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Hi everyone, I've had a problem with Sabnzbd on mac. It was always fine until one day it promoted the port Sabnzbd uses is being used by other app and asked me to change a port by entering a comand at terminal. I did but then Sabnzbd hangs everytime it starts now.There is a arrow on the top but move the mouse over it shows the rainbow.
I tried to start in terminal by enter "/Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/MacOS/SABnzbd -s 127.0.0.1:8080", i got the error message of "socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known".Tried to changed to different ports as well as tried different versions of sabnzbd, still no luck. I was wondering if anyone knows what the problem is?

Thanks in advance

Just downloaded xcode, Cheetah-2.0.1,yenc-0.3, tried to run from source then getting the exact same error

I'd say that there's something wrong with OSX network setup.
That 127.0.0.1 won't work is normally impossible.
Do you run some software firewall?

You could try -s :8080 instead. Does that fix anything?

Does "ping 127.0.0.1" work?

Hi Shypike,

Thanks for your help. I tried "-s :8080", same error message.
Tried to ping 127.0.0.1, no problem at all with following respond"
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.057 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.075 ms"

Also, I don't have any firewall software or antivirus software running

Do you know the IP address of your system (usually something like 192.168.1.3).
If so, try to start like with -s 192.168.1.3:8080
Do you see the down arrow menu appear in OSX's top menu bar?

Figured out the problem. Even forcing Sabnzbd to using 127.0.0.1 as server, it still tried to use localhost at some stage thus the problem. i modifed the hosts file and add localhost to point to 127.0.0.1, the problem went away

Do you have any idea what localhost was pointing to when it wasn't present in /etc/hosts?
Which SABnzbd version are you using?