CouchPotato won't start after restart

[MortenSJ]

Hi

I seem to have a bit of problems with these plugins :/ .. CouchPotato was running fine after it was installed. I then restarted the plugin via the webbrower, and now it won't start.

According to the WebUI, it's still running, but i can't access the service any longer. Any tips or people having similar issues? It has happened before :/

Best, Morten

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

What output do you get when you run 'service couchpotato status && couchpotato start' in the jail?
Can you ping your computer from the jail?

 

[MortenSJ]

When i do that i get this.

root@couchpotato_1:/ # service couchpotato status && couchpotato start
couchpotato is running as pid 4629.
couchpotato: Command not found.
root@couchpotato_1:/ #

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

When i do that i get this.

root@couchpotato_1:/ # service couchpotato status && couchpotato start
couchpotato is running as pid 4629.
couchpotato: Command not found.
root@couchpotato_1:/ #

OK, so couchpotato is running. what about the jail being able to route out connections. can it ping your computer?

 

[MortenSJ]

How do i see if it can do that?

Also, it seems like my sabnzbd is not working either. It's a bit weird. It stopped working after restart. I can't seem to turn it on in the plugin manager.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

How do i see if it can do that?

Also, it seems like my sabnzbd is not working either. It's a bit weird. It stopped working after restart. I can't seem to turn it on in the plugin manager.

figure out the IP of your computer. use 'ifconfig' for most OSs, then from the jail run 'ping X.X.X.X'

if your jails can't route connections then the start/stop button on the plugins tab won't work. you can try 'service sabnzbd onestart' from the sabnzbd jail to check if it's running

 

[MortenSJ]

Ah of course.

Yes, i can easily ping my computer from the couchpotato jail. I just found out that the port number has changed. I accidentally hit a number and changed it. Working now. Oh man, a little embarrassing :/

So I ran the service sabnzbd onestart and got this back

root@sabnzbd_1:/ # service sabnzbd onestart
Starting sabnzbd.
su: pam_start: system error
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sabnzbd: WARNING: failed to start sabnzbd
root@sabnzbd_1:/ #

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Ah of course.

Yes, i can easily ping my computer from the couchpotato jail. I just found out that the port number has changed. I accidentally hit a number and changed it. Working now. Oh man, a little embarrassing :/

So I ran the service sabnzbd onestart and got this back

root@sabnzbd_1:/ # service sabnzbd onestart
Starting sabnzbd.
su: pam_start: system error
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sabnzbd: WARNING: failed to start sabnzbd
root@sabnzbd_1:/ #

OK glad couchpotato is working.

that error with sabnzbd likely means permissions or ownership of the jail got changed which breaks the jail. did you happen to change this?

 

[MortenSJ]

Actually i did.

I couldn't get sabnzbd to put my downloads in /media . I then changed the persmissions, and then it worked, but i guess i messed up the jail.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Actually i did.

I couldn't get sabnzbd to put my downloads in /media . I then changed the persmissions, and then it worked, but i guess i messed up the jail.

if you have a jail snapshot you can restore to that

otherwise you should copy out your /var/db/sabnzbd directory, install a new instance of sabnzbd and copy that directory back (media/UID 816 should own it).

never change the permissions of your jail datasets, only datasets that you mount into your jail.

 

[MortenSJ]

Okay. Thanks a lot! .. I'll try and fix it.

 

[MortenSJ]

Is there an easy way to copy out that dir via the GUI?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Is there an easy way to copy out that dir via the GUI?

I don't think so. I'd personally use the commandline

 

[MortenSJ]

Thanks a lot for your help. Got it all to work :)

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Thanks a lot for your help. Got it all to work :)

Awesome!