qBittorrent config back to default after restart

Troubleshooting
1

Hi,

I am running diet pi as virtual machine with Vbox, and running qBittorrent and wireguard client on it.
I want to set the qBittorent connection only using my VPN.

I know that I can bind the interface in the config by editing file /home/qbittorrent/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf in diet-pi,
and add under preference
Connection\Interface=thenameofinterface

I turn off the qbit and then make change and then turn it on, it seems working, but as soon as I am restart the VM, the conf file, back to default.

I cannot change the preference from the web menu, since there is no advance menu, the only I can change it, from qBittorrent.conf, to make sure it will bind to the interface.

So, my questions is, how I can change the setting, without it back to default, when I am restarting the vm?
is there default qbittorrent config in diet-pi?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions and reply

2

Many thanks for your report.

Do other file changes survive the restart of the VM?

And does restarting the service reset the config file as well? systemctl restart qbittorrent

3

Hi, thank you for your reply, the problems is solved just now, I am so happy. I make a report with hope, if someone has the same problems, maybe my solutions will work for them too.

The solutions are kinda weird but here how I am do it.

  1. Turn off the qbit with dietpi-services
  2. I change the owner the files to root from qbittorrent, with command chown root qBittorrent.conf
  3. Edit the files and then save
  4. turn on qbit with dietpi-services
  5. check the conf, it didn’t change to default
  6. restart the VM
  7. it still didn’t change.
  8. make adjustment via qbit web, since I am only change the owner but not the group, so I think it should works. Turn out, it works and it can save the new configuration.
  9. I checked the conf file, the adjustment via web is saved and the connection interface didn’t change, it still there.
  10. I checked the owner with command ls -l, the owner back to qbittorrent with group dietpi.

I don’t know what happen, maybe it is a glitch or I was made a newbie mistake, since I am still learning, but I am so happy that it works, even though the solutions is kinda weird for me.

4

Ah the file was owned by root? Yes then the service + web UI had no write access to it. Was this a fresh install?

5

MichaIng
no, he changed it to root

  1. I change the owner the files to root from qbittorrent, with command chown root qBittorrent.conf
6

Ah “to root from qbittorrent” instead of “from root to qbittorrent”, okay.
Hmm, no idea how the owner can have an effect on the content being stored to disk or not :thinking:.