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SABnzbd+ SickBeard CouchPotato Plugin/Installer for v5b11+

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change the install dire to a disk in your array also.

 

If you need to edit some files then you will have to probably use mcedit from the command line to do it.  The "problem:" you are running into is the reason I install everything to a disk with my unMenu packages.

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change the install dire to a disk in your array also.

 

If you need to edit some files then you will have to probably use mcedit from the command line to do it.  The "problem:" you are running into is the reason I install everything to a disk with my unMenu packages.

 

I don't even know what the data/install directories are for. There's nothing being stored in either of them.

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd/unraid

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard/unraid

 

I've done this which is allowing sickbeard to run, but sabnzbd won't start and reverts to default when I set it to enabled. I'm about to give up.. everything here seems to assume that you understand everything. It really shouldn't be this hard to get 3rd party programs to work on unRAID. I still have a 24/7 seedbox computer on because I can't get torrents to work with unraid. I have tried hundreds of times over the years to get crap like this to work and it never does. I'm beyond fustrated.

 

 

change the install dire to a disk in your array also.

 

If you need to edit some files then you will have to probably use mcedit from the command line to do it.  The "problem:" you are running into is the reason I install everything to a disk with my unMenu packages.

 

I don't even know what the data/install directories are for. There's nothing being stored in either of them.

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd/unraid

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard/unraid

 

I've done this which is allowing sickbeard to run, but sabnzbd won't start and reverts to default when I set it to enabled. I'm about to give up.. everything here seems to assume that you understand everything. It really shouldn't be this hard to get 3rd party programs to work on unRAID. I still have a 24/7 seedbox computer on because I can't get torrents to work with unraid. I have tried hundreds of times over the years to get crap like this to work and it never does. I'm beyond fustrated.

 

 

Check out my unMenu packages for SAB, SickBeard, CouchPotato and Transmission.

I don't even know what the data/install directories are for. There's nothing being stored in either of them.

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd/unraid

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard/unraid

 

I've done this which is allowing sickbeard to run, but sabnzbd won't start and reverts to default when I set it to enabled. I'm about to give up.. everything here seems to assume that you understand everything. It really shouldn't be this hard to get 3rd party programs to work on unRAID. I still have a 24/7 seedbox computer on because I can't get torrents to work with unraid. I have tried hundreds of times over the years to get crap like this to work and it never does. I'm beyond fustrated.

 

Ok, take a deep breath.

 

The install directory is where the program files are installed and stored during bootup. Just leave this as "/usr/local/sabnzbd".

 

The data directory is where the configuration files and working data are stored. "/mnt/usenet/sabnzbd/unraid" is an invalid path. I'm guessing you are trying to use "/mnt/user/usenet/sabnzbd/". Local paths are different than what you see over the network.

 

I would specify a specific disk, like "/mnt/disk#/sabnzbd" or "/mnt/cache/.sabnzbd" if you have a cache drive. Don't forget the period if you use the cache drive. This tells the mover script not to move the directory off the cache drive.

 

In the future, you can type "mc" at the command prompt to open Midnight Commander. This will give you a semi-graphical user interface to navigate your directory structure and make everything easier to visualize.

I don't even know what the data/install directories are for. There's nothing being stored in either of them.

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sabnzbd/unraid

 

install dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard

data dir: /mnt/usenet/sickbeard/unraid

 

I've done this which is allowing sickbeard to run, but sabnzbd won't start and reverts to default when I set it to enabled. I'm about to give up.. everything here seems to assume that you understand everything. It really shouldn't be this hard to get 3rd party programs to work on unRAID. I still have a 24/7 seedbox computer on because I can't get torrents to work with unraid. I have tried hundreds of times over the years to get crap like this to work and it never does. I'm beyond fustrated.

 

Ok, take a deep breath.

 

The install directory is where the program files are installed and stored during bootup. Just leave this as "/usr/local/sabnzbd".

