How do I get KTorrent to download
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I know, it's a (maybe?) beginner's problem, but I spent the whole day googling and what not, and 26h later I nearly destroyed my pc:
My os is Ubuntu 12.10 and I installed KTorrent 4.2.1. KTorrent starts just fine, opens torrents – as it turned out my happiest minutes with the app – but it just DOES NOT DOWNLOAD (capital letters not for yelling but for pointing out that KTorrent doesn't do what it's built to do!)... I tried some of the suggestions in the www (even if nobody seems to experience exactly the same problems), tried different port numbers, but in the end it's all the same: KTorrent opens, I see my torrents (some stalled, some queued) but 0 B/s 0 nodes 0 anything... No warnings, no signs of any problems, just nothing... In the end, I hope anyone in this forum can help me, otherwise it's back to win xp for me 
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what ports are Ktorrent using?
did you open the corresponding ports in your firewall? run the following in Konsole to see if your Ktorrent assigned ports are opened
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Thanks for the reply, I really hope we'll get it running...
1. Port:59831 UDP port:58907 2. Don't know anythings about any firewalls in place; I'm using a ADSL wlan modem (but if you tell me there could be some firewall in that thing, I'll look into it) 3. Running the code in terminal reveals the following:
Should've mentioned before: All other torrent client (transmission, qbittorrent, deluge) work perfectly (and quite fast!), but I don't think they could interfere with KTorrent since I only installed them after KTorrent failed to do the job. |
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it looks to me that your ports are open, but I don't really have much of an understanding
note: some distros have sw firewalls that require you to open ports for apps like Ktorrent but it does not seem to be an issue in your case in Ktorrent settings -> network -> network interface, what interface is being used? try all
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Currently it says All interfaces...
For what it's worth, I'll try eth instead (if that's no good I can connect via wlan too and try wlan-interface). Overcautiously as I am I'm rebooting after every change made in the configuration to give the app every chance... |
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you shouldn't need to reboot, if it make you feel better you can restart the app but not sure that would make a difference
for the torrents you're trying to dl do you see seeders and leechers ?
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Now I tried every possible interface – nothing so far (I'll stick to All interfaces for now).
KTorrent seems to have no connection to the www whatsoever, all torrents show 0 L, 0 S (while, as mentioned above, the same torrents work just fine in qBittorrent for example)... Seems I have to go for qBt anyway although from the looks of it I would really prefer KTorrent... |
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the file ~/kde/share/apps/ktorrent/log is there anything suspicious in it?
you can paste it here but either use the code tags or paste it on pastebin.com and post the link here
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Sorry I can't access that log file since the directory ~/kde/share/apps/ktorrent doesn't exist (in fact, there isn't even a directory ~/kde)...
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~/ is your home directory, /home/account_name/ you can cd to it
and it's .kde, not kde (my bad) so it would be /home/account_name/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/log
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Should've noticed that it has to be invisible... In the end, here it comes:
O, and wether this will finally work or not, I really appreciate all your help! |
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could you try dl'ing http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/relea ... p-i386.iso just to see if it runs, if so then just stop it
we're way outside my knowledge base but the line
just doesn't seem correct to me
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Yeah, the image started at about 110 kb/sec and the speed would have increased further hadn't I stopped the download...
The system works flawlessly, the internet connection is stable and no other app than KTorrent seems to have any trouble at all (and even KTorrent doesn't report any errors – I would've gladly reported any bug)... As for the log entries: It's the first log of a torrent client I've seen (I only used transmission & uT on my macs & bittorrent on my xp-pc before, none of them gave me any headache)... |
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did you try that torrent with Ktorrent? or other client?
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No the link was direct dl via ff; but since then a most wondrous thing happened:
tried to dl the iso via torrent – again, nothing happened in KTorrent. I wanted to try 1 last time for today, again new network configuration and what not, came across some plugins & activated all with an useful name  I closed/restarted the app, opened the torrent and ura! there were seeders, there were leechers & there was a down speed!Tried 3 other torrents now – all appear to work now, I got 450+ kibs  To be honest I understand the problem as little as before but I'm not complaining any more  thanks for all your time (without your help I would've quit a long time ago...)
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