rtorrent with rutorrent frontend through optware

[ChrisTWL]

I've been trying to install rtorrent on the javelin through the optware repository. I prefer rtorrent to transmission as rtorrent will actually allow you to move around and rename files in a torrent.

Best I can tell rtorrent installed successfully. It seems functional going through the CLI, but that's a hassle for normal use. I installed another instance of lighttpd and have it running on a separate port so it doesn't interfere with the javelin's own instance of lighttpd. I have this setup working on my router, so I was able to copy all the config files. The problem I run into is when I try to use rutorrent as a web frontend. I get a nice seg fault from rtorrent every time I try to launch the web interface. I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions?

[ChrisTWL]

Here is a screen shot of the seg fault that I get.

segfault.jpg

[ruben00]

libtorrent.so is not playing nice with the kernel that the javelin is compiled with.
try running /promise/lib/ldconfig to see if it complains about a certain module, if the module exist in both opt folder and somewhere else in the javelin, delete/rename the copy from the opt folder, and run ldconfig again until it comes back clean, that should take care of your error.

[ChrisTWL]

I was able to clean things up so /promise/lib/ldconfig runs without complaining and taking offline the raid array, but I'm still getting the same error when I go to launch rutorrent once rtorrent is running. There are no files names the same in both /lib and /opt/lib. Any other ideas?

[ruben00]

hmmm, the ldconfig was my only card, sorry, how about another rtorrent front end, does it give you the same error?

[ChrisTWL]

I was able to get wtorrent to work as a frontend, but it's not ideal as it doesn't support the same feature set as rutorrent and is quite limited in comparison. I noticed that rutorrent complains about not being able to access the stat program and id program. I was reading that the id program that's installed on the Javelin may not be compliant as it does not support the -G flag. Looking at my rutorrent setup on my router, I can see that that one does support -G. Where might I be able to get new versions of those programs?

[ruben00]

whats the ID program (the name fo the binary i mean)? and if you run rutorrent front end from your router, can you point it to the rtorrent client on the javelin?

[ChrisTWL]

The id program is supposed to be part of the coreutils package. It is supposed to print real and effective user and group IDs. I haven't had much luck getting the router frontend to work with the NAS backend, but I haven't put as much effort into it as I probably could. I may end up revisiting that approach.