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.
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.
I had this issue before and changing my port settings resolved it.
I tried switching to another port, still with the VPN disabled, but that didnt work so i switched back to the port i was using before and then it worked 🤷♂️
It still stops working when i enable the VPN though
I think you are using the free version of proton vpn.
With proton vpn you have to pay to use BitTorrent or other p2p stuff. It’s how they fund the free tier.
It could also be your ISP blocking torrent traffic.
You could try using quad9 dns and enable DNS over HTTPS on your system and do DDL.
There is also ECH (very hard to get working) but is amazing at bypassing content blocks.
No I’m using the paid tier of proton, and already using quad9 DNS and have DNS over https enabled.
Could be just a bad torrent or bad config in qBitTorrent
In the bottom center of the Qbit app does the icon show as red, yellow, or green? This displays whether you are connectable or not. I’d bet it’s a port issue. If Proton offers port forwarding, find the port they assigned you and input it into the “incoming connections” port in the Qbit settings.
How many seeds are supposed to be around? You should try a ‘real’ torrent with the VPN…
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.
Try torrenting on another device (like your phone) to see if the issue is your network. Also try a non qbittorent client
Op:
but even with the VPN disabled it doesn’t work.
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Have you tried changing your vpn???
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.
Force resume it.
Yeah that was the very first thing I tried…
I was having issues with the same thing and ended up switching to Mulvad VPN. No issues anymore.
Make sure the version of your torrent client is on the tracker’s whitelist