Sickbeard itself does not like an unclean shutdown or a loss of network activity. Either of these will cause it to have issues. This does not seem to be the case for SABnzbd or CouchPotato. So don't blame plugins in general, blame the app.

So that being said... I really don't relish the thought of reconfiguring again and again.

 

If there's nothing to be done regarding the cause, maybe we can minimize such a catastrophic effect. Is it possible to sync a backup copy of the config file / db etc periodically so that if it does fall over, it can be simply copied back into the appropriate directory in the case of failure? Or.. script it such that on start it is put back automatically?

 

I am out of my depth when it comes to coding... but it seems logical. If so - which files are key?

 

Edit: Now that I think about it - the both times I had to deal with the loss of config were due to having to hard boot the server - having lost control of the box due to Sickbeard crashing.  (the power outage was separate).

 

Are there known issues with it staying up for extended durations? I am only talking about 2 days. My box is a dual cpu dual core opteron with 16gig ram - not short of resources.

 

Mine has been up for about a month now (had taken it down to get a printer working) with SAB and SickBeard running the entire time.

You could write a hourly cron to backup your apps folder, so if it does happen again, you have a backup to restore to it.

 

The key files are config.ini, sickbeard.db, and sickbeard.db.v0 .

 

I've had to hard boot my server a couple of times and haven't had a problem with corruption. But each system is different.

I do appreciate all the feedback - thanks.  I went through reconfiguring (again) and had all working last night.  I did not yet get to copying the configs!!!! 

 

This morning I forced sickbeard to pull a few missing episodes which it did successfully, including successful post-processing as called from sabnzb. When I returned to my browser after about an hour and refreshed the sickbeard screen - I now get this:

 

500 Internal Server Error

 

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/sickbeard/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 660, in respond

    response.body = self.handler()

  File "/usr/local/sickbeard/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", line 193, in __call__

    self.body = self.oldhandler(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/usr/local/sickbeard/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 25, in __call__

    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

  File "/usr/local/sickbeard/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 1874, in index

    return _munge(t)

  File "/usr/local/sickbeard/sickbeard/webserve.py", line 100, in _munge

    return unicode(string).encode('utf-8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1010, in __unicode__

    return getattr(self, mainMethName)()

  File "_usr_local_sickbeard_data_interfaces_default_home_tmpl.py", line 107, in respond

  File "/usr/local/sickbeard/sickbeard/db.py", line 95, in select

    sqlResults = self.action(query, args).fetchall()

  File "/usr/local/sickbeard/sickbeard/db.py", line 71, in action

    sqlResult = self.connection.execute(query)

OperationalError: no such table: tv_episodes

 

 

-I cannot stop Sickbeard from the Unraid web interface, nor access the sickbeard interface. Unraid reports sickbeard is running.

 

 

root@Tower:~# ps aux | grep -i sick

root    30091  0.0  0.0  2448  584 pts/0    S+  10:21  0:00 grep -i sick

nobody  31728  2.2  0.2 171980 36392 ?        Sl  Mar01  14:56 python /usr/local/sickbeard/SickBeard.py -d -p 8081 --datadir /mnt/cache/apps/sickbeard --pidfile /var/run/sickbeard/sickbeard.pid > /dev/null 2>&1

 

I saw some reference to the 500 errors in several forums here but nothing jumped out at me as a solution unfortunately.

 

Any thoughts before I pull the plug?

 

Thanks

yeah, issue a "kill 31728" and then see about restarting sickbeard.

Ok - that did not work but kill -9 31728  killed the process. But webconfig still indicates sickbeard running, and will not stop it. I am able to stop plex, sab and ps3 media server however.

 

If I try to access the sickbeard interface I get a page not displayed (expected) rather than the 500 error previously.

 

Do I need to kill cherry.py... not sure on that piece but that was in the original error?

I've tried killing SB and associated processes, but never had any luck. When SB crashes and burns I usually have to restart the server.

looks like the whole server just fell over... 

web interface is still seeing the .pid file more than likely in /var/run even tho you killed the process - remove the .pid file as well and the GUI will see its not running anymore

 

Myk

 

Great script worked very well. I am only having one small problem. I cant seem to get Sabnzbd to find the scripts folder.

