A Reboot (Windows 11) = No Emby Start Up (Figured It Out)

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Title Sums it up.  Had a power failure (system is on a UPS) so shut the system down normally.  Reboot and emby would not auto start or manually start.  With my over the top autonomous repair and restart system it failed as well.  Was very disappointed.  Started digging into the failure and realized what was going on...

Emby Log;

2026-09-10 09:45:46.602 Info Main: Application path: C:\Users\***********\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll
2026-09-10 09:45:46.645 Info NetworkManager: Adding event handler for NetworkChange.NetworkAddressChanged
2026-09-10 09:45:46.650 Info NetworkManager: Adding event handler for NetworkChange.NetworkAvailabilityChanged
2026-09-10 09:45:46.860 Info Main: Shutdown complete
2026-09-10 09:45:46.860 Info LogManager: Disposing Logger

After checking the integrity of activitylog / authentication / library / users databases, .old with currents.  ID exit codes / PIDS...  

Windows 11 turned ON "Smart App Control" at some point last night...  The reboot blocked Emby from starting. 

"Code Integrity Determined That A Process...  (in this case i believe) SimpleInjector.dll did not meet the enterprise signing level requirements."

I TURNED THAT "SMART" App Control OFF IMMEDIATELY! 

Emby (and my Autonomous watcher) are all happy again!

This may be old news, but i searched before posting this!

 

[Luke 43062]

HI, thanks for following up.

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This unexpected error was actually a good thing for me...  I am now working on another fail safe for my autonomous repair system.  

Just wanted to make folks aware of a possible issue.

Thanks for getting back Luke!