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I have been monitoring post processing errors since i introduced one within my own script.

All of a sudden, SAB is 'seizing' up while processing the following command

/usr/bin/unrar vb -v

If I kill that process, it continues on OK, but it reports

[RAR-INFO] => At least one file failed to be unpacked, skipping

I have tried unrar 3.5.1 and the repository version 3.7.1

Anyone else having issues with decompression?

Yep,

I'm experiencing the same problems. The python unrar process is going to sleep en never ends. When I kill this process, unrar starts again but reports that At least one file failed to be unpacked, skipping. All already downloaded nzb will fails unrarring.

After a clean start, for a short periode unrarring goes fine.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with sabnzb 0.3.4 and unrar 3.71

Has anyone a solution for this?

My download work-horse runs Ubuntu Server 8.04, with:

UNRAR 3.71 beta 1 freeware

straight from the apt-get repository.

No problems here.

OK, this issue just won't go away

I woke this morning to find about 15 projects 'Loaded' and had to kill the unrar -vb process each time for the projects to complete.

If I comment out the -vb component of the extraction process in newsunpacker.py, will I cause any other issues?


FYI my server is an Ubuntu 8.04 64bit - Xeon 3040 CPU, 1.5GB RAM, 750 GB HDD (that's handling the incoming files and extraction - post processing tosses completed files to a raid storage array)

"vb" is required, because SABnzbd analyzes the output from unrar
so that it knows which rar-files have actually been used and therefore can be removed.

Looks like there's something wrong with the unrar on your system.
Have you tried to extract the RAR files from the command line with the same parameters?

I don't know if 64-bit Xeon is a problem for unrar.

Are you using the FOSS unrar?
Could you try this one http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrar-linux-x64.gz ?

If I manually run the same command that it stalls on, it completes OK.

I have put in the version you have suggested and will monitor once next project completes

OK, I have put in the version as linked - 3.30 b4 Freeware

The unrar function doesnt even progress within post processing now.
This error comes up almost instantly

I can manually run the two commands, a vb -v and an x and they complete ok.

Still no success with the extraction.

I have removed every other sign of unrar and rar from my binaries folders and put 3.51 free back.

Well, that seemed to fix it, maybe it was finding a dumb version of rar or unrar somewhere.

Now the only thing on my box is unrar 3.51, and things have returned to normal.

At least for now

The link I send you is 3.30 b4 Freeware ? Oh dear.
I could not test, since I have no 64-bit Linux box.

I use "UNRAR 3.71 beta 1 freeware" on my 32-bit Ubuntu box (from apt-get).
Is that not available for you or does it not work?

Yes, 3.71 is available, but 3.51 is working, so for now, im not gonna mess with it any further.