Sabnzbd fails to manuall start and service

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Darkman1
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Sabnzbd fails to manuall start and service

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I recently upgraded to Sabnzbd v7.4.0 and now I cannot start Sabnazbd manually or as a service. I unistalled sabnzbd and when I attempt to reinstall I get the following error output:

tom@rat:~$ sudo apt-get install sabnzbdplus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
sabnzbdplus is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up sabnzbdplus (0.7.4-0ubuntu1~jcfp1~lucid) ...
* Starting SABnzbd+ binary newsgrabber [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript sabnzbdplus, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing sabnzbdplus (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sabnzbdplus-theme-classic:
sabnzbdplus-theme-classic depends on sabnzbdplus (= 0.7.4-0ubuntu1~jcfp1~lucid); however:
Package sabnzbdplus is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing sabnzbdplus-theme-classic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sabnzbdplus-theme-smpl:
sabnzbdplus-theme-smpl depends on sabnzbdplus (= 0.7.4-0ubuntu1~jcfp1~lucid); however:
Package sabnzbdplus is not configured yet.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: error processing sabnzbdplus-theme-smpl (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
sabnzbdplus
sabnzbdplus-theme-classic
sabnzbdplus-theme-smpl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and python 2.6.5. Apologies if there is a simple fix for this - never had an issue with this application before.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
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sander
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Re: Sabnzbd fails to manuall start and service

Post by sander »

What happens when you type "sabnzbdplus <ENTER>" ...
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jcfp
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Re: Sabnzbd fails to manuall start and service

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the error on install/upgrade can be circumvented by removing the username from /etc/default/sabnzbdplus. After that, start looking at the programs logs files or run from console for the underlying cause.
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Re: Sabnzbd fails to manuall start and service

Post by Darkman1 »

Thanks guys for the help. I basically completely removed my Sabnzbd app and also deleted my sabnzbd.ini file in my home directory. I then did a fresh install of sabnzbd. Everything works now - it appears something was going on with my .ini file. I am fully operational now.
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