 

The data directory is where the configuration files and working data are stored. "/mnt/usenet/sabnzbd/unraid" is an invalid path. I'm guessing you are trying to use "/mnt/user/usenet/sabnzbd/". Local paths are different than what you see over the network.

 

I would specify a specific disk, like "/mnt/disk#/sabnzbd" or "/mnt/cache/.sabnzbd" if you have a cache drive. Don't forget the period if you use the cache drive. This tells the mover script not to move the directory off the cache drive.

 

In the future, you can type "mc" at the command prompt to open Midnight Commander. This will give you a semi-graphical user interface to navigate your directory structure and make everything easier to visualize.

 

Ugh, that was my problem I knew it was something stupid...

 

Thanks.

Glad I could help.

Glad I could help.

 

Now i'm having an issue with the array not starting because of SickBeard hanging after reboot. Seems like it's a widespread issue based on the forums, only solution i've found was to put them on the cache drive.

 

Any other solution? Or do I need to buy a cache drive?

Any other solution? Or do I need to buy a cache drive?

Use my unMenu packages

Glad I could help.

 

Now i'm having an issue with the array not starting because of SickBeard hanging after reboot. Seems like it's a widespread issue based on the forums, only solution i've found was to put them on the cache drive.

 

Any other solution? Or do I need to buy a cache drive?

 

I've always used a cache drive, so I never ran into this problem. If you have the space, a cache drive is nice. Or you could mount a drive outside the array, using SNAP.

 

If you'd rather not, prostuff's addons are great too. I used them for awhile with no issues and only switched when I upgraded to 5.0b. The plugins seem to be the way of the future.

Hello All.  I'm using v5b12 of Unraid.  What's the correct way of rebooting Unraid with all these plugins running?  Do I have to shut them down 1 by 1 before I use Unmenu's scripted shutdown?  The reason I want to do this is I find my couchpotato's kinepolis rss only working whenever there's a reboot.  It's the only time that it will add movies based on rss of kinepolis.  I try to restart CP via the provided restart, but can't get it back up and running.  Only thing to get it back up and running is to reboot Unraid.  To be able to do this, I have to shutdown both Sabnzbd and Sickbeard.  All from the plugin provided by Benni-chan here.  You can imagine it's quite a hassle to shutdown all services, and reboot unmenu.  What are you guys doing?  Do you also experience the same issue of Kinepolis rss not running?

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Hello All.  I'm using v5b12 of Unraid.  What's the correct way of rebooting Unraid with all these plugins running?  Do I have to shut them down 1 by 1 before I use Unmenu's scripted shutdown?  The reason I want to do this is I find my couchpotato's kinepolis rss only working whenever there's a reboot.  It's the only time that it will add movies based on rss of kinepolis.  I try to restart CP via the provided restart, but can't get it back up and running.  Only thing to get it back up and running is to reboot Unraid.  To be able to do this, I have to shutdown both Sabnzbd and Sickbeard.  All from the plugin provided by Benni-chan here.  You can imagine it's quite a hassle to shutdown all services, and reboot unmenu.  What are you guys doing?  Do you also experience the same issue of Kinepolis rss not running?

 

since I don't use unmenu, I can't say what it does on it's restart command. when i want to restart my server, I stop the array and restart the server from the normal unraid gui. (my plugins stop all the apps in this case.)

 

i find it strange, that your kinepolis rss works only after a server restart. but i would believe this to be a bug inside of couchpotato, not the plugin. but i'll have a look at it. (i don't use kinepolis rss, so i don't have any experiences yet)

Ok, having a bit of trouble here with the sabnzbd plugin.  I seem to have no problem running it as root, but it just won't start as nobody.  I get the following message and the browser seems to just sit there.  after refreshing, it goes back to saying the plugin is not started.

 

Starting sabnzbd: sudo -u nobody python /mnt/cache/.sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py -d -s 0.0.0.0:88 --config-file /mnt/cache/.sabnzbd --pid /var/run/sabnzbd > /dev/null 2>&1

 

 

Other than checking out the permissions of the sabnzbd.ini file, is there something else I need to look at? 

