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Not sure if this is the wrong section to post in but My SABNZB server running on windows 7 keeps crashing.

There doesnt appear to be anything in the logs, i'm looking in my user directory under local app data in the log file there and the last update was from the 26th but the server just crashed now (29th) after having added of load of nzbs to it this morning. Think it got about 40 gb through.

If i run it again it keeps downloading and usually crashes again.

Anyone got any advice on where to looks for better logs?

open CMD, then find and run sabnzbd-console.exe. post crash output here.

Thanks for the help, i thought it auto logged but its doesnt seem to save logs too well when its crashing. Looks like i actually got some crash info this time!

2013-05-07 10:38:11,355::INFO::[postproc:84] Saving postproc queue
2013-05-07 10:38:11,355::INFO::[__init__:904] Saving data for postproc1.sab in C
:\Users\jiff\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\postproc1.sab
2013-05-07 10:38:11,358::INFO::[downloader:246] Post-processing finished, resumi
ng download
2013-05-07 10:38:14,358::INFO::[nzbqueue:211] Saving queue
2013-05-07 10:38:14,358::INFO::[__init__:904] Saving data for queue9.sab in C:\U
sers\jiff\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\queue9.sab
2013-05-07 10:38:14,358::INFO::[__init__:904] Saving data for totals9.sab in C:\
Users\jiff\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\totals9.sab
2013-05-07 10:38:14,358::INFO::[__init__:904] Saving data for rss_data.sab in C:
\Users\jiff\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\rss_data.sab
2013-05-07 10:38:14,359::INFO::[__init__:904] Saving data for bookmarks.sab in C
:\Users\jiff\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\bookmarks.sab
2013-05-07 10:38:14,359::INFO::[__init__:904] Saving data for watched_data.sab i
n C:\Users\jiff\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\watched_data.sab
2013-05-07 10:38:14,361::INFO::[postproc:84] Saving postproc queue
2013-05-07 10:38:14,361::INFO::[__init__:904] Saving data for postproc1.sab in C
:\Users\jiff\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\postproc1.sab
2013-05-07 10:38:14,361::INFO::[postproc:649] Queue has finished, launching: Non
e (None)
Python WNDPROC handler failed
TypeError: restart() takes exactly 2 arguments (5 given)

If you Google
or
you'll see:

https://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11766
http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13871

Anything useful in those threads?

(I haven't got Windows, and the error message looks Windows-specific)

I think this is a deceptive error message.
I'm not sure how the issue in the other post was solved (the poster didn't say),
but the problem looks like a network name resolution problem (DNS).

Try starting SABnzbd once like this:
Press WindowsKey-R and type (including quotes):
"c:\program files\sabnzbd\sabnzbd-console.exe" -s 127.0.0.1:8080 -b1
Then press Enter.
If that fails to start, you probably have a 64bit OS and need to use this:
"c:\program files (x86)\sabnzbd\sabnzbd-console.exe" -s 127.0.0.1:8080 -b1

I will run with extedned commands and let you know if it crashes again

what do the extensions -s 127.0.0.1:8080 -b1 actually do?

-s 127.0.0.1:8080 resets the web host and port.
-b1 enables autostart of the browser.
You only need to do this once, as the change is recorded in the configuration file.