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Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:24:15 -0000

Hey eldo,

First off, interesting fix. Second off, I don't recommend editing the code for Couch Potato directly as next time it goes to update itself it'll likely overwrite your changes or it may even cause problems beyond that.

Instead I'd suggest reporting this as a possible fix on Couch Potato's GitHub or forum.

Also, it is already possible to disable Couch Potato from launching the browser at startup via the web interface or via the config.ini file in the .couchpotato directory and I've not seen any issue with Couch Potato ignoring this configuration option when launching it with "python ~/.couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d".

I have used Startup Applications in the past as it is dead simple and may alone be a good fix for the startup issues people are experiencing (However, it may not get Couch Potato to shutdown properly).

Anyway, definitely appreciate the ideas and feedback and please do relay this to the Couch Potato forums as my main focus is in writing the guides themselves and bugs should be reported to the projects directly.

Cheers!

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:12:42 -0000

Hi Zeff,

Make sure you've installed SABnzbd+ via the official Ubuntu or Linux Mint repositories or via JCFP's PPA first as that should resolve all dependencies for Sick Beard. If you've done this already or continue to have this issue after doing so hop on to Sick Beard's forums or Freenode IRC channel and see if anyone can help you there.

Best of luck,

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

eldo — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:15:55 -0000

I also had the same symptoms as described by a few users here: CouchPotato would fail to start upon boot (maybe 1 in 10 times it would start) and manually running '/etc/init.d/couchpotato start' would get the 'start-stop-daemon: unable to open pidfile '/var/run/couchpotato.pid'' error. I could start it with sudo but this resulted in files with incorrect permissions.

I fixed the issue as below:
Edited CouchPotato.py in the install directory (for me it was /home/user/.couchpotato)
Line 117 should read 'app.launchBrowser(host, port)'
Comment this out by putting a # in front, so the line reads '#app.launchBrowser(host, port)'
(this stops the auto launch of your browser when manually starting CP in daemon mode)
Go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and click Add
Name is couchpotato
Command is 'python /home/user/.couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d' without the quote marks. Change this if you have Couchpotato installed elsewhere.
Save this and reboot a few times, testing if CP is running - it should run every time. If it doesn't, then manually issue the python command and see what result you get.

All we are doing is running CP at boot, and have edited the script so it doesn't also launch the browser. Because CP checks to see if it's already running, you shouldn't get any issues on those boots where CP does run as it's supposed to.
Hope that helps a few people.
Cheers
eldo

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Zeff — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:40:02 -0000

I am getting an error saying I am missing _sqlite3. This err "ImportError: No module named _sqlite3" I think I have it installed already because of it says "libsqlite3-dev is already the newest version" when I try to install it. Any thought?

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:23:23 -0000

Hi Aleks,

Thanks again for the fix/addition. I got it tested and updated the script to include it.

Cheers!

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:16:16 -0000

Thanks for following up Legoman666,

Just for your reference mdadm is for managing multi-disk arrays (such as RAID) in case you did in fact need that, or need it in the future.

Re: SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:14:47 -0000

Hey Matt,

The PPA is up and hasn't gone down anytime that I've seen. You may need to add the repository via the command line/terminal due to an annoying bug in Ubuntu.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jcfp/ppa

That should get you going.

Re: SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Matt — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:44:09 -0000

I think the Sabnzbd+ build is missing?? It fails to download

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Legoman666 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:36:31 -0000

Sorry, I was able to fix it shortly after I made the post here. It turns out that some other package that I had installed put itself on port 8083 (package name was "mdadm" for those wondering). I removed it, rebooted, and Couch Potato is working fine now.

Thanks for the great guide/script!

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0000

Hi Legoman666,

I don't have a solution for this as it's working fine for me. At this point I recommend that anyone that's having the problem revert to the default Couch Potato auto-start script (/home/$USER/.couchpotato/initd and edit it accordingly). If the problem persist submit a bug report to Couch Potato directly and launch it manually (python /home/$USER/.couchpotato/CouchPotato.py).

These scripts have actually been replaced by Upstart scripts, so it may just be that the init scripts are showing their age a bit here. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer so apart from hacking them together a bit and a bit a basic trouble-shooting they quickly get outside my skill set.

In the future sedux may be able to provide an Upstart based script to completely replace this, but currently we don't have one available.

Best of luck!

Re: SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:24:35 -0000

Hey Greg,

You're welcome for the guides!

1. I'm not quite sure what problem you're running into here. I've noticed some bugs with adding PPA's via the GUI but via add-apt-repository I've not had any issues. I'd suggest retrying via the above command and see if that fixes the issues (it should allow you to update SABnzbd+ if so).

2. I generally don't cover anything more than single system setups. But you can change Couch Potato to 0.0.0.0 via the General tab via its web interface. Sick Beard can be configured by going into your .sickbeard folder and opening up the config.ini file and changing the web_host line (should be third one from the top).

Take care!
daemox

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Legoman666 — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:57:07 -0000

I'm getting the same problem now too. I didn't change anything. It just stopped working suddenly after a reboot. I never ran the script as root.

Re: SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Greg Mountford — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:29:08 -0000

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for an amazingly well-explained tutorial.
I've installed sickbeard, sabnzbdplus, couchpotato and headphones almost as per your guide, but ran into a few problems that others may too:

1. JCFP's ppa gave me GPG errors on command line in apt and some other error in the software manager. I'm running oneiric, so I tried to change the release in the ppa to 'natty' but that didn't seem to help. Instead I removed JCFP's ppa and installed from the default repository.