 

I have both the app and data installed to my cache drive. 

 

Appreciate the help.

 

 

Sickbeard and Couchpotato both work fine running as nobody. 

Ok, having a bit of trouble here with the sabnzbd plugin.  I seem to have no problem running it as root, but it just won't start as nobody.  I get the following message and the browser seems to just sit there.  after refreshing, it goes back to saying the plugin is not started.

 

Starting sabnzbd: sudo -u nobody python /mnt/cache/.sabnzbd/SABnzbd.py -d -s 0.0.0.0:88 --config-file /mnt/cache/.sabnzbd --pid /var/run/sabnzbd > /dev/null 2>&1

 

 

Other than checking out the permissions of the sabnzbd.ini file, is there something else I need to look at?  

 

I have both the app and data installed to my cache drive.  

 

Appreciate the help.

 

 

Sickbeard and Couchpotato both work fine running as nobody.  

 

As stupid as this sounds:

- Set enabled to "NO" press apply wait for it to do what it does and then exit out of that window completely.

- Go back in and set the install directory, put a check box in the data directory and put the same directory in that window too.

- Set it to nobody.

- Enable it.

 

If that doesn't work i'd just delete the entire .sabnzbd folder and retry with fresh settings. Make sure you put a checkbox in the data directory even if it's the same directory. 99% of my problems like this was caused by:

- Having my user shares set to "Secure" instead of "Public". I have no idea why this would affect it. This was screwing up my file permissions for some reason.

- Not putting a check in the data directory and giving it the same path as the install directory. Again, this shouldn't be needed but if I didn't do it I would experience the same as you. I do this everytime I edit it just to be safe.

 

 

After deleting SickBeard/SABnzbd completely, running "new permissions" again, and following the above guidelines whenever I edit it, i've managed to have a 100% success rate.

 

As stupid as this sounds:

- Set enabled to "NO" press apply wait for it to do what it does and then exit out of that window completely.

- Go back in and set the install directory, put a check box in the data directory and put the same directory in that window too.

- Set it to nobody.

- Enable it.

 

If that doesn't work i'd just delete the entire .sabnzbd folder and retry with fresh settings. Make sure you put a checkbox in the data directory even if it's the same directory. 99% of my problems like this was caused by:

- Having my user shares set to "Secure" instead of "Public". I have no idea why this would affect it. This was screwing up my file permissions for some reason.

- Not putting a check in the data directory and giving it the same path as the install directory. Again, this shouldn't be needed but if I didn't do it I would experience the same as you. I do this everytime I edit it just to be safe.

 

 

After deleting SickBeard/SABnzbd completely, running "new permissions" again, and following the above guidelines whenever I edit it, i've managed to have a 100% success rate.

 

Still no luck.  I deleted everything and tried the setup from the beginning again.  I made sure the checkbox was set for data directory.  I also reviewed my user share settings and everything is set to public, as well as the cache disk share.

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first of all, if you use the same dir for installdir and datadir, it doesn't matter if the checkbox is selected or not. (just ran some tests on this again, everything worked like it should.)

in the moment, the checkbox isn't selected, the (hidden) datadir field has the same value as the installdir field.

 

 

and just found your problem :)

 

you can't use the port 88 as user nobody. all ports below 1024 can only be used by the user root (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/lq-articles-discussion-68/why-can-only-root-listen-to-ports-below-1024-a-623551/)

I have all 3 plugins installed, and can get them all running, and it seems my customizations persist.

 

Once I start SABnzbd, all seems fine, but when I shut it down (by clicking on settings/icon/enable: no), I see the commands, but it takes 5 minutes or more before I can use the web GUI again.

 

I've looked for problems in the syslog, and noticed this, but I'm not sure what to do about it.

