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Hi guys,

Mayby somehere can help me. Im using sabnzbd for almost a year now. Its a wonderfull program. I decided to install ubuntu (version 7) and install sabnzbd on it. It has worked 2 times but since yesterday every download keeps hanging on extracting.

I have installed unrar and I can unrar rar files by hand so that works fine.

Can someone help me pls?

Oke I found this: When I stared my machine my bootscript activated sanbzd
When I downloaded something it kept hanging on extracting...

When  I kill the sanbzd process and start it again the extracting works.. the whole program works great.. so there is a problem to start sabnzbd @ boot mayby because unrar isnt loaded yet?

How can I set my bootscript to load after all the other loading is done?

Which unrar version do you have installed? Try a newer/older version. It seems on some peoples computers it hangs when first using unrar to list the contents of the rar set. On one occassion it was a permissions error, your logs may hold a clue.

Try killing the "unrar" process when it is stuck and see if the files then get extracted. Then email us your zipped log file(s) to bugs at sabnzbd.org and we will take a further look.

I fixt the problem by doing this:

I removed my bootscript which was located in the folder /etc/init.d and was responsable for starting sabnzbd
After that I created a crontab job to start sabnbzd and now it works great, no problems anymore.

Do you still want my log files?

No it's ok but thanks for posting your solution I'm sure it will be helpful to others.

np and thnx for taking time to look @ my problem (Btw its really a great program!)

blackhawkdesign wrote: I fixt the problem by doing this:

I removed my bootscript which was located in the folder /etc/init.d and was responsable for starting sabnzbd
After that I created a crontab job to start sabnbzd and now it works great, no problems anymore.

Do you still want my log files?

Hello blackhawkdesign, i suffer the same problem: Can you tell me what you mean by ¨After that I created a crontab job to start sabnbzd¨ i would like to try it as well.

Thnx in front,

André

André, there is a quick guide here http://sartorius.wordpress.com/2006/08/ ... in-ubuntu/ for setting up a cron job. And some further info here for cron syntax https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto

I seem to remember trying somthing similar when i had ubuntu installed, i think the underlying problem is that the bootscript and cron run with different security credentials.

shoo wrote: André, there is a quick guide here http://sartorius.wordpress.com/2006/08/ ... in-ubuntu/ for setting up a cron job. And some further info here for cron syntax https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto

I seem to remember trying somthing similar when i had ubuntu installed, i think the underlying problem is that the bootscript and cron run with different security credentials.

Oke thnx for the reply i will study the guide and try to get it fixed.