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NTGR-OPS
Jun 23, 2017Tutor
couchpotato fails to start
Well, I know this might seem like an old topic, but I cannot find an answer and after several hours trying everthing I can think of on my own, have decided to reach out to the experts.
I had Couchpotato 3.0.1-1 working, wne away for a week, came back and it wasn't running. Attempts to start it gave me an error. Something akin to "failed to start".
I've actually seen this before, and have reuploaded the package in the past with success. This time no luck.
Tried deleting the file useing a combination of purge and rm commands, and tried to reinstall.
The system tells me that "System: Application couchpotato is installed successfully.". But it's not.
Tried rebooting, loading 3.0.1, then updating to 3.0.1-1, nope.
This error if i try to remove the app.
root@ReadyNAS:/apps# apt-get remove couchpotato
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
couchpotato
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
After this operation, 10.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 34302 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing couchpotato (3.0.1-1) ...
Failed to stop fvapp-couchpotato.service: Unit fvapp-couchpotato.service not loaded.
dpkg: error processing package couchpotato (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
Errors were encountered while processing:
couchpotato
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I'm lost and need help.
Found new version on GIT. Seems to have fixed it.
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- NTGR-OPSTutor
Log sent. Thanks for your help.
RN31600
6.7.4
Someone suggested this?
Remove this from /var/lib/ddpkg/status, and reinstall. i'm concerned about the purge ok installed status.
Package: couchpotato
Status: purge ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: contrib
Installed-Size: 9980
Maintainer: Mhynlo <mhynlo@mhynlo.io>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.0.1-1
Depends: readynasos (>= 6.1.0), php5-sqlite, python, git
Description: CouchPotato
Automatic Movie Downloading via NZBs & Torrents.
Homepage: https://couchpota.to/also, reinstalling fails.
root@ReadyNAS:~# apt-get install --reinstall couchpotato
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of couchpotato is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded.- NTGR-OPSTutor
Found new version on GIT. Seems to have fixed it.
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