Deluge
OS = Kodachi 8.24 (yes I know Kodachi 8.25 is out... working that way...)
Error msg I'm getting from $ deluge -L error:
[ERROR ][deluge.core.preferencesmanager :262 ] Invalid tos byte: invalid literal for int() with base 16: ''
Here's how it started. Yesterday the drive that I store the Deluge temp files on (torrents not yet fully downloaded) died. I tried everything I can think of software-wise, including connecting it to a Windows machine and using a few apps on like Recuva and R-Studio. *Might* be able to be professionally recovered, but not by me, not with software. I do get a click on powering up the drive, so it's definitely a hardware issue. After the drive died when I ran Deluge, the program started up fine, it just couldn't find the torrents I had added of course. Figured I'd get it sorted out later, just changed the download directories to the primary partition. That worked fine on any new torrents I added.
Then I ran out of disk space and started moving what I *thought* I could from the primary partition to flash drives (all the space I have left ATM.) The default Kodachi Linux username is kodachi, and unable to be changed, so the *only* things I moved were from a directory I had added: /home/kodachi/!everything_else/ That's where I keep basically everything.
Of course Deluge is installed to it's default folder. I'm not smart enough to do anything cool with it yet - still mostly new to Linux. As far as the storage space issue goes, I ran out of space last night (again,) so I just closed Deluge, I'll handle that in the morning. I had already started moving stuff onto flash drives to make some space on the primary partition, and just left it moving files overnight.Then this morning when I woke up, a little bit of available storage space on the primary partition was created, so I figured I can now open Deluge and put it back to work. Unfortunately, when I open Deluge there are no torrents in the list at all. Waited a minute, no change. Cycled opening the app a couple of times, no change. Checked Prefs, still pointing at the primary partition. Hmm. Restored the ./!everything_else/Network tools directory (even though I think it's all just compressed files for future use) - no change. Came here and started searching. No dice. Googled for the error, still nothing. Oh BTW, I tried searching here, the FAQ, and Google for each of the following:
[ERROR ][deluge.core.preferencesmanager :262 ] Invalid tos byte: invalid literal for int() with base 16: ''
deluge.core.preferencesmanager :262 ] Invalid tos byte: invalid literal for int() with base 16
Invalid tos byte: invalid literal for int() with base 16
Invalid tos byte: invalid literal for int() with base
Invalid tos byte
deluge.core.preferencesmanager - tried this last one as a desperate attempt to maybe find where prefs are actually stored hoping maybe I could fix it by hand somehow...
So I don't really know how to fix this, let alone how I broke it. I would really appreciate your help - thank you so much for your time and attention.
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EDIT: Oh, and I did check to make certain that the directories I created for Deluge on the primary partition are still there. They are, and the stuff I was getting last night is still there - /home/kodachi/8TB_TMP for completed files and /home/kodachi/8TB_TMP/Deluge for temp files. There's currently 242GB free in that folder. The original directory was out on the 8TB_TMP drive: /media/8TB_TMP and /media/8TB_TMP/Deluge .
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EDIT: The Torrent menu option is grayed out. I'm guessing that this is because there aren't any in the list. If this is another sign, there ya go.
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EDIT: In an unrelated post, learned about /home/kodachi/.config/deluge/state . There's a hundred torrent files in there, torrents.fastresume is 4.7MB, and the torrents.fastresume.bak is 692.2K. I tried backing up those two files then changing the names from .bak to just torrents.fastresume and restarting Deluge - no change. I guess another idea might be to back up that folder then reinstall Deluge, see if that does anything... OK, that's my next task.
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EDIT: Hm. Tried uninstall/reboot/reinstall, no change. I tried adding a few torrents back from the /state directory, and they added fine of course, but it seems to have killed what I had already downloaded. OTOH, it works. So I gotta get the same stuff again, that's not really an issue. I might could backup what I've downloaded, add all the torrents from ./state then copy the backups back to the ./state directory again, then force recheck. Hm. That doesn't sound fun. I don't think I'll do that.
Instead, I'll just re-add everything and get it again - no big.I'm still going to leave this marked Unresolved, as I have found a workaround in this case, but that doesn't really resolve the base issue. I still don't know what I did to cause the problem to begin with as the ./config/deluge directory seems fine and intact, at least from an end user point of view. Oh well. Functional ATM.
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UPDATE!! It *is* doing the rechecking automagically, just like (I guess) it's supposed to. Those first few I added must have just never been gotten anything from. Either way functional, but the original issue could happen again since I still don't know what actually caused it. If you have any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them for the future. Thanks again!