I am just getting back my sea legs, but apparently they’re pretty shaky because I can’t get my ubuntu torrent (no seriously, it is) to download. It never starts downloading and is stuck in “stalled”. I’ve tried a number of things, but even with default settings it isn’t starting. I’m using proton VPN on Linux Mint, but even with the VPN disabled it doesn’t work.

last time I torrented was probably 15 years ago.

EDIT: i managed to get it working. As expected it was a Qbit config issue. First issue was a port forwarding issue. second one was the interface i connected it to. Apparently the interface named something with “vpn” is not the correct one to bind Qbit to, its a dummy created by the VPN that doesn’t work. I had to select one named “tun0”. If i just selected the regular physical interface I had IP leaks with the VPN enabled.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I frequently end up with magnet links stuck at “downloading metadata”. If I convert the magnet link to a torrent, it works fine. It is a real annoyance about the otherwise great qbittorrent.

  • retrieval4558@mander.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I had a similar problem recently on windows. Qbittorrent (version 4.5.3 ish? Don’t quote me) bound to paid proton VPN. Torrents would be added automatically by sonarr, but remain “stalled” until I restarted qbittorrent with administrator permissions. It would work for a day before it stalled out again and I had to manually restart it. Happened for months. Never figured out why.

  • nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Try torrenting on another device (like your phone) to see if the issue is your network. Also try a non qbittorent client

    • BurnerPhone867@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Whats a different client for Windows 11? I use Qbit as well, and am thinking I need to jump to something else

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Are you able to contact any trackers? Do any seeds and peers show as available? Annoying stuff like this is why I moved away from torrents long ago and switched to usenet.

  • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    How many seeds are supposed to be around? You should try a ‘real’ torrent with the VPN…

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Does the user running qbittorrent have write access to the downloads directory? Any special messages in the logs?

    You might also want to try running qbittorrent through docker. I use https://github.com/DyonR/docker-qbittorrentvpn. Just make sure that you set the PUID and PGUID to match a user id + group id that has r/w access to your downloads directory.