SABnzbd Forums

Hi Guys. I'm having a lot of trouble getting Sabnzbd to run, or even get to the install wizard. I have a Mac Pro that I leave running at home, and frequently send NZB files to it from my phone to download while I'm away from the house. It is a MacPro1,1. It is running 10.7.5 and is ineligible to upgrade past that.

When I start the program, it starts briefly and then crashes, bringing me to a web page saying I need to change ports as its in use or unavailable.

Yes, I'm running the right version
Yes, I've reinstalled sabnzbd and confirmed that the configuration directory was deleted from application support.
Yes, I've tried older versions of the program.
Yes, I've tried many many different ports.
No, its not my routers firewall, other computers in the house run the app fine.
No, its not a firewall on my Mac, nor is it little snitch.

The error comes up before it ever reaches the wizard even. it used to work fine on the computer. something got screwed up.

I already tried repairing permissions. I copied the console log below.

The only thing that looked out of ordinary to me is ionice binary failed to load, and web interface failed to open. Is my system's copy of python corrupt?

thanks tremendously


2013-02-08 02:28:26,747::INFO::[SABnzbd:470] par2 binary... found (/Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/Resources/osx/par2/par2-sl)\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,747::INFO::[SABnzbd:478] unrar binary... found (/Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/Resources/osx/unrar/unrar)\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,748::INFO::[SABnzbd:483] unzip binary... found (/usr/bin/unzip)\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,748::INFO::[SABnzbd:489] nice binary... found (/usr/bin/nice)\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,748::INFO::[SABnzbd:495] ionice binary... NOT found!\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,748::INFO::[SABnzbd:498] pyOpenSSL... found (True)\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,798::INFO::[SABnzbd:1468] Starting web-interface on 127.0.0.1:9091\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,798::ERROR::[SABnzbd:1483] Failed to start web-interface: \
Traceback (most recent call last):\
File "/Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/Resources/SABnzbd.py", line 1474, in main\
File "cherrypy/process/servers.pyc", line 228, in check_port\
gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,799::ERROR::[SABnzbd:302] Failed to start web-interface : [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,800::INFO::[panic:247] Lauching browser with /var/folders/sk/8t2gxydj2bd3pml84zlm_t7h0000gn/T/tmp4VzGms.html\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,918::INFO::[__init__:359] SABnzbd shutting down...\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,918::INFO::[__init__:895] Saving data for bookmarks.sab in /Users/spresbrey/Library/Application Support/SABnzbd/admin/bookmarks.sab\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,921::INFO::[urlgrabber:72] URLGrabber shutting down\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,922::INFO::[__init__:895] Saving data for watched_data.sab in /Users/spresbrey/Library/Application Support/SABnzbd/admin/watched_data.sab\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,924::INFO::[dirscanner:256] Dirscanner shutting down\
2013-02-08 02:28:26,925::INFO::[notifier:87] Sending registration to localhost:23053\

It's your DNS.
Which host address did you use in Config->General?

thats the problem. I cannot even reach the wizard nor the main Sabnzbd web app. So I can't reach Config - > General. I can edit the ini file if necessary

Thanks bud. Changed the host in ini file to 127.0.0.1. Solved the problem. Cheers!!

It does mean that your system suddenly forgot what "localhost" means.

shypike wrote:It does mean that your system suddenly forgot what "localhost" means.

(I know handling localhost, 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0 is already a headache, so sorry if my question makes that headache worse)

Can SAB check if the system knows "localhost" and if not, change to "127.0.0.1", so that SAB can start?