PSA: Don't update your qbittorrent to 4.4.0

[mistermanko]

Updating the qbittorrent client to 4.4.+ causes major stability issue and will wipe your configuration.
There is a Github issue, though with little activity at the moment.

For now it's better to stick to 4.3.9., I even locked the package to prevent any changes in qt. pkg lock qbittorrent-nox

 

[Jailer]

How long have you had qbittorent installed? Was it installed via the plugin or a manual install in a standard jail?

 

[mistermanko]

How long have you had qbittorent installed? Was it installed via the plugin or a manual install in a standard jail?

Installed in a standard jail via pkg install qbittorrent-nox for almost 2 years now. The config survived multiple Truenas updates, jail upgrades and pkg updates.

 

[Jailer]

Reason I ask is I ran into the nuked config issue a while back due to a change in the installation of the of the qbittorrent-nox package. At some point the installation location was changed and it gave a notice when you upgraded the package. Well I ignored it and here not long ago an update nuked my config. I had to set everything up again and I no longer get the notice when upgrading.

I know that doesn't address the instability you noted but may have something to do with your configuration being nuked. Thanks for the heads up on updating.

 

[mistermanko]

Reason I ask is I ran into the nuked config issue a while back due to a change in the installation of the of the qbittorrent-nox package. At some point the installation location was changed and it gave a notice when you upgraded the package. Well I ignored it and here not long ago an update nuked my config. I had to set everything up again and I no longer get the notice when upgrading.

I know that doesn't address the instability you noted but may have something to do with your configuration being nuked. Thanks for the heads up on updating.

Interesting. I may have ran into the same config nuke issue a while ago too but somehow fixed it by rolling back and ignoring PKG updates for a month or so...lol.
This time seems different though, with the GUI locking up and the overall instabilities.

 

[DeltaEntropy]

Anyway to downgrade to 4.3.9?

Thanks

 

[Jailer]

I just updated to 4.4.2 yesterday and I'm having no issues so far.

 

[DeltaEntropy]

For those interested, I've figured how to downgrade qbittorrent past the versions in the "latest" and "quarterly" repos for pkg.

https://www.truenas.com/community/t...-implications-with-zfs-arc.100505/post-700654

I've successfully downgraded from 4.4.2 (and 4.4.3.1) to 4.3.8

 

[mistermanko]

Because of this issue, I switched to transmission for good. No reason for using the memory hungry qbittorrent anymore.

 

[numbertwo]

I just updated to 4.4.2 yesterday and I'm having no issues so far.

Hi
was it upgraded from 4.4.1 ? Did you just use the 'Update' option in the Plugins and let it run ? Will it anyhow wipe out the torrent list (my previous update actually wiped all out and i have to re-seed all the torrents).. ? Sorry, too many Qs.

 

[Jailer]

Did you just use the 'Update' option in the Plugins and let it run ?

I don't run plugins.

 

[danb35]

Did you just use the 'Update' option in the Plugins and let it run ?

Nobody should be using plugins for anything at this point.

iXsystems, when are you going to stop pretending that CORE has (usable) plugins?

Plugins are broken. We all know it, and you have no intention of fixing them. Most notably, @Kris Moore has said not to use them, and that they're "more or less deprecated": using plugins on CORE is a path to sadness. The plugin system is more or less deprecated and as you can tell, somewhat...

www.truenas.com

 

[winnielinnie]

Upstream has reverted back to libtorrent-rasterbar 1.2 (rather than libtorrent-rasterbar 2.0) for qBittorrent 4.4.5.

This should resolve most issues with previous iterations of qBittorrent 4.4.x.

 

[nojohnny101]

I just upgraded to 4.4.5 with no problems (and lots of custom settings).

 

[numbertwo]

I just upgraded to 4.4.5 with no problems (and lots of custom settings).

Thanks , i just did that and the upgrade works well this time.