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Hi Everyone,

I had sickbeard running nicely on the Pi then 2 main things changed, I switched from PlusNet to Virgin Media and I changed the setup on my Pi so that everything wrote to a Samba Share instead a locally mounted external HDD.

since then I can log into the sickbeard interface but whenever I add a show (new / existing) it just gets stuck "loading". I have since reverted to a fresh "vanilla" sickbeard install that writes to local storage and I still get the same issue. I have posted the whole issue here:

http://sickbeard.com/forums/viewtopic.p ... 256#p40256

They have suggested I post here in case its a Raspbian issue, personally I am not convinced it is but I would appreciate the extra eyes on the issue! Thank you to anyone willing to look a the sickbeard post and try and help, if its more convenient for me to post the logs here I can do

p.s. Sorry if i accidentally double posted this.

As a fellow Virgin Media customer, I can confirm it's definitely not any ISP 'filtering' causing the TVdb lockup issues.
Your problem does sound like the old install of sickbeard isn't completely gone and you're now running two instances and it's getting confused..
If you have a spare SD card to try and fresh Raspbian install and then a fresh sickbeard, I suspect it'll work fine (I'm running the latest Sickbeard alpha, and I'm fully apt-get'd up to date).

Also, Samba is far more resource heavy on Linux than NFS.
If you are writing to a Samba share, it will use a lot of CPU, of which the Pi doesn't have much, especially if you're unpacking GiBs of TV shows and running multi-threaded sabNZBd downloads and possibly torrents.
Store all the db files locally, and get NFS setup to connect to your HDD. You'll Pi will react a lot quicker working with NFS shares than Samba.