Post Processing was aborted - Cannot create final folder

[timpj5]

Hey guys,

Version: 0.6.9
OS: Ubuntu 11.04
Install-type: linux repository
Skin: Plush
Firewall Software: None
Are you using IPV6? No
Is the issue reproducible? yes


New sabnzbd+ user... installed on Ubuntu 11.04. I've got sickbeard and couchpotato properly searching and sending nzbs to sabnzbd, sabnzbd is downloading and verifying, but failing on post processing with the following error:

PostProcessing was aborted (Cannot create final folder /mnt/fileshare1/Oh Nooos/I did not Read/the Forum Rules

I have a CIFS share \\freenas\fileshare1 on FreeNAS mounted to /mnt/fileshare1. Permissions seem to be fine as it creates the initial folder "V for Vendetta (2005)" but can't seem to create the final folder inside that... plus, I can browse to that location on the CIFS share and create a folder without a problem. This happens for every download...

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks

[rightbackin]

I have the exact same issue. CIFS share and post processing problems. I tried to add uid and gid parameters to the mount but it didn't help.

[shypike]

Are you able to create files manually on the CIFS share?
If not, then it's not a SABnzbd problem.

[rightbackin]

Thanks for the quick reply! Fortunately I think I was able to fix it.

In the "Categories" tab I had setup a tag for movies which had a relative folder path to my "completed folder" which is a CIFS share. When I tried to rewrite the relative path to the separate "movies" folder, it gave me an error stating that it could not create that folder (which already existed). By putting the full path I did not experience any post processing errors.

By the way, I was able to manually create files/folders on the CIFS share.

[shypike]

That's definitely odd.
What was your "complete" path and the relative path?

BTW: congratulations on getting CIFS to work from a Linux system.
I tried hard, but never got it working

[rightbackin]

The path was the one assigned to "completed downloads folder" in the Folders tab. In my case it was "/media/teeveau." I named my movies folder within that "Meauvees" so the complete path would be "/media/teeveau/Meauvees." Previously it was setup relative to the completed downloads and was "/Meauvees."

For my CIFS share (in Ubuntu 11.04), I mostly used this guide
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534

For the commands. I was recommended by a *nix server admin at my work to not play with the fstab as it could really mess things up if there was any typos. So instead I have a startup script to create a the CIFS mount that is generally

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sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1001,uid=1001,nounix,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

where the smbcredentials is a file hiding my username and password (also explained in the link). Also, uid and gid are set for the user I want ownership assigned for the share.

[jcfp]

Previously it was setup relative to the completed downloads and was "/Meauvees."

If the path starts with a "/" the program interpretes it as absolute, so this exact setting would have resulted in an attempt to create a directory in a location that isn't writable for normal users.

[rightbackin]

Oops that's right, good catch. It felt a little odd but I thought it worked before. I must have changed it by accident.

[kuja]

Is anyone still having this problem? seems like everyone fixed it but I am still having issues.. good news its likely user error any help guidelines/etc would be greatly appreciated ... running SABnzbd on Synology ...

[Rumik]

My SAB just started doing it last night. I haven't changed any configs and I can access the drive it's trying to write to. Very odd!

[avooda]

I've got a similar issue with xbmx eden 11, i've had sab working for the last two week or so, with very little problems,
over the past few days Ive had an issue where the download dir I use for sab will randomly change ownership to root.., which in turn seemed to hide the files within the folder.
the first couple of time i switched the ownership back to the same user sabnzb runs off and this sorted the issue, but now the files are still not listed, xbmc can still play the files, but browsing to them via CL shows no results, not even hidden results.

[shypike]

IIve had an issue where the download dir I use for sab will randomly change ownership to root.

If SABnzbd isn't running as root, there's no way it can change ownership of anything.
Besides, it never attempts to change ownership.
Sounds more like a problem of the OS itself.

[rallysquirrel]

I'm running the latest 0.7.6Beta1 on a newly installed ubuntu server 12.04 LTS. Just upgraded SAB from 0.7.5 since that wasn't working for me, but issue with Temporary Download Folder still remains. It's currently set to /media/NAS/temp (but that's the drive where i store my files and I don't want that drive to be contstantly writen to so).
I'd like to use a spare 80GB drive that's mounted to /media/down/. Samba share is /media/down/Downloads.

For some reason if I change my Temporary Download Folder to /media/down/Downloads/temp after saving and rebooting SAB, this field will revert back to /meida/NAS/temp. I can change the folder to /home/username/Download but i don't want that.

Here's the permissions on the media/down/Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Nov 11 21:08 complete
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Nov 11 23:14 temp
root@NAS:/media/down/Downloads#

Completed Download Folder on /media/down/Downloads/complete takes. What gives?
I've tried changing Temp Folder to /media/down/Downloads/complete, but that changes the path to /media/NAS/Downloads/complete after save.
I'm hoping this is the right clue to what's happening.
I've edited the .ini in the /home/username/ after stopping SAB service, but it keep reverting back no matter what.

I'm a newb at Linux but I'm learning. I came from Freenas with GUI.

[shypike]

A volume that holds the "temporary download folder" must be mounted before SABnzbd starts.

Access rights of a Samba drive mounted on a Linux are a nightmare, very hard to get right.
Personally, I had to undo an upgrade to my NetGear NAS to be able to be able to mount shares at all on my Ubuntu server.
You'd better ask the access question again in our Ubuntu section.

[eelnice]

run this command fixed my issue... sudo chown $USERNAME:$USERNAME /fileLocation