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I've been running SAB on the Model B Pi for about a year and it's been absolutely flawless, however, I had a crash last week, which never happens, and again last night. The Pi won't now reboot using the "SAB Card", however, the PI works fine with my "XBMC Card". I'm guessing I've...

Ok, I increased the vmin setting from 8192 to 16384 and added smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N in /boot/cmdline.txt

I think it worked, maybe to early to tell just yet, but I managed a couple of large downloads (3GB & 10GB) and the Pi was still responsive in the morning.

I'm not sure what kind of crash unfortunately, I run SAB on a schedule from midnight until 08:00. When I attempt to view the queue in the morning, I can't access SAB remotely (via http), or the Pi direct via VNC, SSH or keyboard. The solution appears to be switch it off and on :( I'm running Debian ...

Any tips on stabilising SAB on the Pi? I have successfully downloaded a 123MB file and a 2GB file, however anything larger seems to crash the Pi.

Ok ok, no more questions for you Sander!

I'd like to thank you once again for your help, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me getting SAB working.

So, for future reference (in case I mess up this install!) should the code read as follows? echo "deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/wheezy main contrib non-free rpi" sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get build-dep unrar-nonfree sudo apt-get so...

And it's working! Once again Sander, your help has been invaluable. But why did it not work at the beginning? There seemed to be a problem with this line of code: echo "deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.lis...

sudo dpkg -i unrar_4.1.4-1_armhf.deb

Very quick this time, no errors again. Restarting the Pi now.

sudo apt-get source -b unrar-nonfree

Took ages, loads of lines this time, no errors though.

sudo apt-get build-dep unrar-nonfree

Again, seemed to work fine, loads of lines, no errors.

sudo apt-get update

Seemed to work fine, loads of lines, no errors.

Ok, my sources.list now reads like this:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi

I copied that exactly as it appeared!

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get update
deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
pi@raspberrypi ~ $

We have an error!

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get update
E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.