[SOLVED]Quick Start Wizard Stuck in Loop Missing Session key

[Crimjob]

Hi All,

Is there a way to manually disable the quick start wizard?

I seem to be caught in a loop, every time I go to <host>:8080/sabnzbd/, it just brings me back to the wizard.

[shypike]

The only reason it does that is because the sabnzbd.ini file cannot be saved.
Run "c:\program files\SABnzbd\SABnzbd-console.exe" from a command prompt and look for error messages.
(Assuming you use Windows).

[Crimjob]

The only reason it does that is because the sabnzbd.ini file cannot be saved.
Run "c:\program files\SABnzbd\SABnzbd-console.exe" from a command prompt and look for error messages.
(Assuming you use Windows).

Thanks for the super quick response shypike!

I am using Linux but your suggestion made me think I should triple check. I had double checked that the file was owned by sabnzbd user before, but I didn't double check the mode. Here I was thinking I did something horribly wrong, when I just changed the ownership the wrong way (using sabnzbd group instead of user) and failed to update the mode to reflect that. I sure feel slow

[Crimjob]

Hmm I feel worse now, as it didn't correct my issue.

I can see the ini is being written now and I confirmed the user can modify the file (it also updated it with my username, password, NZBMatrix API key, etc.), yet it still loops me back to the wizard

***EDIT***

Every time the wizard restarts sabnzbd and asks me to go to it, it throws this log line just before it loops me back to the wizard again.

I ran some searches but came up empty. I'm just trying to access the GUI, and I noticed most of the posts were related to API. I also cleared my cache as you suggested to another user in October, as well as tried a new browser, all to no avail.

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2011-11-13 08:02:56,112::WARNING::[interface:165] Missing Session key

[Crimjob]

And alas all resolved now.

After poking through the python scripts I found the following

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def check_session(kwargs):
    """ Check session key """
    key = kwargs.get('session')
    if not key:
        key = kwargs.get('apikey')
    msg = None
    if not key:
        logging.warning(Ta('Missing Session key'))
        msg = T('Error: Session Key Required')
    elif key != cfg.api_key():
        logging.warning(Ta('Error: Session Key Incorrect'))
        msg = T('Error: Session Key Incorrect')
    return msg

Which made me realize it was really looking for an API Key. After I checked my config before, it had saved my API Key for NZBMatrix, but the API Key for SABnzbd was blank. I believe there was definite confusion with SAB's "api_key = " and the one for NZBMatrix, "apikey = ".

I temporarily set my API key to 1 and ran the following

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http://Aurora.brokencouch:8080/api?mode=config&name=set_apikey&apikey=1

After which a new API Key was generated and the ini file updated automatically. After running the wizard one last time, I'm in SAB's GUI.

Thanks again for your quick response and assistance

P.S. don't take this as a bug or anything, I was using a home brewed ebuild for Gentoo on an experimental portage overlay which was likely the source of the issue. I will inform the author of the ebuild of this issue and don't believe it to be an issue with SABnzbd itself.