Ktorrent goes crazy on the hd after reboot with no internet connection

[Frostybeard]

Binary package hint: ktorrent

In Kubuntu Intrepid, I had been using Ktorrent to download something, which had completed.

The computer is being used to do video surveillance with "motion". I went to look at it, and the
hard drive was going crazy. I could not get into KDE. With CTRL ALT + F (something) I got into a terminal finally
after much struggle. I logged in and started "top". Ktorrent was up near the top of the list. The computer was not
in the internet. (I use WLAN, and I have to manually start it each time to get into the internet)
I killed Ktorrent, and the crazy churning of the hard drive stopped immediately.

I had also just installed Guarddog as well, the previous day, for when I am in the internet. "motion" uses some IP ports that I don't want to be open to the internet like 8080 and 8081.

So it seems that Ktorrent, after previously being used for peer to peer downloading/seeding, may go crazy after a firewall is installed and/or the computer is not in the internet. I fear it could have physically broken my system if I had left it like that for a longer period.

ktorrent -v gives me
Qt 4.4.3
KDE 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1.4)
ktorrent 3.1.2

[Cruncher (ubuntu-wkresse)]

How much RAM is installed on the machine? What other proceses were running? Please post the output of the command "free" to show memory and swap usage.

[Frostybeard (william-smith-frostybeard)]

Hi,

This system has 2 gigs installed. I don't think I was anywhere close to
running out of memory. The going crazy seemed to be due to either that
I had no network connection, or that I had just installed the firewall.
Ktorrent had been previously seeding.

William

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:47:15 -0000, Cruncher wrote
> How much RAM is installed on the machine? What other proceses were
> running? Please post the output of the command "free" to show memory
> and swap usage.
>
> --
> Ktorrent goes crazy on the hd after reboot with no internet
> connection https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363670 You received this
> bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug.
>
> Status in [UTF-8?]“ktorrent” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ktorrent
>
> In Kubuntu Intrepid, I had been using Ktorrent to download something,
> which had completed.
>
> The computer is being used to do video surveillance with "motion". I
> went to look at it, and the hard drive was going crazy. I could not
> get into KDE. With CTRL ALT + F (something) I got into a terminal finally
> after much struggle. I logged in and started "top". Ktorrent was up
> near the top of the list. The computer was not in the internet. (I
> use WLAN, and I have to manually start it each time to get into the
> internet) I killed Ktorrent, and the crazy churning of the hard
> drive stopped immediately.
>
> I had also just installed Guarddog as well, the previous day, for
> when I am in the internet. "motion" uses some IP ports that I don't
> want to be open to the internet like 8080 and 8081.
>
> So it seems that Ktorrent, after previously being used for peer to
> peer downloading/seeding, may go crazy after a firewall is installed
> and/or the computer is not in the internet. I fear it could have
> physically broken my system if I had left it like that for a longer period.
>
> ktorrent -v gives me
> Qt 4.4.3
> KDE 4.1.1 (KDE 4.1.4)
> ktorrent 3.1.2

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!