Why does Plex Media Server's PID keep increasing in "top"?

Question

I've searched first to no avail. When I type:

sudo service plexmediaserver start

and then:

top

I get:

PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
2908 plex      15  -5  149896  17964   9436 D   2.6  0.5   0:00.05 Plex Media+

Then if I run top again I get:

PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
2912 plex      15  -5  149896  17964   9436 D   2.6  0.5   0:00.05 Plex Media+

and so on. If I continue refreshing top the PID of Plexmediaserver keeps increasing. Plex is no longer accessible via a web browser or DLNA enabled device.

I have tried to remove and reinstall with

sudo apt-get remove plexmediaserver
sudo dpkg -i plex*.deb

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -Nick

Answer 1

Thanks, I looked at the error logs and found some reference to sqlite3, googled that, and found a solution over at the plex forums.

mv /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/* ./plexscrewedup
sudo service plexmediaserver stop
sudo service plexmediaserver start

Done! You have to re-add all of your libraries but at least the server is back up and running.