Watching status not updating during Jellyfin library scans

General
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When starting playback the jellyfin dashboard shows which user/client is playing what and the progress… but after around 10-15min this activity stops. It seems infuse stops sending it’s playback progress updates for some reason.

Did a tiny bit of digging:

<ip> - - [24/Apr/2025:08:22:27 +0200] "POST /Sessions/Playing/Progress HTTP/2.0" 500 25 "-" "Infuse-Direct/8.1.6" 505 89

It seems after a while the call to the progress endpoint returns a 500 and infuse stops sending them, pausing and unpausing playback starts sending them again.

In the jellyfin logs I found

[ERR] Error processing request. URL "POST" "/Sessions/Playing/Progress".
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbUpdateException: An error occurred while saving the entity changes. See the inner exception for details.
 ---> Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException (0x80004005): SQLite Error 5: 'database is locked'.
   at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteDataRecord.Dispose()
   at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteDataReader.NextResult()
   at System.Data.Common.DbDataReader.NextResultAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update.AffectedCountModificationCommandBatch.ConsumeAsync(RelationalDataReader reader, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update.AffectedCountModificationCommandBatch.ConsumeAsync(RelationalDataReader reader, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update.ReaderModificationCommandBatch.ExecuteAsync(IRelationalConnection connection, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update.ReaderModificationCommandBatch.ExecuteAsync(IRelationalConnection connection, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update.Internal.BatchExecutor.ExecuteAsync(IEnumerable`1 commandBatches, IRelationalConnection connection, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update.Internal.BatchExecutor.ExecuteAsync(IEnumerable`1 commandBatches, IRelationalConnection connection, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Update.Internal.BatchExecutor.ExecuteAsync(IEnumerable`1 commandBatches, IRelationalConnection connection, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.ChangeTracking.Internal.StateManager.SaveChangesAsync(IList`1 entriesToSave, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.ChangeTracking.Internal.StateManager.SaveChangesAsync(StateManager stateManager, Boolean acceptAllChangesOnSuccess, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext.SaveChangesAsync(Boolean acceptAllChangesOnSuccess, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext.SaveChangesAsync(Boolean acceptAllChangesOnSuccess, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Devices.DeviceManager.UpdateDevice(Device device)
   at Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Devices.DeviceManager.UpdateDevice(Device device)
   at Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Security.AuthorizationContext.GetAuthorizationInfoFromDictionary(Dictionary`2 auth, IHeaderDictionary headers, IQueryCollection queryString)
   at Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Security.AuthorizationContext.GetAuthorizationInfoFromDictionary(Dictionary`2 auth, IHeaderDictionary headers, IQueryCollection queryString)
   at Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Security.AuthorizationContext.GetAuthorizationInfo(HttpRequest requestContext)
   at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.Security.AuthService.Authenticate(HttpRequest request)
   at Jellyfin.Api.Auth.CustomAuthenticationHandler.HandleAuthenticateAsync()
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationHandler`1.AuthenticateAsync()
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationService.AuthenticateAsync(HttpContext context, String scheme)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)
   at Jellyfin.Api.Middleware.RobotsRedirectionMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext httpContext)
   at Jellyfin.Api.Middleware.LegacyEmbyRouteRewriteMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext httpContext)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression.ResponseCompressionMiddleware.InvokeCore(HttpContext context)
   at Jellyfin.Api.Middleware.ResponseTimeMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context, IServerConfigurationManager serverConfigurationManager)
   at Jellyfin.Api.Middleware.ExceptionMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)
[INF] Playback stopped reported by app "Infuse-Direct" "8.1.5" playing "Harvest". Stopped at "1038453" ms

It seems to be triggered in this case by a media scan also being running at the same time, perhaps when encountering a 500 on the progess endpoint simply backing off for a few seconds and resuming after would be sufficient instead of just stopping all together?