Hello everyone, I’ve been working on setting up a torrent/media server on an old PC. Everything works near perfectly. However, I’m encountering an issue where qBittorrent gets stuck at 0% progress and just says ‘Downloading Metadata’.

I’ve tried various solutions, including disabling the VPN, and even attempting to download it on my Windows 11 PC (both with and without a VPN). I’ve tried disabling my Windows 11 firewall and even tried Deluge. Unfortunately, none of these solutions have resolved the problem. I’m struggling to pinpoint the root cause. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve tried a few different torrents that Prowlarr has fetched, but the one I’ve been trying without a VPN is the one from ipleak.net.

EDIT:

Was able to figure out a solution. Not sure why but switching from Wireguard to OpenVPN seems to have fixed the issue…

  • nutbutter
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    1 year ago

    Copy the magnet to your phone’s torrent client and see if it starts downloading. If not, then probably no one is seeding that torrent.

    Are you able to download other torrents on the same PC/server?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah same guess here.

      Navigate to the dir you’re downloading to and give it a little ls -l

      If you don’t see

      rwxr-xr-x

      Most importantly that final x… you’re gonna want to

      sudo chmod 755 /path/to/your/directory

      Assuming this is a private network.

      Then try again.

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          1 year ago

          Then be more careful what you’re giving permissions to. Make a user group, and give that group privileges or something.

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        1 year ago

        Thankyou, I tried it however it didn’t work. But I did find the solution. I’m not sure why but changing from Wireguard to OpenVPN worked.

  • pory@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Check that your client is whitelisted by the tracker. Some trackers wait to approve the newest versions of qBittorrent.

  • bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I always test with Ubuntu torrents as the are probably the fastest seeded torrents around to check connection and speeds