No matter what port I try SABDNZB won't start

[TakeshiKovacs]

Hi,

I am running Win 7 64-bit and Google Chrome. Version 0.7.19. No matter what port I try, when I open SABD I get the following web page open up:

SABnzbd.exe 0.7.19

SABnzbd needs a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
Port 8088 on localhost was tried , but it is not available.
Some other software uses the port or SABnzbd is already running.

Please restart SABnzbd with a different port number.

Press Startkey+R and type the line (example):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\SABnzbd\SABnzbd.exe" --server localhost:8089

If you get this error message again, please try a different number.

Program did not start!

I checked the sabdnzb.exe.log but it's not very helpful. It's not timestamped and it doesn't seem to change. It seems to be erroring out on some Python scripts but I can't even find those scripts on my computer.

Python WNDPROC handler failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sabnzbd\utils\systrayiconthread.pyo", line 236, in command
File "sabnzbd\utils\systrayiconthread.pyo", line 243, in execute_menu_option
File "sabnzbd\sabtray.pyo", line 104, in browse
File "sabnzbd\panic.pyo", line 239, in launch_a_browser
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable

I saw a very old thread related to this error but it didn't help me fix the problem. I have tried changing ports (8080, 8081, 8082, all the way up to 8088.) I have used netstat to verify that the ports in question are not in use.

Everything had been working like a dream for a long time but I hosed it all up when I tried to change my newsgroup server name in Config. It got hosed pretty bad so I had to uninstall/reinstall. I got it working for a bit but after a reboot I am back to square one. Would really appreciate some help.

Tak

[shypike]

Did you reboot the system?
Do you have some security suite (specifically a software firewall) that
you recently installed or updated?
Did your internal IP address change?

[TakeshiKovacs]

Hi Shypike,

Thanks for getting back to me. The answers to your question are:

Yes
No
No

Tak

[shypike]

Can you replace"localhost" with 127.0.0.1 ?
So:

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Press Startkey+R and type the line (example):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\SABnzbd\SABnzbd.exe" --server 127.0.0.1:8080

[TakeshiKovacs]

That's it! You are a genius! THANKS SO MUCH!

[shypike]

It does mean that something isn't quite right with your system.
Possibly localhost resolves to an incorrect address.
Can you open a command prompt and type:
ping localhost

[TakeshiKovacs]

You're right. It's IP6. When I ping loclahost, I get a reply from ::1.

[shypike]

OK, that's an IPv6 address.
Newer operating systems tend to give priority to IPv6 over IPv4.
"Localhost" is ambiguous, because it resolves to both 127.0.0.1 and ::1
Which one SABnzbd picks, depends on the order in which the OS gives it.

So back to your system. ::1 should be a usable address for SABnzbd.
For some reason (unknown to me) the OS doesn't properly support it.

No big deal as long as you keep using 127.0.0.1

[TakeshiKovacs]

Hi Shypike,

Yeah, man, I'm cool as long as SABD is working again.

Thanks again for the assist. Gosh, so simple and I didn't think of it.