Questions on the use of Transmission

[Kajun]

Recently I had a couple of torrents running in Transmission which were stuck at 95-98%. Turned out that it kept redownloading pieces from users, with an error "piece of hash failed". Is there any way to (auto)ban these users? I didn't find any option in the config.

As a result, I tried to suspend/restart the torrents, but they would not restart. I figured that, since I my torrents were suspended anyways, I'd try and update my transmission to version 0.81 (had 0.74 i think). That was a mistake probably, since my active-torrents.txt got deleted. As a result, it won't recognize my working torrents -- it sees the progress at 0.00%, when it was at 95-98%! Is there any way I can salvage my downloads, or do i have to restart from scratch?

What contents does "active-torrents.txt" exactly have?

edit:ugh, getting generic i/o errors with transmission now

[oleo]

The contents is simply list of all active torrents. Each one in its own line.

Upgrade to 0.8x requires freshly start of torrents. There is nothing much to do when you receive failed hash. Sometimes failed hash occurs on many peers. It help if you invite someone with complete torrent to join seeding.

There is .transmission/cache directory where you could erase cache file(s).

[pato]

Hi!

I got Generic I/O error as soon as one of downloaded files reaches 2GB. My transmission version is 0.82. This is the message from log file:

Sep 12 20:20:37 transmissiond[863]: Fatal error, stopping download (-2147483584)

The file system is:
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 on /opt type ext3 (rw)

Where can be the problem?

Patrik

[oleo]

You shoud fsck your disk. This can even be done on router with unmounted partition:

killall stupid-ftpd
killall smbd
killall nmbd
umount /dev/disk/...
e2fsck -f -y /dev/disk/...

[pato]

You shoud fsck your disk. This can even be done on router with unmounted partition:

killall stupid-ftpd
killall smbd
killall nmbd
umount /dev/disk/...
e2fsck -f -y /dev/disk/...

The same error

[admin@myasus /]$ e2fsck -f -y /dev/discs/disc0/part2
e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/discs/disc0/part2: 9620/6111232 files (8.5% non-contiguous), 3889836/12209400 blocks

Sep 13 17:45:38 transmissiond[988]: Transmission daemon 0.82 (r) started - http://transmission.m0k.org/
Sep 13 17:45:51 transmissiond[988]: Starting torrent /opt/torrent/work/[BHD]...torrent
Sep 13 20:49:35 transmissiond[988]: Fatal error, stopping download (-2147483584)

[oleo]

Here is the code of your problem. You should check torrent. It is possible that the problem is only with this torrent. Otherwise file a ticket at http://transmission.m0k.org/trac/ explaining the problem.

            /* receive/send messages */
            tr_torrentWriterLock( tor );
            for( i=0; i<tor->peerCount; ) {
                tr_peer_t * peer = tor->peers[i];
                int ret = tr_peerPulse( peer );
                if( ret & TR_ERROR_IO_MASK ) {
                    tr_err( "Fatal error, stopping download (%d)", ret );
                    tor->runStatus = TR_RUN_STOPPING;
                    tor->error = ret;
                    strlcpy( tor->errorString,
                             tr_errorString(ret),
                             sizeof(tor->errorString) );
                    break;
                }
                if( ret ) {
                    tr_peerDestroy( peer );
                    tor->peerCount--;
                    memmove( &tor->peers[i], &tor->peers[i+1],
                             (tor->peerCount-i)*sizeof(void*) );
                    continue;
                }
                i++;
            }
            tr_torrentWriterUnlock( tor ); 

[mitraku]

i seem to be getting the same error when a torrent bigger than 2 gb reaches to 2 gb
Error: Generic I/O error Start: 02 Oct 19:20 uploaded: 2.8 MB
Oct 3 13:20:21 transmissiond[240]: Fatal error, stopping download (-2147483584)

i also use ext3
[admin@(none) etc]$ mount
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
ramfs on /tmp type ramfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 on /opt type ext3 (rw)
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 on /tmp/harddisk type ext3 (rw,noatime)


and this is the partition where i download the file
/dev/discs/disc0/part3
228G 3.3G 214G 2% /tmp/harddisk

[oleo]

I suggest that you post me torrent file in question to verify for myself the issue.

[mitraku]

it gives this error with any torrent that contains a file bigger than 2 gb.
downloading big torrents that contain smaller files is working normally.
i attached a torrent that gives this error...

[mitraku]

i installed everything again and it seems that it gives the same error

[oleo]

I've also reproduced your error. Now I am testing past version 0.80-svn (1981) on FreeBSD and that it seems to work. Then I will repeat the same test with 0.82 to see if this is mipsel problem or not.

[mitraku]

Ok. Let`s hope that this problem can be fixed easily.

[Michiel]

I am joining the topic.. I have the same errors.

Oleo I hope you can help us out!

[oleo]

I am planning to do this over weekend. Right now I see that on FreeBSD works. There is a little confusion with latest release not to have transmission-cli but transmisssioncli ? Probably I will go to head and start debugging there.

[mitraku]

Any update on the problem?