fork() failed

[jmaier]

Hi,

I was running sabnzbd version 0.4.5 for some weeks now on my QNAP. Everything was running smoothly, but last night sabnzbd stopped working.
I tried restarting the QNAP and even upgrading to 0.4.6 did not help. The process quits and the config-website is still not accessible.

The sabnzbd.error.log just contains a single line: "fork() failed"

It seems to work if I omitt the -d parameter, however does anyone have an idea to I can get rid of the "fork() failed" error.

[shypike]

Check the content of the INI file for odd statements.
(Although without -d it starts OK).

What has changed on your system? Any updates?
Any part of the harddisk full (like temp etc.) ?

[jmaier]

Hi,

The INI file seems OK to me. No wrong or odd statements.

I cannot recall of any system updates. I left my NAS with sabnzbd running for the night and when I checked the next morning it was no longer working.
Only after that I updated to version 0.4.6

My knowledge of Linux if very limited, but both the sabnzbd as well as the system tmp folder have hardly any data inside. The whole NAS has more than 2 TB free space left.

When I start with the -d parameter, the last lines in the sabnzbd.log are:

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sabnzbd.log
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2009-01-18 10:40:01,300::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for SABnzbd_nzo_IwZQuU from /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/cache/SABnzbd_nzo_IwZQuU
2009-01-18 10:40:01,356::INFO::[nzbqueue] Sorting by average date...
2009-01-18 10:40:01,377::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for watched_data.sab from /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/cache/watched_data.sab
2009-01-18 10:40:01,399::INFO::All processes started
2009-01-18 10:40:01,473::INFO::_yenc module... found!
2009-01-18 10:40:01,474::INFO::celementtree module... found!
2009-01-18 10:40:01,474::INFO::par2 binary... found (/usr/bin/par2)
2009-01-18 10:40:01,474::INFO::unrar binary... found (/usr/bin/unrar)
2009-01-18 10:40:01,475::INFO::unzip binary... found (/usr/bin/unzip)
2009-01-18 10:40:01,475::INFO::nice binary... NOT found!
2009-01-18 10:40:01,475::INFO::ionice binary... NOT found!
2009-01-18 10:40:01,476::INFO::pyOpenSSL... found (True)
2009-01-18 10:40:01,476::DEBUG::host -> 192.168.1.102
2009-01-18 10:40:01,486::DEBUG::port -> 8800
2009-01-18 10:40:01,487::DEBUG::log_dir: /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/logs
2009-01-18 10:40:01,487::INFO::Web dir is /usr/bin/interfaces/Default
2009-01-18 10:40:01,579::DEBUG::username -> admin
2009-01-18 10:40:01,579::DEBUG::password -> ******

No error messages here.

Without  -d parameter:

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sabnzbd.log
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2009-01-18 11:00:38,773::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for SABnzbd_nzo_IwZQuU from /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/cache/SABnzbd_nzo_IwZQuU
2009-01-18 11:00:38,795::INFO::[nzbqueue] Sorting by average date...
2009-01-18 11:00:38,803::INFO::[sabnzbd] Loading data for watched_data.sab from /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/cache/watched_data.sab
2009-01-18 11:00:38,813::INFO::All processes started
2009-01-18 11:00:38,815::INFO::_yenc module... found!
2009-01-18 11:00:38,815::INFO::celementtree module... found!
2009-01-18 11:00:38,816::INFO::par2 binary... found (/usr/bin/par2)
2009-01-18 11:00:38,816::INFO::unrar binary... found (/usr/bin/unrar)
2009-01-18 11:00:38,817::INFO::unzip binary... found (/usr/bin/unzip)
2009-01-18 11:00:38,818::INFO::nice binary... NOT found!
2009-01-18 11:00:38,818::INFO::ionice binary... NOT found!
2009-01-18 11:00:38,819::INFO::pyOpenSSL... found (True)
2009-01-18 11:00:38,820::DEBUG::host -> 192.168.1.102
2009-01-18 11:00:38,821::DEBUG::port -> 8800
2009-01-18 11:00:38,822::DEBUG::log_dir: /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/logs
2009-01-18 11:00:38,823::INFO::Web dir is /usr/bin/interfaces/Default
2009-01-18 11:00:38,824::DEBUG::username -> admin
2009-01-18 11:00:38,824::DEBUG::password -> ******
2009-01-18 11:00:38,871::INFO::Starting SABnzbd.py-0.4.6
2009-01-18 11:00:38,872::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting postprocessor
2009-01-18 11:00:38,873::INFO::[nzbqueue] Saving queue
2009-01-18 11:00:38,874::INFO::[sabnzbd] Saving data for SABnzbd_nzo_k876WX in /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/cache/SABnzbd_nzo_k876WX
2009-01-18 11:00:38,874::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting assembler
2009-01-18 11:00:38,875::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting downloader
2009-01-18 11:00:38,876::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting scheduler
2009-01-18 11:00:38,877::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting dirscanner
2009-01-18 11:00:38,878::INFO::[sabnzbd.misc] Dirscanner starting up
2009-01-18 11:00:38,879::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting msgidgrabber
2009-01-18 11:00:38,880::DEBUG::[newzbin] Popping msgid 4260442
2009-01-18 11:00:38,880::INFO::[newzbin] Fetching NZB for Newzbin report #4260442
2009-01-18 11:00:38,929::DEBUG::[sabnzbd] Starting urlgrabber
2009-01-18 11:00:38,930::INFO::[sabnzbd.misc] URLGrabber starting up
2009-01-18 11:00:38,965::INFO::Starting web-interface on 192.168.1.102:8800
2009-01-18 11:00:42,937::DEBUG::Checked for a new release, cur= 40699, latest= 40699 (on http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=207766&sel_platform=10624)
2009-01-18 11:00:43,029::INFO::[sabnzbd] Saving data for SABnzbd_nzo_M7KygS in /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/cache/SABnzbd_nzo_M7KygS
...

It is running fine, though the website is not really reachable: Waiting for 192.... It takes several minutes for the website to appear and to react to user input.

The line in question seems to be:

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2009-01-18 11:00:38,871::INFO::Starting SABnzbd.py-0.4.6

[shypike]

Remove the complete cache folder. Maybe there's a subtle corruption.
Other than that I don't have an idea what could be the problem in SABnzbd itself.
Assuming that the source code hasn't changed.