Home page not working after update

[pentolino 1]

I recently updated my docker instance to emby 4.8.11 and something very weird happened; If I navigate through the home page, it sees the libraries, but they are all empty. 

If instead I go to favourites or search, I can find everything, my whole library, and refreshing metadata goes fine.

Is there a way to force a "rebuild" of the home page? It seems it got broken in the update. This happens both on firefox and on the Fire TV (Android version) and I already tried purging cache and all.

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, what version did you update from, do you know?

[pentolino 1]

It was from 4.5.4 if I recall correctly.

[pentolino 1]

it was 4.5.4.0 to be precise, I checked

[pentolino 1]

so what are my options? Is there a way I can recover a functional home page or should I consider a clean install?

[Neminem 1518]

Well since you jumped 4.6 - 4.7 and current is now 4.8.

And I suspect that 4.9 will drop in the near future  ( Luke's words ) 

I would start fresh.

 

[pentolino 1]

ok, I knew that updating something that worked was a bad idea... I will see if my motivation to stay with emby is stronger than starting over with something else...

[Luke 42077]

Apologies for the disruption, and thank you for staying with 4.5.4 for so long. 

The reality is that so many advancements have come since then that a fresh database will likely lead to better performance anyway, so hopefully you will take that into consideration.

[pentolino 1]

yeah you know, I'm an engineer, I live by the mantra "don't fix what ain't broken". If I decide to start over, I will probably never update it again in the future.

I stayed with 4.5 so long simply because I didn't use the server for a long time.

[Luke 42077]

Please let us know how things go. Thanks.

[pentolino 1]

it seems to work now; it took a while to reload all libraries, but let's see how it goes from now on

[Happy2Play 9780]

Not knowing how long you waited after your update I would suspect a complete rebuild was happening as there are a large number of changes that have happened since then per each major release.