download stops within 10 seconds!?!

[philayre]

This has been driving me mad for some days now.

I'm setting up an ubuntu 12.04 server with the deluge deamon installed. I connet to this deamon from other PCs in my household to add torrents, which are downloaded to a file server.

the server and Deluge deamon are setup to connect to a VPN, I'm using deluge v1.3.6 on xubuntu 12.04.

my problem is: on adding a magnet link to the deamon my download starts, within a few seconds the download speed is ~200kBps, however after a few more seconds the download rate drops slowly to 0. the whole process takes around 10 seconds and the download will progress no further, unless I restart the deamon, in which case the whole process starts again. At the moment I'm connected to 137 DHT nodes, 200 peers but have 'no incoming connections'.

I cannot see any problems with my routing table / VPN connection, if I disconnect from the VPN the same problem occurs. And the fact it starts downloading OK initially leads me to think its a problem with deluge, not my network

Please let my know if there's any other information I can provide, this is driving me NUTS.

[philayre]

ok, some more information:

the same thing happens when I add a new torrent, so I can run deluge, it will start to download then stop, if I add a new torrent this one will begin to download then again stop also (the original torrent will remain at 0kbps throught out this).

any ideas of things I can look into to try and resolve this?

[Cas]

Have you checked the logs for errors?

[philayre]

Thanks, I have only got round to setting up the log files now, and i see the following in /var/log/deluge/web:

[WARNING ] 21:36:40 config:361 Unable to open config file /home/deluge/.config/deluge/hostlist.conf.1.2: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/deluge/.config/deluge/hostlist.conf.1.2'

could this be the source of my problems? any idea how to sort it out?

Really appreciate any help.
Cheers

[philayre]

OK I have reinstalled my OS from scratch with Deluge 1.3.6 several times and still have the same problem of torrents starting to download then stopping after 5 - 10 seconds.

Any ideas at all?

I can connect to the internet OK from the computer running the deluge daemon, download speed tests give me download speeds in the region of 10Mbps. I am using a VPN connection.

I have attached two screen shots, one showing the inital download, another showing what I see after a few seconds

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[Cas]

Likely a permission issue with the download path.

[philayre]

unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the problem, deluge can save the downloaded file ok, I can see it in my file system and can get the download to progress if I continually restart the daemon (see below)

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I am saving my files to a server mounted to the system using cifs, there is still nothing mentioned in the logs.

anything else I can look at?

[philayre]

Apologies, it was a permissions issue, chmod 777 and the problem went away. I'll get my head round permissions one day!

[BenBoosted]

I've got the exact same situation. What did you chmod exactly?

[philayre]

the file directory where I was saving the torrents, in my case the whole mounted file system