Emby suddenly stopped working.

[Neminem 1564]

1 minute ago, js28194 said:

Back on page 2, OP did state he/she/it went into windows firewall and uncheck some things so thats another vector to consider.

That should not influence localhost, I think.

[js28194 41]

3 minutes ago, Neminem said:

That should not influence localhost, I think.

True, but who knows what he/she/it did as following simple instructions has been... well, you all are reading the thread so you know.

[Neminem 1564]

@js28194that's true.

But what op does not know today, op might know tomorrow

So there is still hope.

Likely no, but hope...

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I followed everyone steps. You all asked and I have provided as much information as possible. 

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[Apotropaic 44]

Jason/Zenith

Right, so your machine IP is 192.168.68.54.

1. Open up a browser on your server machine and navigate to http://192168.68.54:8096

2. Try and do that from another machine, could be your phone/tablet browser if you have a device on the same network.

3. Open up a command prompt (Start menu - type  Command, select the Command Prompt entry that comes up. Next enter the command netstat -a

4. Show us the screenshot of the first few entries. They will be in order and we need to look for the :8096 & :8920 entries. If they are not there then the server is not running.

 

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[Lessaj 473]

Provide this log.

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embyserver.txt

[Lessaj 473]

You didn't delete the plugin.

Quote

2026-03-05 14:07:58.742 Info App: Loading ACdb, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from C:\Users\jason\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\plugins\ACdb.dll

.....

2026-03-05 14:07:59.373 Error ACdb.tv: ReloadOptions resulted in null options for ACdb.tv
2026-03-05 14:07:59.374 Warn ACdb.tv: No handlers registered for event 'Progress'
2026-03-05 14:07:59.374 Warn ACdb.tv: No handlers registered for event 'Progress'
2026-03-05 14:07:59.374 Warn ACdb.tv: No handlers registered for event 'Progress'

 

[Luke 42122]

Your can just delete all DLL files from C:\Users\jason\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\plugins

[Apotropaic 44]

Also your server is not running, you will need to find the emby server executable and run it. Either go to your start menu and search for emby and select it (make sure it’s the emby server and not the emby window client app if you have it installed).

Alternatively you’ll need to use windows explorer to find your install path and double click on it there.

You’ll know it’s launched as you’ll see the emby icon in your task icon area and if you run the netstat command again. If it isn’t launching then that’s what we’ll need investigate next.

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Okay. All dll files deleted.