:11:21.922 [0x811c70000] ERROR - [Transcoder] [Parsed_inlineass_2 @ 0x8028901a0] fontselect: Using default font family: (Arial, 400, 100) -> /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver-plexpass/Resources/Fonts/DejaVuSans-Regular.ttf, 0, DejaVuSans[Parsed_inlineass_2 @ 0x8028901a0]

 

[StarkJohan]

Thanks. I've got it working now with monitord.

Would you mind posting your plex line in monitord.conf? I' trying to get this to work but my config line is either not doing anything or trying to start the plex service every 10 seconds.