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Hi!
This is so many times I try to download so many LibreOffice releases by
torrent to test,
and the torrent client always crashing after a certain amount of time.
64bits Windows/Debian OS... Transmission/Deluge client... Transmission
daemon (+web interface) on a RaspberryPi...
Both are crashed before the end !
All those torrent clients are always working fine with others torrent files.
And now it's crashed one more tiem with current release 4.2.3
I really don't know how it's possible!
Hi, can you provide more information about the client crashing please?
I normally download the latest LO RPM & windows torrents using transmission. I use a Pi with the client running via ssh from my main PC. I sometimes get lockups but that is the Pi rather than a specific torrent.
Cheers
Deluge client on Windows 7 64 sp1 :
- starting the crash time by a cpu core 100%... when I click on the Deluge
window, Windows ask to close the crashed app... nothing more to do.
- RPi with Transmission daemon : from another LAN computer, you can be sure
Transmission is crashing by webinterface not responding, no way to connect
to. If you ssh on the RPi, it's very very long to connect, if you can
connect... generally I reboot it by unplug/plug the power cable, and quickly
delete the LibreOffice torrent !
It usually crash near 99% of the complete download. Sometimes 60%,
randomly... no rule here.
On Windows as the RPi, no logs are written; so no way to investigate 
Only LibreOffice I've tried is crashing both clients I have on my LAN
(behind a wrt54gl router, last Tomato by Shibby firmware). Other files are
ok and download is 100% complete, sharing is ok too.
Thx for help.
(or is it possible to have a pb with tracker communication... I don't know
why...)
Hi,
although I don't have any solutions, here are a few Pi related thoughts which might help.
Where do you download to? Originally I used a powered USB drive to a hub connected to the Pi. I found that rapid transfer from ethernet to Pi to USB drive posed problems and locked up the Pi. This is not the same as your problem but I now download to the SD card. There is a setting in transmission which allows you to download to SD card and then copy the finished file to another drive. This might be worth a try if you are not currently doing this. It cuts out a few "hops" in the initial transfer process.
As the download seems to be pretty well progressed when it crashes maybe there is a general mismatch between what has been transferred and what is actually at the download location? As the download is pretty swift how about pausing a couple of times? Say after 35% and 70% - let the storage catch up with what has been downloaded?
Neither of these actually solve your problem but may ease the pain. At some point it is worth raising a bug report to see whether any of the devs can shed some light on this.
Let us know how you go
Cheers
Hi 
On the Pi it might be possible to use a command-line to open the torrenting
client. This is likely to give you more feedback after the torrrenting
crashes. (Unless the whole Pi is crashing but that's unlikely.)
Also has anyone posted this to the devs mailing-list or tried their irc
channel or something to see if they have any ideas why it might be
happening? So far we seem to be assuming it's the Pi end but maybe
something about the packaging or something the devs might have more
understanding of?
I take it that the normal download works fine?
Regards from
Tom
Ok, tried 1 more time on Windows with Deluge 1.3.6 client only...
It's crashing when antivirus is active, only at the end of file !
Tried on a Debian with no antivirus, and it's ok to complete download.
I've to try with Clamav in future...
So I think it's an antivirus issue 'cause of .msi
All others torrent files I've tested are .iso or .tar.gz or .7z, and no
problem.
Hi
Any chance of letting us know which antivirus is giving the false-positive?
Any chance of you, or someone, letting them know they seem to have a false
positive?
There are other antiviruses for Windows. AVG is supposed to be one of the
best free ones and even beats quite a lot of the non-free ones too
apparently. I'm always a bit wary of studies done into this sort of thing
because it's often less than clear who commissioned it and what they hope
to show.
There don't seem to be many that run on Gnu&Linux! Some of those that do
seem to be fairly old or not so well supported or even made really
difficult to get hold of. Some of the allegedly best ones even stopped
being produced at all.
The main purpose of anti-virus in Gnu&Linux seems to be to scan files sent
from Windows systems before sending them back to other people using
Windows, or to scan Windows partitions in dual-boots or scan Windows
machines over a network.
It's a shame because one of the first jobs of a decent bit of malware is to
knock out the antivirus running on the system. So having an antivirus
running on a completely different system would be much more robust. Of
course Windows needs something very pro-active too but it would be nice to
be able to do 1/month scans from an uncompromised system, same with all the
little tools for removing various specific bits of malware.
Really odd that no-one thought of an antivirus creating this problem on
Windows!
Regards from
Tom
Hey,
About antivirus... no false-positive, no message from antivirus...
My only test was to disable the antivirus during the torrent download, and
it has been 100% downloaded without active antivirus.
May be a lucky moment... :s
Antivirus used is free Avira Antivir. I think this one is scanning .msi on
default set up.
Hey,
About antivirus... no false-positive, no message from antivirus...
My only test was to disable the antivirus during the torrent download, and
it has been 100% downloaded without active antivirus.
May be a lucky moment... :s
Antivirus used is free Avira Antivir. I think this one is scanning .msi on
default set up.
Hi
msi is a good one for an antivirus to scan for but crashing it's download
doesn't sound right. Avira need to fix something there!
Thanks for checking all this so thoroughly and giving feedback!
I hope you have a happy easter! errr, and to all the rest of the list too
of course 
Regards from
Tom