When I run Vuze Bittorrent client on 64-bit Linux Mint, the Vuze application terminates every few minutes (seems like always somewhere between 3 and 15 minutes, most often about 5 minutes).


I have no idea why this is happening. When this happens, the process no longer exists. I can start up the Vuze client again at any time by double clicking the Vuze icon on the desktop, and it starts up again as expected.


I can't find anything in any of the menus that appears to provide an option like this to exist or be available. I just have no idea.


Does anyone know what this is?

If you start it from the terminal does it give you any output when it closes? I'd start there.

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THANKS

Thanks for the good idea.


The following is what appeared in the terminal after the application terminated. Note that all the lines that start with DEBUG appeared a few minutes before the final line that contains "4048 Segmentation fault".


I don't know the nature or significance of that segmentation fault, but maybe someone else does! :-)

would be nice to post the full output. segmentation fault is a general error message, hard to say anything without details (most probably a software incompatibility related issue).

Oh! I see that cut and paste didn't appear last time, so the following is what you probably wanted to see (I thought it was included).

DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:29:57 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:30:28 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:30:58 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:30:58 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:30:59 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:30:59 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:31:00 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:31:00 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:31:00 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
DEBUG::Mon Aug 10 10:46:24 PDT 2020 VersionCheckClient - java.io.IOException: connect op failed: Connection refused
install/vuze/vuze: line 219: 4048 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${JAVA_PROGRAM_DIR}java "${JAVA_ARGS}" -cp "${CLASSPATH}" -Djava.library.path="${PROGRAM_DIR}" -Dazureus.install.path="${PROGRAM_DIR}" -Dazureus.script="$0" $JAVA_PROPS $START_CLASS "$@"
Exit from Azureus complete
No shutdown tasks to do
Azureus TERMINATED.

Adding 'vuze +linux' to a search of Dazureus.install.path="${PROGRAM_DIR}" eventually sends me here:

http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Unix_Startup_Script

I'd check there.* It may be just a string or variable wrong and may need manual configuration.

* That's not true. I'd have just installed Transmission.

^ Or qbittorrent.
Seriously, OP, you don't need bloated & fragile Java software to download torrents under Linux.
Whatever you install, make sure it's from the distro's official repositories.

I'm 99% sure I did install via the normal software manager feature in Linux Mint. That's always how I select and install software ... unless I need something that is simply not available via standard mechanisms.

So unless Vuze has not been available through those mechanisms on Linux Mint, I did install via the usual standard mechanisms. OTOH, I just did a check with Software Manager and it doesn't seem to find anything for "vuze" ... so maybe this was one of the few cases I installed independently. I simply don't remember, because I've always had a terrible memory.

I'm married, so I pay for Hulu+, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, and I think there's another one. She prefers those, but I still find it easier to just download or stream anything I want. So, I use Transmission quite a bit. It sits in my system tray, exists there right now actually, and I'd almost auto-start the application but I prefer to start things manually. On this computer, the one I use the most, it's running pretty much all the time. (I also share a ton of current Linux distros simply to try to do my part.)

I suppose what I'm trying to do is endorse Transmission. It just works. It's straightforward, doesn't have any bugs that I notice, does what it's supposed to do, and stays out of my way - hidden in the system tray when minimized is actually an important feature for me as I dislike too much clutter. I don't even have desktop icons of any kind. Those make no sense to me, as I am never at my blank desktop.

Huh... That was some serious digression. I think my point was that you may just want to pick a different torrent client. There are tons to pick from and I find Transmission suitable for my needs.

So "Transmission" is a torrent client? A Vuse equivalent? Frankly, I don't remember when or why I first got Vuse [over any of the alternatives].


In SoftwareManager I see Transmission-gtk and Transmission-qt. What's the best choice? I also see Qbittorrent and Ktorrent and Deluge-torrent and Rtorrent.


I prefer an app with GUI interface because I've always had a terrible memory and thus am very bad at remembering command names and options/switches. I also prefer the KISS principle, in other words "keep it simple unless you need to do something truly weird".

I'm *pretty* sure it's the -qt, but you can just go here:

https://transmissionbt.com/download/

You're using Mint, which may be largely Qt based, so the -qt version is probably what you're after. However, the link will have all sorts of versions, for pretty much every OS out there.

Not really. Transmission is something like called "complete solution". There is a torrent client, a command line interface, a web interface and probably more.
There is no best choice, all of them works perfectly. They only have different look and different features, but basically all are the same.

Transmission-gtk and Transmission-qt are two different GUIs for gtk and qt. The torrent client itself is Transmission-daemon if I remember well.