 

Oct 30 18:45:49 media emhttp: shcmd (23): :>/etc/samba/smb-shares.conf
Oct 30 18:45:49 media emhttp: get_config_idx: fopen /boot/config/shares/plugins.cfg: No such file or directory - assigning defaults
Oct 30 18:45:49 media emhttp: Restart SMB...
Oct 30 18:45:49 media emhttp: shcmd (24): killall -HUP smbd
Oct 30 18:45:49 media emhttp: shcmd (25): ps axc | grep -q rpc.mountd
Oct 30 18:45:49 media emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (25): exit status: 1
Oct 30 18:45:49 media emhttp: shcmd (26): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event svcs_restarted

 

there is no plugins.cfg file in that location, should there be?

 

When I go to the monitor connected to the unRAID box, I can see the commands that were issued, but it looks hung (no prompt available), but I can click enter and get back to a prompt.  This won't necessarily give me the web GUI again.

 

I've read this thread several times, and tried everything as best I can, but I'm not sure what is causing this long delay.

 

Also, sickbeard finds episode lists, but doesn't see to have actually found any episodes.  I've never used it before, but I'm thinking I've got something set up wrong.  Where should I look for errors to figure out what I might be doing wrong?

syslog-2011-10-301.zip

Hello All.  I'm using v5b12 of Unraid.  What's the correct way of rebooting Unraid with all these plugins running?  Do I have to shut them down 1 by 1 before I use Unmenu's scripted shutdown?  The reason I want to do this is I find my couchpotato's kinepolis rss only working whenever there's a reboot.  It's the only time that it will add movies based on rss of kinepolis.  I try to restart CP via the provided restart, but can't get it back up and running.  Only thing to get it back up and running is to reboot Unraid.  To be able to do this, I have to shutdown both Sabnzbd and Sickbeard.  All from the plugin provided by Benni-chan here.  You can imagine it's quite a hassle to shutdown all services, and reboot unmenu.  What are you guys doing?  Do you also experience the same issue of Kinepolis rss not running?

 

since I don't use unmenu, I can't say what it does on it's restart command. when i want to restart my server, I stop the array and restart the server from the normal unraid gui. (my plugins stop all the apps in this case.)

 

i find it strange, that your kinepolis rss works only after a server restart. but i would believe this to be a bug inside of couchpotato, not the plugin. but i'll have a look at it. (i don't use kinepolis rss, so i don't have any experiences yet)

 

 

Benni-chan, Thanks for the instructions.  I believe unmenu's stop script only does the same thing, if not even safer.  I'll take your advise and restart the server whenever needed.  But the plugin itself's restart for couchpotato will not come back up without restarting the unraid server?

first of all, if you use the same dir for installdir and datadir, it doesn't matter if the checkbox is selected or not. (just ran some tests on this again, everything worked like it should.)

in the moment, the checkbox isn't selected, the (hidden) datadir field has the same value as the installdir field.

 

 

and just found your problem :)

 

you can't use the port 88 as user nobody. all ports below 1024 can only be used by the user root (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/lq-articles-discussion-68/why-can-only-root-listen-to-ports-below-1024-a-623551/)

 

YES!  It worked.  I never would have found that my existing port was out of range for "nobody"

 

Thanks so much for your help!

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Benni-chan, Thanks for the instructions.  I believe unmenu's stop script only does the same thing, if not even safer.  I'll take your advise and restart the server whenever needed.  But the plugin itself's restart for couchpotato will not come back up without restarting the unraid server?

you can restart couchpotato if you set it to enable:no, and then to enable:yes again. (disabling stops it and enabling starts it again.)

a server restart should never be necessary. (i only restart when testing new versions of the plugins or when a new unraid version comes out.)

 

there is no plugins.cfg file in that location, should there be?

there should only be a plugins.cfg file in that dir, if you created a share named plugins. (maybe you created a dir named plugins on your array, which is automatically used as a share. i don't know, when or if  it will create the cfg file too)

 

When I go to the monitor connected to the unRAID box, I can see the commands that were issued, but it looks hung (no prompt available), but I can click enter and get back to a prompt.  This won't necessarily give me the web GUI again.

i would like more infos about your config. what did you enter as installdir and datadir?

