I'm using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3WS and am very new to the OS (used to be a Windows user). Anyways, when I installed ctorrent, the site said I need openSSL. I downloaded & installed the package w/o any problems. Then, I downloaded & installed ctorrent, and did the regular ./configure, make & make install.

All seemed to go fine till I actually try downloading a torrent. When I issue a ctorrent name of torrent.torrent, the loader stays on 0 forever. As in, there is no progress being made on the "already / total" text. The "already" field stays on 0 forever.

I had no reported error in the ./configure , make or make install phases in either openssl (a prerequisite) or ctorrent.

PS: I'm running ctorrent off shell. Anyone encounter this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated & thanks in advance.

If there was a problem during the compilation or installation of the programs, you would have seen error messages then. If you saw none, the programs seem to be correctly installed, and the problem lies someplace else..

Have you tried to download a torrent that you have tested to work? For example would it be possible for you to use, at the same time, another computer to try that some torrent X downloads all right, and then re-try with ctorrent? It would eliminate the possibility that there simply are no seeds or available pieces. I bump regularly into situations where the torrent stays at zero for a long time, half an hour or even an hour before it starts to download (and then downloads at 5k/s...yawn).

Then you could check that your firewall (iptables) isn't blocking the traffic, and that something is happening (use somekind of nettool to test if there's right kind of traffic going on trough your ethernet card when you start downloading the thing).

If the program runs all right, it's not a problem with it's installation I think. Even if it was something with SSL libs, the configure part would have warned about that (or should have).

Thanks for the reply man.

Yes.

I studied the problem a bit more & upgraded the ctorrent to the enhanced ctorrent dnh 3.1. The upgrade was successful. When I try downloading, it seems as if I'm getting lots of tracker connection errors. No actual download whatseover.

Any tips on fixing tracker connection errors?

And also, the when I viewed the processes (of trying to dl w/ ctorrent), in verbiose mode, I am getting a "close: bad handshake" and "tracker connection refused" errors.

Try here for some solid reading...some of this ...is possibly...YOUR resolve. Good luck. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/A...er%20Guide.htm