Hi gents.

I'm running ktorrent 4.0.3 on kde 4.5.1 + kubuntu 10.10, all binaries are provided by the distro.

Since I installed kubuntu 10.10, this build of ktorrent has been behaving quite erratically.

My ktorrent session has 6 torrents. I have setup my web browser to feed torrents directly to ktorrent. First, the torrent is saved on the local disk, and a file path is passed to ktorrent. This is working properly.

When I click a torrent link online, ktorrent pops up a message box saying

"An error occured while loading the torrent /home/username/Documents: Unable to open torrent file /home/username/Documents: file to open is a directory
The torrent is probably corrupt or is not a valid torrent file"

And immediately after, without me doing anything, it shows the regular download dialog when a new torrent is added, over the message box.

I just click ok on both and the torrent starts downloading. Then I close ktorrent and next time I try to open it, it closes by itself after being barely visible. I try to open it again, and this time it stays open but the last torrent I added is gone. The torrents are lost too even if they are left for hours and the download completed.

Anyone know anything about this ? What kind of info would you like me to give you ?

First, please check the permissions of ~/.kde* on your system. All files and folders should be read-write to your user.

Also, try running "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental".

Finally, please post the command you are using to run KTorrent when you open a .torrent file.

Permissions are ok. ktorrent does work overall.

Calling kbuilsyscoca4 didn't have any effect at all, problem kept happening.

The command the web browser is using is a simple "/usr/bin/ktorrent <path to file>"

Anyway I gave up. Just deleted the .kde/share/config/ktorrrentrc file and .kde/share/apps/ktorrent folder and lets see how it goes. So far first experiment went ok. The dialog poping up with the Document folder path seemed just a bad leftover config somewhere.