 

Also, sickbeard finds episode lists, but doesn't see to have actually found any episodes.  I've never used it before, but I'm thinking I've got something set up wrong.  Where should I look for errors to figure out what I might be doing wrong?

did you set up the search providers in sickbeard? check your configuration.

From another thread...

...how do I recover from a failed attempt to upgrade thru the web interface of couch potato?

currently the only way is to delete the installdir and then start couchpotato again via the gui (the latest version will be installed).

i already submitted a bugfix for this to the developer of couchpotato, but so far he hasn't added it.

 

more infos are in the thread in the plugin (unraid v5) section.

 

That worked.  Unfortunately, I crossed myself up and forgot to delete before I restarted, but after I deleted the install directory from /usr/local/..., then restarted again, it loaded fine, and appears to be running fine since.

 

In fact all 3 plugins seem to be running fine, but I'm not getting any results.  I'm still working thru the setup, and don't have a premium indexer yet, so I'm still working thru that issue.  however, I think I have them installed correctly now, thanks.

 

there is no plugins.cfg file in that location, should there be?

there should only be a plugins.cfg file in that dir, if you created a share named plugins. (maybe you created a dir named plugins on your array, which is automatically used as a share. i don't know, when or if  it will create the cfg file too)

I didn't specifically create a share, but I created a folder on /mnt/disk1/plugins to keep the data files for plugins.  I don't yet have a cache drive, and will move them once that's resolved.  Why would the script call for that file if there is a share?  in the end, it doesn't seem to matter, so I'm not worried about it; I just noticed it in the logs, and thought it worth investigating at the time.

 

When I go to the monitor connected to the unRAID box, I can see the commands that were issued, but it looks hung (no prompt available), but I can click enter and get back to a prompt.  This won't necessarily give me the web GUI again.

i would like more infos about your config. what did you enter as installdir and datadir?

I installed to the flash/default location, but moved the data to the location above, so it would persist.

 

Also, sickbeard finds episode lists, but doesn't see to have actually found any episodes.  I've never used it before, but I'm thinking I've got something set up wrong.  Where should I look for errors to figure out what I might be doing wrong?

did you set up the search providers in sickbeard? check your configuration.

 

yeah, but none of the premium ones, and quickly as a test.  I will look thru the config a couple more times.

 

Do I have to use a username/password for SickBeard or CouchPotato?  I know I do with SABnzbd, but the other ones don't seem a big security risk to me, and the password just adds another layer of complication to putting it all together.

 

also from another thread, but related to my troubles above.  I lost the web GUI, and didn't know how else to reboot properly, so I just tested this, and it worked PERFECTLY!!!!!

To test if the power button will send an ACPI message, do as I outlined

 

Type

killall acpid

cat /proc/acpi/event

 

then momentarily press the power button (press it for less than a second).

 

If you see a message like this:

button/power PWRF 00000080 00000001

the power button will work to send a message to shut down the server.

 

You can then type

"control-C" on the screen with the "cat" command to stop it.

 

then type

/etc/rc.d/rc.acpid restart

 

to re-start the acpi daemon process you killed earlier.

 

Then type

grep power /etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh

 

If you see

 

# tmm - power off via webGui

#    power) /sbin/init 0

      power) /sbin/powerdown

 

It will indicate you installed WeeboTech's powerdown package through the most recent unMENU pagkage installer.  It (unMENU's package) updated /etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh to have it invoke /sbin/powerdown instead of /usr/local/sbin/powerdown. 

 

This is the only way I know (so far) that will terminate processes holding disks busy, un-mount the disks, stop the array cleanly, save copies of log files, and then power down.  It does not depend on "emhttp" running at all.

 

As I said, when my server is idle I will simply type

/usr/local/sbin/powerdown

I'll watch it power down and see if it attempts to stop the array first.

 

If all of the above it true, in my situation, is that enough confirmation this will cleanly shut down my array, or is the only way to KNOW to actually just do it?

 

I took some pictures of the monitor when I see the weird 'hang-ups' and will type them out and post soon for feedback on how to resolve.

