Deluge Daemon Stops Working After One Download

[yochaigal]

Ubuntu 10.10, Deluge 1.3.1 (PPA) on an aspire revo. I only run deluged and deluge-web --- it has worked very well with the same version since it was first released.

This one is a doozy. In a nutshell, this is what happens:
I connect to deluge-web at port 8112, i provide my password. The daemon is autoconnected to localhost @ port 58846
I add a torrent. It adds successfully.
Here is the troubling part: the torrent NEVER BEGINS. It collects peers, but never starts downloading.
I then STOP and START the daemon, reconnect it to deluge-web (through the interface) and it begins downloading the torrent.
After the torrent finishes, it seeds until I tell it to stop. The MOMENT I add another torrent, the same thing happens from above.
This is not limited to one torrent either; I can add many torrents after starting the deluge daemon again --- only after an unknown amount of time does the problem reoccur.
Basically, I have to restart the daemon every time I want to add a new torrent(s).

I have:

* thoroughly checked permissions, config, ports, etc on my linux box to ensure that nothing is preventing the daemon from functioning properly.
* checked the logs (in debug mode) for anything that would help me understand the problem
* deleted my .config/deluge folder, and set it up from scratch.
* reinstalled (with purge) all deluge packages I use
* tried multiple torrents from multiple trackers

It took about two hours or so for the problem to start. I made a number of attempts before the problem started.... see the final torrent for the problem in question.

If you can help me understand this, I'd be most grateful. Thanks

[yochaigal]

Problem persists using git version 1.3.9 ----

At this point, I'm guessing there's something genuinely funky with my OS....

[Cas]

Certainly is an odd problem, best I can suggest is to see if you can reproduce this without using deluge-web? (e.g. console, gui or watch folder)

Do you run deluge-web using the plugin or standalone program?

[yochaigal]

standalone.
i thought of using the gtk app, but it's on a remote server. I could do it with X forwarding/ssh, though.

[yochaigal]

craziness.

so I installed the GUI of deluge.... and the problem persisted.
HOWEVER:
Whilst looking through the deluge-gtk settings pane (to ensure that the application itself was using my .config prefs) I noticed the "test incoming port" button. I thought, what the hell I'd like a nice, gui-friendly green arrow.
And lo, it was red!
I quickly checked my router config, and to my dismay the port number listed was ONE NUMBER OFF. I had recently upgraded my router, and seemingly put port 8881 instead of 6881!!!!
I changed the port, got the green arrow, and the download began immediately, without having to restart the daemon.

Now, this makes no sense: lots of people run torrent clients with UPnP only, so the only guess I can hazard is that my tomato router (wrt54gl) had ants up its pants.
Lets hope this is a permanent fix.