transmission doesn't load torrent, ktorrent does

[Vojtěch Látal]

Binary package hint: transmission

I wanted to download following torrent http://www.mininova.org/get/342032 using transmission:

$ wget -O /tmp/ucastnici.torrent http://www.mininova.org/get/342032
$ transmission-remote 10.1.0.100 -a /tmp/ucastnici.torrent
10.1.0.100:9091 responded: "invalid or corrupt torrent file"

When I opened this downloaded file in Ktorrent, there was no problem. Downloading in Ktorrent began.

Is that torrent file seriously corrupted, or is there some mistake while checking torrent file for corruption?

This happens with the same version on my home server which is using unspecified linux distro.

$ apt-cache policy transmission
transmission:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.33-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1.33-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.sh.cvut.cz intrepid/universe Packages

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this because the website you linked to is off-line.

Could you please try to add this torrent file to transmission after launching it from the terminal. To do this, go to Applications ->Accessories -> Terminal and then type "transmission" (and press Enter).

Once it is running, please try to load the torrent file again and then post any error messages which are output to the terminal. Could you also attach your ~/.xsession-errors file please.

Thanks

[Vojtěch Látal (vojtik)]

In Transmission's Message Log are two red lines related to this torrent file:
Invalid metadata entry "announce-list"
Invalid metadata entry "announce"

So that torrent file is in some way corrupted... but could it be possible to handle it like Ktorrent does?

No messages (neither error messages) in terminal. There is no debug option for transmission binary.

In ~/.xsession-errors are no error messages related to transmission.

Thanks for your time;-)

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

It appears that the torrent in question has a space at the end of its announce URL, which is causing it to fail Transmission's URL parser test.

This is an error with the torrent, not Transmission, but it still would probably be best for Transmission to strip leading and trailing whitespace from the announce URLs to handle this more gracefully. This is fixed now in http://trac.transmissionbt.com/changeset/6717

[Vojtěch Látal (vojtik)]

Thanks for your work, Charles!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package transmission - 1.40-0ubuntu1

---------------
transmission (1.40-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #302672)
    - Tracker communication uses fewer resources
    - More accurate bandwidth limits
    - Reduce disk fragmentation by preallocating files (LP: #287726)
    - Stability, security and performance improvements to the RPC /
      Web UI server (closes LP: #290423)
    - Support compression when serving Web UI and RPC responses
    - Simplify the RPC whitelist
    - Fix bug that prevented handshakes with encrypted BitComet peers
    - Fix 1.3x bug that could re-download some data unnecessarily
      (LP: #295040)
    - Option to automatically update the blocklist weekly
    - Added off-hour bandwidth scheduling
    - Simplify file/priority selection in the details dialog
    - Fix a couple of crashes
    - New / updated translations
    - Don't inhibit hibernation by default (LP: #292929)
    - Use "close" animation when sending to notification area (LP: #130811)
    - Fix resize problems (LP: #269872)
    - Support "--version" option when launching from command line
      (LP: #292011)
    - Correctly parse announce URLs that have leading or trailing
      spaces (LP: #262411)
    - Display an error when "Open Torrent" fails (LP: #281463)
  * Dropped 10_fix_crasher_from_upstream.dpatch: Fix is in this
    upstream release.
  * debian/control: Don't just build-depend on libcurl-dev, which is
    a virtual package.

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:33:48 +0000

[Vojtěch Látal (vojtik)]

Thanks for your help guys.