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Disk errors were the problem. I ran fsck from an Ubuntu Live CD against the HD and then enabled S.M.A.R.T. on the drive after rebooting from the HD.
Sab is running like a well oiled machine now.

Shypike, I submitted the bug report with the attached nzb but FYI, I have run disk checking programs against my HD and found read errors so this may be the problem for the failure to unpack. The bug would persist where checking the file(s) in memory would pass testing regardless of any subsequent di...

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Well, while the end result wasn't the mkv file that I wanted, I did get the familiar steps of "Repairing" and "Verifying" before marking the nzb as failed which is what I am used to seeing and is a much better indicator of a failed nzb than no front end errors and a bunch of corr...

I just pulled a small test nzb (250mb) after disabling the "quick check" and I ended up with no errors and a directory containing avi files vs rar files, ...yes! I am pulling the nzb that has been failing to unpack all day now for the real test. Should I also enable the "fail on CRC e...

I have the JCFP PPA enabled, should I ignore this and just pull Sab from the Ubuntu Main Repo? I'm on Ubuntu, and this is what I always do: 1) "sudo apt-get install sabnzbdplus" to get all dependencies (like yenc etc) in place. 2) Then download SABnzbd src from http://sourceforge.net/proj...

I have the JCFP PPA enabled, should I ignore this and just pull Sab from the Ubuntu Main Repo? The main repo is way behind and contains versions that we no longer support. I am back up on Ubuntu 10.0.4 with the PPA enabled and Sab installed so I am about to test your suggestions. BTW: did you check...

combspecialist wrote:I think the intial post needs a serious edit - we're not supposed to post details on what is being downloaded are we?

OP has been scrubbed of any download definitions.

I do appreciate the concise, informative answer. I am reinstalling Ubuntu now after a test run with Mint 11.
I will report the results of the suggested troubleshooting in a bit.

I have the JCFP PPA enabled, should I ignore this and just pull Sab from the Ubuntu Main Repo?

Thank you shypike.

I did transfer the files to os x to try to unrar there but os x doesnt use unrar so it was futile. I did download the same nzb via an older version of Sab on os x and it ran perfectly, unpacked, and resulted in an mkv file.

I have completely reinstalled Ubuntu 10.0.4 and Sab. I have downloaded several nzbs and they all download, "unpack", and result in directory full of sequentially numbered rar files. When I try to sudo e unrar-nonfree first-sequenced-rar-file.rar unrar gets through a few of the files and th...

Ubuntu 10.0.4 Sab Repo 0.6.6 Unrar (rarlab 4.0.1) I am going to skip all of the prefacing and get straight to the point. I have set the log level to the most verbose (2) and I have grep'd through a massive log file to get to the particular context which is the post processing of an nzb that I know u...

I was investigating the log file path issue along with a larger problem where NONE of my Sab downloads were unpacking successfully despite the fact that I was using the rarlab unrar. I tracked it down to a problem with the file system. Once I used the gparted utility from the Ubuntu Live CD to check...

Ubuntu 10.0.4
Sab Repo
Sab 0.6.6

Why is sab logging to when the config > folders setting points to ?