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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

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?

Hi Shypike,

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

Yes
No
No

Tak

Can you replace"localhost" with 127.0.0.1 ?
So:

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

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

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

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

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.