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Posted: **September 18th, 2011, 5:25 pm**

Hi Everyone,

I've been running SABnzbd for 2 years now, and I'll be honest, I've only updated a couple of times in that time (If it ain't broke and all that). Anyway, a few days ago I decided to start using Sickbeard, and I had issues getting up and running with it, so I update SABnzbd to the latest version.

All was well in the world after this, and Sickbeard was up and running quite happily. And I thought "While I'm at it, I'll get rid of the "Your UNRAR version is not recommended, get it from http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm" message (how stupid was I?!).

So, I update to Unrar 4.0.1, and suddenly SABnzbd doesn't unrar anything. So I procede to try every RPM version of unrar I can get my hands on, and not one of them will work (from 3.71 to 4.0.7). I try the rarlab.com link, and that doesn't work at all no matter what I try.

Any ideas?

Here's some system info:

Centos 5.7 (latest update, done to try and fix the issues)
"UNRAR 4.00 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2011 Alexander Roshal" (4.0.7-1.el5.rf from rpm)
SABnzbd 0.6.9

Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
6gig RAM
Swap @ 4 Gig (I've heard about memory issues)

I'm seeing this error in debug logging:

"2011-09-18 23:22:00,474::INFO::[newsunpack:644] Skipping unrar file check due to unreliable file names or old unrar"

Seriously, any help would be greatly appreciated! Like maybe the best version of unrar to run?

Posted: **September 18th, 2011, 5:27 pm**

I forgot to mention a couple of things:

unrar can be called without issue from the command line, and it's definately in $PATH

Posted: **September 18th, 2011, 11:00 pm**

Hi,

Can you post the output of "unrar | head"

Here's mine (that is found OK by SAB):

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sander@R540:~$ unrar | head

UNRAR 4.00 beta 3 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2010 Alexander Roshal

Usage:     unrar <command> -<switch 1> -<switch N> <archive> <files...>
               <@listfiles...> <path_to_extract\>

<Commands>
  e             Extract files to current directory
  l[t,b]        List archive [technical, bare]
  p             Print file to stdout
sander@R540:~$

Reason: below is the check of SABnzbd on a correct unrar version: SAB wants to see "RAR", then a certain format, and then "Alexander Roshal". Maybe the output of your unrar looks a bit different.

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def unrar_check(rar):
    """ Return True if correct version of unrar is found """
    if rar:
        try:
            version = subprocess.Popen(rar, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True).stdout.read()
        except:
            return False
        m = re.search("RAR\s(\d+)\.(\d+)\s+.*Alexander Roshal", version)
        if m:
            return (int(m.group(1)), int(m.group(2))) >= (3, 80)
    return False

Posted: **September 19th, 2011, 1:12 am**

Hi there,

I posted the following in my original post:

"UNRAR 4.00 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2011 Alexander Roshal"

Do you need anything more?

Thanks :-)

Posted: **September 19th, 2011, 6:30 am**

All fixed....

It turned out I had /usr/local/bin/rar which it defaulted to rather than /usr/bin/unrar (strange when /local/ comes afterwards in $PATH. Removed it, and all good :-)

Posted: **September 19th, 2011, 10:35 am**

evilweasil wrote:All fixed....

It turned out I had /usr/local/bin/rar which it defaulted to rather than /usr/bin/unrar (strange when /local/ comes afterwards in $PATH. Removed it, and all good :-)

For the record: can you post the ' .../unrar | head ' of both unrar's here in this thread?

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