 

I also didn't see a response to this, but it did look relevant to the GUI hanging up...

 

Oct 31 12:52:50 media emhttp: rdevName.22 not found

Oct 31 12:52:51 media emhttp: diskFsStatus.1 not found

Oct 31 12:52:51 media kernel: emhttp[7635]: segfault at 0 ip b7559760 sp bfdf5b10 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b74e0000+15c000]

Oct 31 12:56:02 media emhttp: unRAID System Management Utility version 5.0-beta12a

Oct 31 12:56:02 media emhttp: Copyright © 2005-2011, Lime Technology, LLC

Oct 31 12:56:02 media emhttp: Basic key detected, GUID:

Oct 31 12:56:02 media emhttp: rdevName.22 not found

Oct 31 12:56:02 media emhttp: diskFsStatus.1 not found

Oct 31 12:56:02 media kernel: emhttp[7701]: segfault at 0 ip b75c4760 sp bf876170 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b754b000+15c000]

So, I just tested again, and shutting down SickBeard thru the plugin was rather quick, a few seconds.  restarting it isn't as fast.  it's been 2 minutes so far, and the "Done" button is still not selectable.  Last night it was taking about 10 to 15 minutes for it to finally start responding again if I just left it alone.

 

Here is (part of) one of the messages from before I deleted couchpotato from the install directory.  I don't know how to print/capture these messages, nor where it might be saved, so I just have what was on the screen when I took the photo.

 

python: can't open file '/usr/local/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Exception in thread SHOWQUEUE-REFRESH:
Traceback (most recent call last):
{let me know if you need/want details of all this}
"+self.name+", skipping", logger.WARNING)
IndexError: list indes out of range

run_cmd: /etc/re.d/rc.sickbeard disable nobody 8081 /usr/local/sickbeard /usr/local/sickbeard /mnt/disk1/plugins/sickbeard
run_cmd: /etc/re.d/rc.sickbeard enable nobody 8081 /usr/local/sickbeard /usr/local/sickbeard /mnt/disk1/plugins/sickbeard
/etc/re.d/rc.sickbeard: line 78: [: missing ']'

 

and it was just sitting there and went back to a prompt when I hit enter

 

this is one I've seen since day 1, but everything seems to work fine, so I'm not sure if this matters or not...

#
Executing install script for utempter-1.1.4-i486-1.tgz
chown: cannot access 'var/log/wtmp': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access 'var/log/wtmp': No such file or directory
Package utempter-1.1.4-i486-1.tgz installed.

Welcome to Linux
media login: installing latest Version of couchpotato
starting couch potato...
installing latest version (0.6.10)
starting sabnzbd...
installing the latest version of sickbeard
starting sickbeard: sudo -u nobody python /usr/local/sickbeard/SickBeard.py -d -p 8081 --datadir /mnt/disk1/plugins/sickbeard --pidfile /var/run/sickbeard/sickbeard/pid > /dev/null 2>&1
                                    please refresh the page

 

the web GUI is not available until I hit enter here.

 

It has been almost 20 minutes, since I restarted SickBeard, and the web GUI is still not available.  Wait, just as I finished typing, it just became available, about 20 minutes.  it takes about 15 seconds to do it with the SickBeard web GUI.

 

any ideas how to resolve this behavior?

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wow, that's a lot of info to work through :)

 

first your hang with sickbeard:

this is a known bug, but i have never experienced it when sickbeard was started automatically on server restart. (i'm guessing your second code block is from when you restarted the server?)

when sickbeard is started in the webgui, the gui will hang, but you can just reload the page and the hanging stops.

i still haven't found the bug causing the hang, or a workaround. (in my previous plugins, before the new pluginsystem, i could just kill the hanging part of the webinterface, but now it would kill the entire webinterface, which of course isn't good...)

 

 

are you sure, the emhttp segfaults were caused by my plugins?

 

i don't use a user/password for all my apps. sabnzbd has its api key, but that's all the protection i configured

 

if sickbeard and couchpotato are still not finding any files, you should check their logfiles for errors.

