Why does Transmission BitTorrent client say "could not connect to tracker"?

Question

I recently cannot download anything via transmission and the download process remains idle("downloading from 0 of 0 connected peers"). Going through properties> trackers, I see "could not connect to tracker" or "tracker gave HTTP respond 404" messages in red.

I also use a VPN connection and I didn't have this problem on 11.04.

Is there a way to get rid of this issue?

Solution 1

I installed "Vuze" and all the torrents downloaded. It had something to do with connecting to peers.

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Solution 2

Click on torrent (in bitcomet), and choose updade tracker. This solved my problem.

Solution 3

I think you might have a broken torrent file. Delete any active torrents and re-download them. See if the problem persists.

Comments

[rovshango]

Maybe you can firewall problem?!

[Admin]

pardon? could you explain more?

[Admin]

Yes, as I explained it doesn't start and remains idle.

[Jason Southwell]

As it stands, this answer is not very useful. If you can add some detail, that would be much appreciated. I'm going to flag it as "Not an answer" for now.

[sunny]

I deleted all torrents and tested 3 torrent movies but the problem is still there!

[William]

Did you try reinstalling from the Ubuntu Software Center?

[sunny]

not really, should i?

[William]

I would at least try it. Or download a diffrent bittorrrent application.

[martinkunev]

or for the command-line interface transmission-remote, use the option --reannounce