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Version: 0.6.4
OS: Ubuntu 10.4
Firewall: no
Is the issue reproducible: yes

So I first installed sabnzbd+ a few months ago and I had no problems at all, I followed the installation guide from ainer.org to the letter and it was just smooth sailing. But now that I set up a new server type of computer, I seem to be having a lot of problems with sabnzdb+. I followed that same guide again and it seemed to be going just fine but now that I download files, they all fail.

When I open the download report from the + button in the home page of sabnzdb it just says that the download failed. No explanation at all.
For example:
Completed at 19:08:40 on Monday 13 June 2011
Download:
Downloaded in 3 seconds at an average of 4.5 MB/s
Category:
tv
Path:
/home/myusername/Downloads/incomplete/filename

In some cases it says that the download size is les then 20MB and then in some cases it's like 50% of the file size and everything between that.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, please bear with me, I'm a newbie when it comes to Ubuntu even tho I have used it for a few months now.

Thanx in advance for some good tips I could try to solve this problem.

Which skin do you use?
Please show a screenshot.

My skin is smpl-black (I hope that is what you mean with skin). It seems I can't include a screenshot here, I just get the message that I need to contact the administrator and the file size might be too big even tho it's a really small picture.

Just send it by email to bugs at sabnzbd.org

Alrighty, screenshots sent!

Nothing conclusive.
Do you seen warnings about missing par2 or unrar at startup?
You'll have to take a look in the logging file on the Status page.

The warnings page itself doesn't have any warnings. Then the log file from the Status page... the log shows lines like
2011-06-12 19:43:03,801::INFO::[newsunpack:781] Par verify failed on /home/...
2011-06-12 19:43:03,802::INFO::[postproc:505] Par2 check finished on file

And it looks like pretty much everything I have tried to download has had the same two lines mentioned above. So it says that it has failed the par verify and then the par2 check finished.

Do you have anything in the box "Extra PAR2 Parameters" in Config->Switches?
Can you check from a shell window which par2 version you have?

In the Extra Par2 Parameters box I have t0. I'm not sure how can I check which par2 version I have from a shell window but the name of the download for Par 2 is par2cmdline-0.4-tbb-20090203-lin32. Does that help?

t0 is definitely wrong, because it should be -t0
Mind the minus sign.

Well, there we go! Right now I'm seeing very good things happening, like the words "verifying, starting repair, etc." and the best of all, Status: Completed. Thank you so very much man, you know your stuff!!!

SABnzbd tries to detect error messages coming back from par2.
However, as far as par2 is concerned "t0" is a file that it cannot find and cannot reconstruct...
Should you have entered something like -faster, SABnzbd would have warned you in the history details.

Alrighty, I will remember that. This have been really enlightening. Thanx again for your help.