[KDE] KTorrent can't see the mounted volumes.

[Achaean]

Hi!

I just upgraded to Saucy and KTorrent can't see the mounted hard disk partitions.
I'm getting the message: "one or more storage volumes are not mounted. In order to start this torrent, they need to be mounted".
with the options "Retry " or Cancel".
Retry doesn't do something.

I had this bug rarely in Raring and rebooting was solving this problem, but now is persistent.

[Rod J]

How are you mounting the partition(s)? Can you see them in Dolphin? Are they mounted read only?

[Achaean]

I'm just clicking on them (on Dolphin).
Yes they're visible and with full read-write access.
I can't see any problems with other programs.

A google search reveals similar KTorrent problems, most of them resolved, but seems like ktorrent is a bit touchy on external partition access.

[Rod J]

A google search on that error message brings up some interesting results.

It may be a bug in the ktorrent app itself.

[Achaean]

Oh I see!

OK. I posted at the KDE related forum and asked, if bug report is needed.

[jlittle]

I'm just clicking on them (on Dolphin)

Just in case you're not, are you aware that clicking them in Dolphin causes them to be mounted? If ktorrent is started before dolphin, then it might be getting confused. You can get them to be mounted at log in using System settings -> Removable devices (even though they may not be "removable", rather "attached").

Regards, John Little

[Achaean]

I tried automounting the partition at boot time, but this doesn't make any difference.

[vinnywright]

IF you have the partitions mounted by dolphin or the auto mount utility thay will be mounted in /media with the UUID extension .......is this where Ktorrent is looking for the data?

it is possible that Ktorrent is looking at the wrong location .........and is why it is giving the error .

in Ktorrent their is a location column, expand it so you can see the hole path , and check if this is actually the location of the data .

this is one reason I have partitions that I use in a system listed in /etc/fstab ......so they are allwase mounted in the same place .

VINNY

[Achaean]

The saving location is wrong, because now is mounting the partition at /media/giorgos/DOCS/, while at Raring was mounting it, at /media/DOCS/.
However the problem is, that even changing the save directory at options, ktorrent still can't see the partition.

[vinnywright]

what dose

df -h

show?

VINNY

[Achaean]

Δευ Οκτ 21 . 05:28 πμ ~>df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2        29G   19G  8,6G  69% /
none            4,0K     0  4,0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            862M  4,0K  862M   1% /dev
tmpfs           175M  1,1M  174M   1% /run
none            5,0M     0  5,0M   0% /run/lock
none            875M  1,3M  874M   1% /run/shm
none            100M   20K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda1       398G  391G  6,6G  99% /media/giorgos/DOCS
Δευ Οκτ 21 . 05:28 πμ ~>

[vinnywright]

IF you re-download a torrent and when it gives the pop up asking where to put it , point it to the old data ,,,,,,,,,,,dose it parse the data and start to seed ,,,,,or dose it start downloading it over agin?

VINNY

[Achaean]

It creates a subdirectory named DOCS at my home directory, and starts downloading there.