[nflug] bittorrent setup

[Stephen Burke]

azureus was working here for a while in ubuntu, but was never really
stable. Would just die for no apparent reason that I could see. For a
while I used "rm -rf ~/.azureus/logs/" (which I found on some random bt
forum, I think), and that would at least get it running again and not
disappear right after it started, but lately it's just too much hassle
and dies every time I try to see the details tab, and the details were
why I switched to it from ktorrent to begin with, so I'm using ktorrent
(though it doesn't give all the juicy details that azureus does, it works).

You could try that rm command, or just rm -rf ~/.azureus and start the
whole configuration game over the next time you start it, but then you
lose all your torrents. On occasion, deleting the error log files in
.azureus got it to start again when just deleting the logs folder didn't
work,  but I'm probably a bad geek for doing that before mastering the
code therein, and shouldn't really be admitting to that now.


Oh, well.
Just my 2 cents.
I'm off to see if deluge works any better. ;-)
S.

Cyber Source wrote:
> and Dapper
> 
> matt donovan wrote:
>> azureus in *ubuntu is terribly broken they broke it so bad.
>>
>> On Nov 16, 2007 9:51 PM, Franklin Kumro Jr <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> I don't know what firewall is installed by default, I always had to
>>> install mine in Ubuntu ( I used firestarter, great GUI interface). Do
>>> you have your router configured to forward ports? If not your going to
>>> have to access its administration panel (website) and that depends on
>>> what kind you have.
>>>
>>> Open what ever firewall you have installed, and allow ports 6881-6889.
>>> If you don't see a firewall then install firestarter (sudo apt-get
>>> install firestarter) and then you can go to the policy tab, add
>>> policy, and select bittorrent.
>>>
>>> Now to the Azureus issue, I never used it do to it being a slow pig. I
>>> can only help you when it comes to deluge (http://deluge-torrent.org)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 16, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Joe wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Reply inline:
>>>>
>>>> Franklin Kumro Jr wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Usually you only need a tracker if your creating your own torrent to
>>>>> distribute. When I download I don't need any sort of tracker (the
>>>>> torrent responds to the tracker but I'm not hosting it). For another
>>>>> program try deluge and make sure to enable encryption.
>>>>>         
>>>> Azureus started working, but now crashes as soon as soon as I run it
>>>> and
>>>> it displays a splash screen and the next screen comes up.
>>>>
>>>> bigbird at sananda:~/pq$ azureus
>>>> changeLocale: *Default Language* != English (United States). Searching
>>>> without country..
>>>> changeLocale: Searching for language English in *any* country..
>>>> changeLocale: no message properties for Locale 'English (United
>>>> States)'
>>>> (en_US), using 'English (default)'
>>>> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>>>> Major opcode: 145
>>>> Minor opcode: 3
>>>> Resource id: 0x0
>>>> Failed to open device
>>>> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
>>>> Major opcode: 145
>>>> Minor opcode: 3
>>>> Resource id: 0x0
>>>> Failed to open device
>>>> #
>>>> # An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
>>>> #
>>>> # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb3d57172, pid=12530, tid=3084282768
>>>> #
>>>> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.6.0-b105 mixed mode, sharing)
>>>> # Problematic frame:
>>>> # C [libglibjni-0.4.so+0x9172]
>>>> #
>>>> # An error report file with more information is saved as
>>>> hs_err_pid12530.log
>>>> #
>>>> # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
>>>> # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
>>>> #
>>>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>>>
>>>> The log has a ton of stuff in it starting with a bunch of messages
>>>> about
>>>> "Thread blocked"
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> The ports you need open are defined by the program, just open your
>>>>> firewall for those ports, redirect ports on the router. After your
>>>>> download completes put the firewall up and block any incoming
>>>>> connections since your not sharing it anymore (unless you want to
>>>>> seed).
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> I have no idea how to do that. I have whatever firewall is built into
>>>> kubuntu. It works great, but I didn't put it there or configure it.
>>>> Any
>>>> help?
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>      
>>>>> -Frank
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 16, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Joe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>> I'm trying to use a torrent for the first time. I am currently
>>>>>> doing a
>>>>>> download using azureus (kubuntu feisty). I also tried ktorrent. Both
>>>>>> applications want me to set up a "tracker", but neither will tell me
>>>>>> exactly what it is or how to set it up. I think it's a utility to
>>>>>> help
>>>>>> share my download with others.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Howto?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, even though azureus seems to be working, it complained about a
>>>>>> port being closed (probably for sharing the downloaded file). How
>>>>>> do I
>>>>>> set that up?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joe
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