HELP!!!

 

My Array won't start after installing these plugins! Once the server finishes booting and I click on "main" on the unRAID menu page the Array just hangs on "Starting" and pressing the Refresh button doesnt change anything. I have waited a good 10 minutes and the Array still does not start.

However, If I then power down the server and remove the three files from the plugins folder, the array starts fine as normal.

 

I installed the three plugin files from the first post in this thread like this;

 

Using a windows box:-

 

- Right clicked on the link to the file and selected "Save As", changed the file type to "All Files" (to remove the .xml extension) and added a .plg extension to the filename

- repeated the above for the other two files

- copied them to the /config/plugins folder on the flash drive

 

I'm a total noob to Linux and unRAID so please be gentle with me.

 

What info can I give you to help me resolve this problem?

Do you want me to post a copy of my "go" script?

Or is there a logfile I can post that will help? If so where is it?

 

Please help....

 

 

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ok, i'll need some more infos.

 

which version of unraid are you using?

 

you should not have to edit the go script for these plugins at all, but if you post it, i can check, if something in there would cause the array to not start.

 

have you configured any of the plugins in the webgui? i.e. set installdir, enabled them?

 

in the folder /var/logs you can find the syslog. please post it to check for errors.

(connect with putty via telnet to your server, login as root (no password) and type "cp /var/logs/syslog /boot" and you should find the syslog file on your flashdrive.)

Thanks so much for responding and for taking the time to write these great plugins.

 

I am sure my problem will be user error ragther than something wrong with the plugins themselves.

 

OK, first off, I am on the latest beta of unRAID v5 (I think its 5.0-beta-13-AiO)

 

I was running 4.7 initiall but was swung over to the 5.0 beta for two main reasons;

 

- The ability to run the "SimpleFeatures" package / plugin, which I thought had a much nicer looking Web GUI

- Your SAB, SickBeard and CouchPotato plugins (since this is pretty much all I built this box for as well as unRAID)

 

I should tell you that I am by no means a Linux expert so I have been following guides I have found online on the forums (mostly this one) to get where I am so far. I tried to install SABnzbd before upgrading to 5.0 beta but for the life of my I don't remember how!

 

Once upgraded to 5.0beta and with unMenu installed I added SAB through unMenu so I had a working install then. I was hoping that installing your plugins would simply over-ride that.

 

In an effort to "fault find" I removed the three plugins from the /boot/config/plugins folder. This allowed me to reboot the server and the Array started without problems.

 

I then added in the couch potato plugins back into that folder and rebooted - This added the couch potato icon under the network services section although I dont see the sections below, showing the application as running or not with their respective parameters as shown in your screen shot on the first post. However I was able to start couchpotato and view its web GUI on port 5000. This leads me to think this is not the plugin at fault.

 

So I added the Sickbeard plugin to that folder and again was able to start and view Sickbeard. The Array was still starting no problem.

 

My problems come when I try to add the SABnzbd plugin!! I tried to uninstall the package from unMenu and this seems to help in as much as the array now starts and SAB starts too. But, somewhat strangely, CouchPotato now does not start!!!

 

So I plugged a monitor into the server and looked at the error messages onscreen.

 

I wont retype them verbose but it looks like the couchpotato plugin is trying to copy files from the /usr/local/couchpotato directory but they are not there. They are within another directory within that directory called RuudBurger-CouchPotato-1d99335 or something like that. So I copied all the files from there into the directory above it (/usr/local/couchpotato) and re-enabled the couchpotato app from the WEB GUI and its starts fine.

 

So I now have all three apps running and unRAID has started the array. However I am concerned that it wont work on reboot and it seems the current situation is a bit "messy" to say the least

 

So, I am looking for a little help to 'tidy up' my unraid flash drive (delete unnecessary versions of SAB and fix the couchpotato plugin so it all works seamlessly from a clean reboot

 

Can you help please?

 

PS - I dont have /var/logs directory, just a /var one  -- But no logs directory within it????

 

 

 

 

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