Comments on: WDTV Optware tips #3 – bittorrent with rtorrent

By: Maxycatz

Maxycatz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:31:37 +0000

Many thanks for your tutorial and for getting this going on the WDTV; you’re a star.
Set it all up yesterday and very impressed by first 4gb download.
Trying to add another torrent today and rtorrent dies with:
Caught Bus error, dumping stack:0/ 0.0 KB] [Port: 51777] [U 0/11] [D 0/0] [H 0
Stack dump not enabled.
A bus error probably means you ran out of diskspace.
[screen is terminating]

rtorrent.conf is the same; there’s plenty of space (50 odd gb on drive) and not change to the attached drives.

Any solutions?

Many thanks,

Maxy

<<< edit: not sure, forums would be a better place to ask. –b-rad >>>

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:16:46 +0000

Solution to previous post: I had to change the location of the data folder through both modifying rtorrent.conf and re-running the install page of wtorrent. My previous location was on /mnt, and version 0.5.7.1 changed that mount point.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:07:43 +0000

After updating WDLXTV to version 0.5.7.1, rtorrent no longer recognizes my ext3 partition as writeable (although samba does). I tried pointing it to the location in /tmp/media and in /tmp/mnt. None worked.

By: Sagar

Sagar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:58:31 +0000

Related to my earlier post :
I replaced optware bin with the original one & did all the steps again & did not see the error this time.

By: Sagar

Sagar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:35:54 +0000

I installed rtorrent as per the instructions here. But when I try to execute it, get the following error. Do I need to set TERM ?

# rtorrent
Error opening terminal: linux.

I’m using WDLXTV 0.5.6.1

<<< edit: weird, dunno what to say. –b-rad >>>

By: Methos

Methos — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:53:33 +0000

I tried WDLXTVonly for torrent downloading.
And, as mentioned upper, rtorrent always killed by kernel because of out of memory about half an our after being started.
Even when only one torrent is trying to download.
I’ve limited peers too.
When i restart, the file is in checking hash for hours, download a bit, and crash again (about 30mn).
Googling for days didn’t give me a solution.
Most think it’s because there’s no swap.

Is it possible to mount a .bin (like optware) as a swap partition ?

<<< edit: go to wdtvforum.com and look for the rtorrent/wtorrent thread, people there have it running successfully. –b-rad >>>

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:34:19 +0000

Thanks for the very good firmware…
I was thinking, that would it be possible to make the firmware look for the thumbnail pictures from the MKV-container? I mean that you wouldnt have to have .jpg by itself.

<<< edit: Cheers. It is possible, but not something I’d do without motivation as I don’t think I have a single mkv with an internal thumb. –b-rad >>>

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:07:40 +0000

Still on the same topic – I cross-compiled, with embarrassing difficulty, a ridiculously bloated binary with the patch (this one was not dependent on the boost library, as the one linked above is). The binary managed to run long enough to show me that the patch is outdated, and doesn’t parse correctly the current nipfilter.dat file format bluetack uses.

On the other hand, it is unbelievably probable I did something wrong.

<<< edit: I’d suggest trying the iptables route. iptables isn’t all that hard to configure and motables should (i say this without checking) do the work for you. –b-rad >>>

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:49:29 +0000

Continuing from my previous post – will it be possible to apply the patch from http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/attachment/ticket/239/ip_filter_0.8.4_fixed.diff.gz to the 0.8.4 version of rtorrent and compile a binary? I tried for a day to cross-compile, but I have no idea how to do that.

With that patch, you can use the nipfilter.dat from bluetack.co.uk, and add a line in the config file:
ip_filter=/path/to/nipfilter.dat
and rtorrent gains an ipfilter.

By: Tor

Tor — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:59:18 +0000

Hi,
When i get to: “The session directory doesn’t exist, so I create it. Now it should work.” and i write “screen rtorrent -n -o import=/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf” it just says ”
# screen rtorrent -n -o import=/opt/etc/rtorrent.conf
/var/run/utmp: No such file or directory
*** rTorrent 0.8.2/0.12.5 – wdtv:2619 ***

I have tried to find “/var/run…” in rtorrent.conf but it is’t there, could you please help me?

<<< edit: I don’t think that error adversely affects operation…if so: mkdir -p /var/run/utmp –b-rad >>>