Why are my torrents not downloading?

Question

I am using transmission-daemon and controlling it through the webgui.

Currently I have two torrents from separate trackers that are on 0B of OB status. I am using transmission. On one torrent at last announce it says "got 50 peers" the other "got 48 peers."

port 51413 is listed as open

I have changed the ownership of the download folder to debian-transmission

Any ideas? I'm fresh out of troubleshooting steps.

Solution 1

In my case, it was also helpful to change the setting of the random port picking option to true. In transmission, you do it by following these instructions:

Edit → Preferences → Network Tab → Tick the first box

Solution 2

I had the problem. The cause was the client being unauthorized.

To solve the issue, I changed the settings:

1. Stop daemon: sudo service transmission-daemon stop
2. Edit the settings: sudo vim /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json (replace vim with your favourite text editor)
3. Unrequire authentication: "rpc-authentication-required": false
4. Whitelist localhost: "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1"
5. Restart daemon: sudo service transmission-daemon start

And now it works. If you suffered from this issue, it's possible that download-dir changed as well. so I suggest you check that option too and change it to your desire:

"download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/Downloads"

Solution 3

I switched to port 57558 and it now functions. I'm not sure if this is a long-term solution, but in any case shows that this is network issue and not something related to transmission. Thanks everyone for their help.

Solution 4

I was facing the same issue. Changed the peer-port-random-on-start to true as suggested. Still was unable to download. Checked on some of the other forums & found a tool called "deluge". Installed it on my Ubuntu 16.10 machine & the downloads are working fine now. Wonder what was the issue with transmission.

Below is the link to install deluge on Ubuntu 16.10 :

https://www.linuxbabe.com/bittorrent/deluge-bittorrent-client-ubuntu-16-04

Solution 5

I've changed the setting peer-port-random-on-start from false to true. That did the trick for me(transmission-daemon).

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Comments

[web.learner]

How many seeds does it say you have?

[atdonsm]

@Seth 142 and 47 seeders

[atdonsm]

Perhaps my isp is blocking 51413? I understand that this is common port for torrenting?

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

That is a very good possibility. Or perhaps you're in a NATed network where something else is using the external port, making you unreachable to the outside world? Many possibilities.

[rohith]

how did you do that can you explain ?

[Fabby]

Deluge is in the standard repositories with only a point release difference...

[user3751385]

$ sudo vim /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

[user3751385]

Oddly, this worked. And I had opened up the port with iptables and tested with nmap

[Valentyn Hruzytskyi]

Most useful for me. Thanks

[Nicholas Saunders]

if the port is closed when you test it as above, just have transmission select a random port and exit from transmission. When you next run transmission it will probably just work.