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durian123
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Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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Hi everyone, I've had a problem with Sabnzbd on mac. It was always fine until one day it promoted the port Sabnzbd uses is being used by other app and asked me to change a port by entering a comand at terminal. I did but then Sabnzbd hangs everytime it starts now.There is a arrow on the top but move the mouse over it shows the rainbow.
I tried to start in terminal by enter "/Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/MacOS/SABnzbd -s 127.0.0.1:8080", i got the error message of "socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known".Tried to changed to different ports as well as tried different versions of sabnzbd, still no luck. I was wondering if anyone knows what the problem is?

Thanks in advance
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Re: Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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Just downloaded xcode, Cheetah-2.0.1,yenc-0.3, tried to run from source then getting the exact same error
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Re: Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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I'd say that there's something wrong with OSX network setup.
That 127.0.0.1 won't work is normally impossible.
Do you run some software firewall?

You could try -s :8080 instead. Does that fix anything?

Does "ping 127.0.0.1" work?
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Re: Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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Hi Shypike,

Thanks for your help. I tried "-s :8080", same error message.
Tried to ping 127.0.0.1, no problem at all with following respond"
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.057 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.075 ms"
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Re: Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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Also, I don't have any firewall software or antivirus software running
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Re: Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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Do you know the IP address of your system (usually something like 192.168.1.3).
If so, try to start like with -s 192.168.1.3:8080
Do you see the down arrow menu appear in OSX's top menu bar?
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Re: Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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Figured out the problem. Even forcing Sabnzbd to using 127.0.0.1 as server, it still tried to use localhost at some stage thus the problem. i modifed the hosts file and add localhost to point to 127.0.0.1, the problem went away
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Re: Sabnzbd hangs on startup (Mac OS)

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Do you have any idea what localhost was pointing to when it wasn't present in /etc/hosts?
Which SABnzbd version are you using?
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