Hi!

I just upgraded my Kubuntu installation from Raring (13.04) to Saucy (13.10) (Linux 3.11.0-12, KDE 4.11.2) and KTorrent (v.4.3.1) can't see the mounted hard disk partitions.
I'm getting the message: "One or more storage volumes are not mounted. In order to start this torrent, they need to be mounted".
with the options "Retry " and Cancel".
Retry doesn't do something (returns me, at this question box).

I had this bug rarely in Raring and rebooting was solving this problem, but now is persistent.

I'm mounting the external partitions, just clicking on them (on Dolphin).
They're visible and with full read-write access for me.
I can't see any problems with other programs.

Is it bug?
If so, should it be reported?
TIA!
Giorgos.

Can you verify that the path for download data storage for each of the problematic torrents in question leads to a location which exists on your computer?

Changes in UDisks2 mean that certain media are now mounted in a different location - which would have broken any paths stored in configuration files such as KTorrent's.

Indeed my partition changed from /media/DOCS/ to /media/giorgos/DOCS/.
However both locations are at the specific partition that is already mounted (and not recognized by KTorrent).

Hmm - does KTorrent run under the same user you use to run Dolphin?
Also, if you start KTorrent from a terminal, is any relevant output given when you attempt to start the torrent which may indicate why it believes the volume is not mounted?

Finally - do new torrents behave correctly, even when you try to save them to the mounted volumes?

bcooksley wrote:Hmm - does KTorrent run under the same user you use to run Dolphin?

Yes. I'm the only user of this PC.

bcooksley wrote:Also, if you start KTorrent from a terminal, is any relevant output given when you attempt to start the torrent which may indicate why it believes the volume is not mounted?

No.
Launching from terminal, just running ktorrent and returns to the next line.

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Δευ Οκτ 21 . 02:19 μμ ~>ktorrent
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Δευ Οκτ 21 . 02:20 μμ ~>

At this point, ktorrent is up and running and no further konsole messages.

bcooksley wrote:Finally - do new torrents behave correctly, even when you try to save them to the mounted volumes?

It creates at home, a subdirectory named DOCS and saves them there.

Please try launching KTorrent as follows in Konsole:

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ktorrent --nofork

Just to confirm - the torrents you add now, even if you move the data directory to the mounted volumes - do work correctly?

Normal torrents are OK with this switch, while the ones that has only magnet download, downloading at ~/.kde/share/apps/kio_magnet/.

Okay - so only already existing torrents complain with the mounted volumes error?

Correct.
With the addition of magnet links (who can't be saved at external partition).

Okay. If you search below ~/.kde4/share/apps/ktorrent and in ~/.kde4/share/config/ktorrentrc do you find references to both the new and old torrents?
If so, can you compare their entries to see if anything about them is different?

I can't see any reference to old downloads at log file. It only has references to 24/10/13.
The magnets file has only one word: "le".

ktorrentrc is rather big with many hex values, but seems to be ok to me.
The only unusual thing, is the tempdir value.
tempDir=file:///home/giorgos/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/

I don't know what temporary data writes there!
If the temporary data, including incomplete torrents, this is wrong.
Otherwise is perfectly normal.

Okay, i'm afraid I'm out of ideas then - KTorrent must store the information concerning where each torrent is stored somewhere, but if nothing suspicious is in the old location all you can do is re-add the faulty torrents, and figure out how to convince KTorrent to use the existing data (just making it available should be enough - especially if the files are complete)

THANKS!!!
I'll try it.