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Error: unexpected end of file in bencoded string

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:28 pm
by UglyBob
I'm having serious trouble with Deluge and REALLY need your help. Maybe for a month or two my torrents started to end up in queued state after completion with the tracker status saying "Error: unexpected end of file in bencoded string". This happens usually after a little while of seeding. I tried everything to solve it, reinstalling Deluge, upgrading, finally I even deleted my whole seed folder and created a new one. This solved the problem for a while, but now it has come back. Someone said that I might have a broken disk or RAM, but I have run memory and disk test and couldn't find anything....

I'm running Deluge headless on a small Arch linux machine with an external USB disk as the seed disk.

My versions are:
Client: 1.3.7
Server: 1.3.13
libtorrent: 1.1.1.0

Extremely greatful for any hints on how to investigate this, getting a little bit desperate...

Re: Error: unexpected end of file in bencoded string

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 2:17 pm
by UglyBob
No ideas? Any log I can check? Any debug options to try? Anything is helpful...

Re: Error: unexpected end of file in bencoded string

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 4:27 pm
by Eyra
Similar issue. Memory is healthy too. The error appears but the torrent will continue to download or seed. One newly added torrent had this problem while 4 old torrents started showing this error at the same time. All torrents were added from a torrent file and not a magnet.

I don't understand the nature of it, is the torrents.state file becoming corrupted somehow?

I have other problems with the state folder that you can see in my other post.

Deluge 1.3.15