TheSHAD0W wrote:
A few major trackers went down recently and had to be changed; redownloading the torrent file may help. Black light indicates the client can't contact the tracker, but can't discriminate between its being the tracker's fault or a problem on the client's end.
I found a test case scenario where the "black" light really should be red and the tracker works fine.
Using: BitTornado 0.1.3 in Linux on a system with Python 2.3 and wxPython 2.4.1.2 where the tracker and client are on the same machine with an IP of 192.168.0.100.
1. Setup a tracker using
Code:
bttrack.py --port 6969 --dfile dstate.dat --allowed_dir $HOME/torrents --allow_get 1
2. Create a garbage file using:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=garbage.txt bs=1M count=50
but if you don't feel like creating a garbage file using "dd" you could use any old non-important file and make a copy of that.
3. Make the torrent file using:
Code:
btmakemetafile.py http://192.168.0.100:6969/announce garbage.txt
and a "garbage.txt.torrent" is made.
4. Copy that torrent into $HOME/torrents or whatever the allowed dir is set to on the tracker.
4. Open that torrent using:
Code:
btdownloadgui.py garbage.txt.torrent
then save it in any folder where there is no "garbage.txt" file such as maybe /tmp.
The client will connect to the tracker and it even shows in the logs of the tracker that it connected fine.
http://192.168.0.100:6969/ shows that there is 1 person "downloading" a torrent but the client stays black when it really should be red indicating there are no peers.
My guess on this is the problem lies in btdownloadgui.py near line 1,396 where:
Code:
elif statistics.numPeers + statistics.numSeeds + statistics.numOldSeeds == 0:
if statistics.last_failed:
self.setStatusIcon('disconnected')
else:
self.setStatusIcon('noconnections')
is. It never gets to the part where it sets the status icon to be red because "statistics.last_failed" never seems to be false and always fails when there are no peers leaving the black icon set.
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