Problems with qBittorrent - Ports? USB stick?

Troubleshooting
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Creating a bug report/issue

Required Information

root@Snowflake:~# sudo cat /boot/dietpi/.version
G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=8
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=19
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1
G_GITBRANCH='master'
G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[0]='applied'
G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[1]='applied'

root@Snowflake:~# sudo echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN
bullseye 1

root@Snowflake:~# sudo uname -a
Linux Snowflake 6.1.21+ #1642 Mon Apr  3 17:19:14 BST 2023 armv6l GNU/Linux

root@Snowflake:~# sudo dpkg --print-architecture
armhf

root@Snowflake:~# sudo echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME
RPi B (armv6l)


DietPi v8.19.1 : 18:55 - Di 18.07.2023
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 - Device model : RPi B (armv6l)
 - CPU temp : 58 °C / 136 °F : Running warm, but safe
 - LAN IP : 192.168.179.3 (eth0)
 - MOTD : DietPi v8.19 has been released. Check out all changes:
          https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_19/

root@Snowflake:~# dietpi-services status qbittorrent

 DietPi-Services
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 Mode: status qbittorrent

[  OK  ] DietPi-Services | qbittorrent		active (running) since Tue 2023-07-18 18:52:51 CEST; 20min ago
root@Snowflake:~# 

root@Snowflake:~# lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
NAME FSTYPE LABEL  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT PARTUUID                             UUID
sda               14,6G  0 disk                                                 
└─sda1
                  14,6G  0 part            0012e150-01                          
sdb               57,6G  0 disk                                                 
└─sdb1
     xfs          57,6G  0 part /mnt/64GB  2c61c78e-01                          e8277209-48c2-48d7-8501-e7c075878614
mmcblk0
│                 14,7G  0 disk                                                 
├─mmcblk0p1
│    vfat          128M  0 part /boot      727cff46-01                          463B-CEC5
└─mmcblk0p2
     ext4         14,6G  0 part /          727cff46-02                          dcbd9214-f41c-4689-bd45-cfb04de2204c
  • SD card used | (EG: 16GB Transcend)

Additional Information (if applicable)

  • Software title
    Snowflake, qBittorrent

Steps to reproduce

Hello,

unfortunately my downloads/uploads do not start under qBittorennt. I have the same problem with Transmission.

DietPi: 16 GB SD card
Backup: 16GB USB stick
Torrent: 64 GB USB stick

At first I thought it was because of the guest network of the Fritzbox, meaning I can’t open ports for the Raspberry Pi. However, I have no problems with qBittorennt with my laptop and Linux Mint on the same guest network. Download and upload work without problems. So I thought ports would not be a problem.

I mounted my 64GB USB stick with XFS and MBR(also test GPR and ext4). Name of the stick 64GB. Is it possibly due to read/write permissions of the stick? Thanks

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yeah, probably a permission issue, the install script does:

G_EXEC usermod -g dietpi -aG debian-transmission debian-transmission

which means, the user debian-transmission (which executes transmission) is added to the group dietpi (and the group debian-transmission), while dietpi becomes the default group for the user,
This is necessary because (by default) transmissions saves to /mnt/dietpi_userdata/downloads, which is owned by dietpi:dietpi and has 775 permissions, so you need to belong to the group to write to it.

So let’s check the permissions of your download location:

ls -la /mnt/64GB/
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root@Snowflake:~# ls -la /mnt/64GB/

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   21 18. Jul 18:55 .
drw-r--r-- 10 root root 4096 18. Jul 17:58 ..
drw-r--r--  2 root root    6 18. Jul 18:55 Torrent

The “Torrent” folder is not mandatory.
Either simply the 64GB as root or just the folder mnt/64GB/Torrent

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all folder or owned by root user and there is no write permission for anyone else… Means root is the only one who is able to write to that folder.

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Hello thank you. Can I just take away root as user from the complete USB stick? Does this need to be formatted again extra for this? Or do I have to log in to DietPi with my user?

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usually, permissions can be set per file or folder. Can you try following

chmod 777 /mnt/64GB/Torrent
ls -la /mnt/64GB/
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root@Snowflake:~# chmod 777 /mnt/64GB/Torrent
root@Snowflake:~# ls -la /mnt/64GB/

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   21 18. Jul 18:55 .
drw-r--r-- 10 root root 4096 18. Jul 17:58 ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root    6 18. Jul 18:55 Torrent

Unfortunately still “Error”.
With the encryption under qBittorrent it probably has nothing to do?

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do you have an error message?

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I remember that I had already managed to get the 50GB at the bottom of “Free space”. In the meantime, there is also only unknown.

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can you try following

chmod +x /mnt/

and share again

ls -la /mnt/64GB/

how does it go now?

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root@Snowflake:~# chmod +x /mnt/
root@Snowflake:~# ls -la /mnt/64GB/
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drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   21 18. Jul 18:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 18. Jul 17:58 ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root    6 18. Jul 18:55 Torrent
root@Snowflake:~#

Thanks, looks good for now.

Does it make sense to apply this to 64GB/mnt/Torrent only?

Under /mnt/ runs also my 16GB USB stick for backups, correct?
So I ask because the OS SD card is also running a Tor-Snowflake.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Issue was with /mnt/ directory as due to whatever reason, the execute flag has been removed. This prevents all apps from writing to any of the sub directories. This is possible now.

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