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Hello all!

Since a few days and rather out of the blue, my sabnzbd refuses to start. I have already reinstalled it using the windows installer, as well as tried using the archive version. I'm on windows vista. The app generates an error in the logfile on start-up. I was hoping someone recognizes what is missing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SABnzbd.py", line 828, in
  File "SABnzbd.py", line 423, in main
  File "platform.pyo", line 1198, in platform
  File "platform.pyo", line 967, in uname
  File "platform.pyo", line 401, in _syscmd_ver
  File "platform.pyo", line 356, in popen
pywintypes.error: (2, 'CreateProcess', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')

Thanks in advance

Have you done any dramatic changes to your system recently such as driver updates, windows updates, "tweaks", deleting windows files?

Unfortunately that is python failing to load a standard module, and not anything specific to SABnzbd so I do not know what would cause that.

Thanks for the reply switch.

As far as I know nothing dramatic has changed in the past weeks. To be honest I was in freaking Africa, a few thousand miles from my computer. Right before I was busy updating some stuff for my webserver, but I'm pretty sure those changes did not dig deep into windows. I must confess that I haven't a clue how to purposely mess up the python modules, other than deleting specific files or destroying configs. Anyways, thanks for the help. Perhaps I can somehow repair windows and if not, there's always reinstalling.

Cheers