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.
Force resume it.
Yeah that was the very first thing I tried…
Then it’s probably issue with your connection. Sometimes NAT also causes problems.
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.
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.
Op:
but even with the VPN disabled it doesn’t work.
Comments:
Have you tried changing your vpn???
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.
How many seeds are supposed to be around? You should try a ‘real’ torrent with the VPN…
Try torrenting on another device (like your phone) to see if the issue is your network. Also try a non qbittorent client
Whats a different client for Windows 11? I use Qbit as well, and am thinking I need to jump to something else
Make sure the version of your torrent client is on the tracker’s whitelist
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.
