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transmission package

transmission sometimes requires you to download a torrent multiple time before it will start

Bug #276400 reported by millmanster on 2008-09-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #204184: Transmission doesn't open torrents via Firefox 3. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	transmission (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

1) Ubuntu 8.04

2) Transmission 1.06 (5136)

3) When downloading a torrent it is supposed to start

4) It sometimes requires multiple download attempts before Transmission will start the torrent

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 29 18:12:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubuntustudio-audio 0.28
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: ubuntustudio-meta
Title: package ubuntustudio-audio 0.28 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-rt x86_64

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millmanster (millmanster) wrote on 2008-09-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (11.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (31.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-09-30:

How did you add the torrent to transmission?

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William Woelke (williamwoelke) wrote on 2008-09-30:

I had a similar problem. When I used the "Open With" option on the dialog bog, sometimes the torrent did not show up in the download list. I had to add the torrent through the add option in the transmission menu, locating the torrent in /tmp.

I am currently using Transmission version 1.34 (6778) and have not experienced that issue in some time. It would be my guess that it has already been fixed in current versions of transmission (I am running Intrepid Ibex x86).

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millmanster (millmanster) wrote on 2008-10-03:

Wouter Stomp wrote:- "How did you add the torrent to transmission?"

In Firefox's Open with dialog box transmission is already selected so I just click O.K. - after which the torrent is added to transmissions download list - but sometimes it isn't. It appears to be strangely intermittent.

Unlike William Woelke in his comment above I don't bother locating the torrent in /tmp but just keep trying till transmission gets it - usually no more than 4/5 attempts.