RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 I was downloading the pwp dvd version of 2009.0 using Opera's bittorrent. It was really slow. I had forgotten to open up the ports in the firewall. So I opened them up and Opera took off and was downloading really fast -- until it crashed. I tried it three times, and after a couple of minutes Opera crashes while doing bittorrent downloads. I guess I'll try Azureus (Vuze now or something like that) and see if that works. Not sure if the problem is Opera or 2009.0 with the bittorrent downloads. I never had any such Opera problems with 2008.1. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Vuze (azureus) is working fine on 2009.0 this is what I'm using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Vuze (azureus) is working fine on 2009.0 this is what I'm using. Ok thanks, I'll install it when I get home and give it a shot. Maybe the problem is with Opera 9.6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 It could be, Opera 9.52 is the latest version available in the Mandriva repositories. So chances are it's an Opera 9.6 issue or generally their implementation of bittorrent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 I had gone to the Opera site to get my browser fix before I had the repositories set up. I could try urpme"ing" it and then installing Opera from the repositories to see if the same thing happens. Maybe I'll try that first just to see. Thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 IMHO opera is the best browser but its torrent client is quite crappy; I have switched to deluge for gtk and ktorrent for kde torrent clients, far less resource hungry than vuze, only for very small files I use opera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Well, the issue seems to be 2009.0. After downloading for a few minutes KTorrent crashes also. Maybe if I can get VirtualBox installed, I can use Windows to download 2009.0. A sad state of affairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Did you try azureus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 maybe you don't have enough diskspace? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 (edited) I have over 100 GB unused space. That should be enough. I didn't try Azureus. KTorrent should have been able to handle it and with fewer resources. My buddy just reminded me that in the errata or in something (some link I sent to him) there is a mention of a network problem in 2009.0, and mentions the package to remove if one encounters a problem. I have to find that reference and go from there. I understand there is an issue with the network manager. I need to find the reference somewhere so I can see what to uninstall/install. Edited October 16, 2008 by RVDowning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Vuze/Azureus seems to be working fine. The PWP DVD has been download/uploading for over an hour without any problems. Neither Opera nor KTorrent could last over 5 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 wine+utorrent is still my preferred torrent combination. if i need to reboot to windows to do some work, i can still continue my torrents. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 Ok, it did complete ok. Nice and fast too. Now if I can just find a product that works that will allow me to burn the iso to a dvd. :sad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 Brasero works but this is a gnome app, but you can install under KDE and use just the same - I have K3B in Gnome too, and it's fine :) Either that, or login with Gnome and use nautilus to burn the DVD. This I generally use the most. I don't use KDE though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted October 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 I'll give brasero try. Thanks. k3b seems to have stopped working (at least for iso burning). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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