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Must say this is an awesome program and many thanks.  I have only one slight annoyance though, every time it's done a unrar unpack it leaves a "unrar " process for every use so depending on how many files it's unpacked it'll leave that many.  I can't kill the processes, even with a -9 won't do it, only if i shutdown sabnzbd will it take them down with it, restarting sabnzbd won't kill though.  Any ideas what could be causing this?

Regards.

System details:

Version: 0.5.2
Python: v2.6
unrar: v3.91
OS: Gentoo kernel 2.6.30
Install type: Python source
Skin: Plush
Firewall software:  my own bash script
ipv4

Sounds very much like a problem in unrar itself.
Have you tried older versions?

shypike wrote: Sounds very much like a problem in unrar itself.
Have you tried older versions?

I've done a bit of testing and it's seems to be doing it everytime i start or restart sabnzbd.  For example i'll start sabnzbd and there'll be one unrar in the process list, then if i restart sabnzbd from within the web gui it'll put another unrar in, they're zombied processes and even a kill -9 won't rid them,  i need to shutdown and startup sabn again? very strange but the program is fine it's just annoying.  I also use nzbgetweb with unrar and it's fine so i'm not sure what's going on.

At startup we run unrar once to find out its version number.
I'll check whether this results in a orphaned process.

No problem on Ubuntu 9.10.
Maybe you could try an experiment.
Find module newsunpack.py.
At about line 114, you'll find: Change this to: Please report if this solves the problem.
It's not a proper solution yet, but it might narrow down the search.

I commented out the unrar check and it's fixed the problem   Also noticed that it'll will accept the rar command as well which maybe better as i may need to pack stuff up with rar sometimes.  sabnzbd is always running on my server 24/7 anyway, i restarted it yesterday and got the usual problem of unrar defunct and today i check my processes and the zombied unrar was gone, do zombie processes have a timeout on closing because i couldn't kill it myself?  But anyway your solution has done the trick, i may try uninstalling unrar and try with rar.

Cheers for a great program anyway it does just what i want for episode downloading and sorting.

Many thanks.
Ian.

I have no idea about the issue.
Could be a problem in the Python port.

You can have both unrar and rar installed.
The rar package comes with an unrar too.