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SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: December 30th, 2013, 7:19 pm
by eriji
Rarlabs came out with a new version 5.01 in December 2013.

Now for some newer archives SABNZBD gives error: "Unusable rar file" and doesn't unpack.

Checksums verify and Winrar 5.01 will test archive successfully, and Winrar 5.01 can unrar successfully.

Not a big deal at the moment, but as people upgrade to 5.01 it will be a big deal.


as an aside:
Wish there was a "This job can be marked complete" option on the history line so I could note that that one was done (even though I had to unrar manually)

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: December 31st, 2013, 2:50 am
by sander
So ... is the problem in unrar (versus winrar), or in SAB?

Can you PM me a link to such a problematic .NZB? It's not rar-password protected, is it? Because that unrar5 problem will be solved in SAB 0.7.17.
I tried unrar 5.01 with SAB with a .NZB, and I had no problem.

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 24th, 2014, 11:46 am
by Se7en
I had the same problem with a release today. sabnzbd 0.7.17 wasn't able to unpack the release due to "Unusable rar file". I was however able to unpack it manually with WinRAR 5.01.



2014-03-24 13:22:16,075::INFO::[misc:792] Creating directories: /******/xxxxx.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE
2014-03-24 13:22:16,088::INFO::[postproc:346] Running unpack_magic on xxxx.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE
2014-03-24 13:22:16,093::INFO::[newsunpack:211] Unrar starting on /*****/downloads/incomplete/xxxxxx.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE
2014-03-24 13:22:16,096::INFO::[newsunpack:427] Extracting rarfile /****/downloads/incomplete/xxxxx.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE/BARC0DE1080pxxxx.part01.rar (belonging to BARC0DE1080pxxxx) to /**
2014-03-24 13:22:16,097::INFO::[newsunpack:537] Archive /*****/downloads/incomplete/xxxxx.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE/BARC0DE1080pxxxx.part01.rar probably has full encryption
2014-03-24 13:22:16,166::INFO::[downloader:667] Thread [email protected]:563: forcing disconnect
2014-03-24 13:22:16,175::INFO::[newsunpack:215] Unrar finished on /********/downloads/incomplete/xxxx.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE
2014-03-24 13:22:16,181::INFO::[postproc:348] unpack_magic finished on xxxx.2013.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE
Didn't know if I was allowed to post the release title but I can PM it if you'd like me to.

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 25th, 2014, 2:46 am
by shypike
Please send example NZB file to [email protected]
And include the URL of this message.

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 27th, 2014, 7:24 am
by Se7en
shypike wrote:Please send example NZB file to [email protected]
And include the URL of this message.
Hi, sorry for the delay. The file's from nzbs.org and they're not to keen on people sharing nzb-files. Would it be of any help if I e-mail the name of the release?

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 27th, 2014, 3:52 pm
by shypike
On which operating system are you using SABnzbd?
Please note that only the binary distributions for Windows and OSX contain unrar 5.01
For any other platform you'll need to install unrar 5.01 by yourself.
Source of packages: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 27th, 2014, 4:00 pm
by Se7en
shypike wrote:On which operating system are you using SABnzbd?
Please note that only the binary distributions for Windows and OSX contain unrar 5.01
For any other platform you'll need to install unrar 5.01 by yourself.
Source of packages: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
Oh :o Wasn't aware of that, I'm running sabnzbd on a Ubuntu server installation.

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 27th, 2014, 4:23 pm
by Se7en
Se7en wrote:
shypike wrote:On which operating system are you using SABnzbd?
Please note that only the binary distributions for Windows and OSX contain unrar 5.01
For any other platform you'll need to install unrar 5.01 by yourself.
Source of packages: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
Oh :o Wasn't aware of that, I'm running sabnzbd on a Ubuntu server installation.
My bad, it turned out that I was running unrar 4.00 on my server. I upgraded it manually and all seems ok now.

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 27th, 2014, 4:37 pm
by shypike
I thought so since I had no problems with your example.
Maybe SABnzbd should give a warning about the version of unrar.

Re: SABNZBD cant unrar 5.01 archives

Posted: March 27th, 2014, 5:18 pm
by Se7en
shypike wrote:I thought so since I had no problems with your example.
Maybe SABnzbd should give a warning about the version of unrar.
Probably, sounds like a good idea to avoid future threads about it ;)