 

I created /mnt/cache/.sabnzbd/scripts and put the .py and .cfg files in there (all 4)

 

in sab under config>folders>scripts folder I put that location but when I go to the categories section and try to find the script it shows none.

 

Any tips to get this working?

 

Thanks

What are the permissions on those files? Are you sure you have the right path setup in SABnzbd?

Thanks Kricker, it ended up being the permissions. Once I changed them it showed.

I'm getting this error in sickbeard:

 

2012-03-11 11:42:24.084809 MAIN :: !!! Creating local cache dir failed, using system default

 

It cant seem to be able to create the cache directory under /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard  However, if I delete the log folder, it's able to re-create it.

Check the permissions of  the .custom and sickbeard directories, make sure the user is set as nobody:users, and make sure sickbeard is running as nobody(which it should by default)

Yeah it's all nobody/users.  It just weird that it's able to create /logs but not /cache.  There doesn't seem to be anything else related in the logs, but I can provide it if it would help.

anyone know howw to add branches with this install?

 

anyone know howw to add branches with this install?

Maybe just change the path in the .plg file to the branch you want to use.

I´m having some issues when I try to turn the unraid server off (ie to replace HDD). Is there a specific process to do so? Should I go into the settings menu and pot all the PLugins as Installed: no before I turn the server off and then dont start the unraid on bootup to be able to turn the plugins on?

I got to each apps web admin screen and tell each one to shutdown. When that is done I then shutdown the server.

I have had all 3 of the apps running nicely on my unRAID box for a good while now.

 

One thing I would like to do is have 2 installs of couchpotato running - one for kids movies and another for normal ones. This way when I add movies onto the "kids" install then it downloads and processes to a different user share.

 

Is it just a matter of making a copy and editing some lines of code in the couchpotato .plg file? or is more complicated.

 

Would there be any issues in trying to do this?

I am having a little issue that I have not been able to figure out or fix.  I am running 5beta13 with sab, sickbeard, and couch addons.  Everything has been running really well for months but in the last few weeks SAB has started to loose its connections after about a day.  Sickbeard keeps adding things to the queue but it wont download.  If I restart via the GUI nothing changes.  If I restart the whole server it works for about a day give or take but than stops again.  The only thing that I have found that fixes the problem is to restart the whole server.

 

I am a linux noob so be patient with me.  Thanks for any help.

I am having a little issue that I have not been able to figure out or fix.  I am running 5beta13 with sab, sickbeard, and couch addons.  Everything has been running really well for months but in the last few weeks SAB has started to loose its connections after about a day.  Sickbeard keeps adding things to the queue but it wont download.  If I restart via the GUI nothing changes.  If I restart the whole server it works for about a day give or take but than stops again.  The only thing that I have found that fixes the problem is to restart the whole server.

 

I am a linux noob so be patient with me.  Thanks for any help.

 

Something like this started happening to me a few days ago.  In this case things weren't even being found by CouchPotato, so I'm not sure they were even being sent to Sickbeard.  I tried to stop and start both processes but they wouldn't close cleanly.  Wonder if it's a python thing. But like you I haven't changed things in ages.

Im having an issue with the programs starting after a reboot.

Due to the plugins installing before the array is up I moved them out of the plugin folder to /boot/custom and have this in my go:

cd /boot/custom/ && find . -name '*.plg' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 /usr/local/sbin/installplg

the plugins seem to install correctly but I need to manually start all of the plugins even though the cfg files all say enable

any ideas?

Hi All,

 

Finally got my setup working quite well however I've tried to update some of the shows. I keep getting these errors

 

2012-04-01 21:37:31.845532 SEARCHQUEUE-RSS-SEARCH :: Error while searching NZBMatrix, skipping: NZBMatrix.com RSS 2.0 en NZBMatrix.com RSS Feed - Usenet http://nzbmatrix.com Copyright 2012 NZBMatrix Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:37:11 +0200

2012-04-01 21:37:31.851045 SEARCHQUEUE-RSS-SEARCH :: No NZB/Torrent providers found or enabled in the sickbeard config. Please check your settings.

 

Any ideas??