2. I'm running all these on my HTPC (HP Proliant Microserver, Nvidia Geforce 210, Ubuntu Oneiric) and want to connect to the services from my home network (laptop & tablet). All services are running on the ports I selected, but are only accessible from the same machine except for sickbeard. Running the command:
netstat -anltp | grep "LISTEN"
shows sickbeard is listening on 0.0.0.0 while the rest are on 127.0.0.1. According to the all-knowing Google, when a service listens on 127.0.0.1 it is only accessible from the same machine, so I have to edit the others' config for 0.0.0.0 rather than the 'localhost' or 127.0.0.1 that I'd set them to.

Ciao,
Greg

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:14:56 -0000

Hey Keala,

You're most welcome! As for your problem, what command are you using to launch Sick Beard manually? Also have you ever launched it while using sudo at the start of the command? It looks like you edited the script to hard code in your username and directory. Remember the EXT3/4 filesystems are case sensitive so if your home folder is "Xbmc" or "XBMC" that is not the same as "xbmc".

Off the top of my head that's all I can think of currently. I'd suggest re-importing the script fresh (copy/paste on top of your existing script) and re-running all the commands I list in my guide (sudo chmod x+u, etc). If you have ran Sick Beard with sudo (or think you may have), you will want to delete the .sickbeard folder and reinstall from scratch (or Google on how to fix your permissions if you'd rather).

Running Sick Beard as root is the most common cause of problems that I've seen.

Best of luck and please feel free to post follow-up questions or to email me directly if that's more convenient.

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Keala — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:42:51 -0000

Thank you for typing up your guide!

I'm having trouble getting the script to launch Sickbeard. I run "/etc/init.d/sickbeard start" and get the message confirming the start, but I'm not able to login to the web interface. It's only when I manually start Sickbeard can I login.

Xbmc is my user off an xbmc-live install

#Required -- Must Be Changed!USER="xbmc" #Set Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Debian username here. #Required -- Defaults Provided (only change if you know you need to).HOST="127.0.0.1" #Set Sick Beard address here.PORT="8081" #Set Sick Beard port here. #Optional -- Unneeded unless you have added a Username and Password to Sick Bear$SBUSR="" #Set Sick Beard Username (if you use one) here.SBPWD="" #Set Sick Beard Password (if you use one) here. #Script -- No changes needed below.case "$1" instart)#Start Sick Beard and send all messages to /dev/null.cd /home/xbmc/.sickbeardecho "Starting Sick Beard"sudo -u xbmc -H nohup python /home/xbmc/.sickbeard/SickBeard.py -q > /dev/null 2$;;stop)

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:12:50 -0000

Hi pislonneke,

Unfortunately I'm not sure what the issue is here. The PID files have always been hit or miss in my experience. You could try reverting to the default Couch Potato script and see if that fixes. Otherwise you may just have to manually launch the program when you restart your system for the time being or seek support on Couch Potato's forums as this is getting into the programming realm.

Best of luck!

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:08:53 -0000

Hi David,

Thanks for the compliment and the suggestion. I'll take a look at this in my next revision. To clarify though you had to specific your exact local IP address (such 192.168.1.33)? If so, which browser and OS were you using?

If so, I haven't had this be an issue with SABnzbd+ since my original guide so I'm curious about this.

Cheers!

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:06:26 -0000

Hey Fintan,

Thanks for catching this, as I had noted this may cause some confusion as it's currently implemented and it certainly did! I'll make this a bit more "clear" in my next revision.

Thanks again,

Re: RAID 5 & 6 Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

daemox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:03:03 -0000

Hi Ozgur,

I'm glad the guide worked out for you! Thanks for the note about the 3TB alignment as well. Unfortunately I haven't gotten to play with 3TB drives yet so I'm currently unable to help with them. Happy you provided a link, cheers!

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:00:22 -0000

Hey Aleks,

Thanks for that modification. I'll give it a test and include the fix in my next revision of the script. I had noticed that the notifications were not working, but it was never a priority so I never investigated more so thanks for this!

Cheers!

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

daemox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:57:16 -0000

Hey Dsmtsi,

I've been away, and getting back to Ainer.org currently. Please let me know if you still have questions about operating system selection. Ubuntu is my recommended personal computer operating system and is what I run for my HTPC as well.

I'd be happy to provide more details and suggestions if you're still feeling it out. Shoot me an email if you'd like.

Re: SABnzbd+ Install, Setup, and Configuration Guide for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

daemox — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:52:02 -0000

Hi Richard,

This guide is actually retired and is no longer supported. I don't use or recommend the multi-threaded par application any longer.

Thanks for the note though,
daemox

Re: Sick Beard Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Aleks Saul — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:35:21 -0000

Thank you for the guide.

Wanted to mention the script edited via gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/sickbeard
on line 39 contains
sudo -u $USER -H nohup python /home/$USER/.sickbeard/SickBeard.py -q > /dev/null 2>&1 &it can be modified to add -E switch as;sudo -u $USER -H nohup python /home/$USER/.sickbeard/SickBeard.py -q > /dev/null 2>&1 &

this allows the script to use the user's Environment variables. (This seemed to cause issue if user wants to use libnotify for notifications enabled under sickbeard/notification menu).

Cheers

Re: RAID 5 & 6 Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

Ozgur Gurtuna — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:56:23 -0000

Hi there,

Thank you for this fantastic guide. It was very useful for me. I had a similar issue with misalignment. In my case it was due to the 4096 byte sector size of my 3TB drives. I was able to resolve it by using GNU parted prior to setting up the RAID. I used these instructions: http://www.cyberciti.biz/ti...

I hope this helps.

Re: Couch Potato Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint!

Fintan Gaughan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:06:11 -0000

Hi Jim
I had the same problem but solved it by not doing the last bit where you input "/home/USERNAME/.xbmc/userdata/Database"Just leave it blank :-)