SAB won't auto start up on boot!

[silentwol]

I'm running sabnzbd on ubuntu. Here's what I've done:

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1. sudo aptitude install sabnzbdplus
2. configured /etc/default/sabnzbdplus
3. sudo /etc/init.d/sabnzbdplus sucessfully starts sab

However, on reboot, sab doesn't start up!

I run the following:

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$ sudo update-rc.d sabnzbdplus defaults
 System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/sabnzbdplus already exist.

Any idea why this isn't working?

Thanks!

[silentwol]

Just looked in some log files (sorry, should have done this first!):

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Exception in thread HTTPServer Thread-10:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 484, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/sabnzbdplus/cherrypy/process/servers.py", line 75, in _start_http_thread
    self.httpserver.start()
  File "/usr/share/sabnzbdplus/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 1629, in start
    raise socket.error, msg
error: [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address

I'm trying to bind to 192.168.1.100 (a static address assigned by DHCP).  This is a wireless connection, which takes a few seconds after boot to connect.  This seems to be the problem.

I'm considering just adding a sleep command to the init script... any better solutions?

[shypike]

Yes, you need to wait for an IP address to be assigned before starting SABnzbd.

[silentwol]

Adding a 'sleep 60' in the init script fixed it... maybe this could be handled more elegantly in sab? E.g. retry a few times (with suitable pause lengths) before giving up? There must be other people facing similar problems!

[shypike]

We get few complaints.
We will get new ones: "why does it take a full minute before I get feedback that my IP is wrong?"

[silentwol]

We get few complaints.
We will get new ones: "why does it take a full minute before I get feedback that my IP is wrong?"

How about, pseudo code:

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for(retry_count = 0; retry_count < 10; retry_count++)
{
    if(try_to_bind())
    {
        bound = true;
        break;
    }

    error_log "failed to bind, try retry_count"
    sleep 5
}

if(bound)
   everything good!

[shypike]

It will still take a long time before any feedback can be given.