Re: btdownload errors (FC4 isos)

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:48 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 22:56 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 22:40, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > > I just saw on the fedora-devel list that someone who was having
> > > similar issues got bittorrent working after upgrading from 4.1.1 to
> > > 4.1.2. Upstream bugs apparently.
> > 
> > me! ;)
> > 
> > And it's true. Ran it for the whole day without one traceback. (Though, 
> > either way doesn't make a difference. It still download with 4.1.1 and 
> > the speed wasn't really affected that much.  I presume it would just 
> > count as an occasional packet error.)
> 
> Another data point - tried to download CentOS 4.1 i386 DVD  with
> btdownloadcurses.py and it hung with ~99% cpu usage and with the
> terminal window "frozen" - no refresh, no response to q, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z.
> 
> Killed from another window, restarted at it hung similarly at ~35%
> through checking the existing file.  Did yum remove "yum remove python-
> khashmir bittorrent bittorrent-gui" and installed the "Official" version
> from http://www.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-4.1.2-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> Restarted btdownloadcurses.py, check file and DL finished short order,
> and am now seeding the file from here.
> 
> Moral of the story - upgrade is in order.

Just ran updates on home machine after installing BitTorrent-4.1.2-1
earlier today.  Dag bittorrent-4.1.1-2.1.fc3.rf wants to obsolete it
even though the other version is higher:

# yum update
...
Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
  Install: bittorrent.noarch 0:4.1.1-1.1.fc3.rf - dag
  Update: bzip2.i386 0:1.0.2-13.FC3.1 - updates-released
  Update: bzip2-devel.i386 0:1.0.2-13.FC3.1 - updates-released
  Update: bzip2-libs.i386 0:1.0.2-13.FC3.1 - updates-released
  Update: checkpolicy.i386 0:1.17.5-1.2 - updates-released
  Update: gzip.i386 0:1.3.3-14.fc3 - updates-released
  Update: selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:1.17.30-3.9 - updates-released
  Update: spamassassin.i386 0:3.0.4-1.fc3 - updates-released
  Update: util-linux.i386 0:2.12a-24.3 - updates-released

Performing the following to resolve dependencies:
  Install: python-khashmir.noarch 0:4.1.1-2.1.fc3.rf - dag

Other Transactions:
  Obsoleting: BitTorrent.noarch 0:4.1.2-1 with bittorrent.noarch 0:4.1.1-1.1.fc3.rf

Total download size: 2.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
#

Disabled Dag repo for now. :-(

Phil