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neonerd

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utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

everything has been working fine for months now until i rebooted yesterday and ever since utorrent just says updating for the tracker status, no matter what changes i make it doesnt affect anything, any help would be appreciated, also i tried other clients and they worked fine, it seems to be only utorrent doing this, i've tried changing the settings, reinstalling, etc, etc, but still nothing

i've included a screenshot

Ultima

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Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

Repatch TCPIP.sys.

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neonerd

Member

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

every other torrent program i use works perfectly, why would the tcpip.sys need to be repatched, especially since all i did for utorrent to stop working was reboot, never changed anything until after it f*cked up

DreadWingKnight

I never claimed to be nice.

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

Windows automatic updates apply after a reboot.

What is the net.max_halfopen advanced setting set to?

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neonerd

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Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

net.max_halfopen *474

some1 told me to use utorrent 1.5 and it will work then after a little bit switch back to 1.6, i did this and it worked like a charm

Firon

Administrator

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

The reason it stopped working is because you set that to a high value like an idiot. You CANNOT CHANGE IT FROM THE DEFAULT WITHOUT PATCHING TCPIP.SYS!

neonerd

Member

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

Firon: well arent you a bundle of wonderfulness... dumbass, learn to read, i said in my original post i didnt change anything until after it stopped working  and also fyfi i ALREADY patched tcpip.sys long before anything happening, utorrent 1.6 stopped working for no reason, then i used 1.5 for a few days without problem and now im uing 1.6 again with no problems, i didnt make any changes like RE-patching the tcpip.sys or any of the advanced settings, i simply changed from 1.6 to 1.5 then back to 1.6 and everything is lovely

Firon

Administrator

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

Do you have a personal firewall by any chance? If so, is it Zone Alarm, Norton or Kaspersky?

neonerd

Member

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

no firewalls, i use peerguardian and my net is some1 else's wifi using 1.5 for a few days then back to 1.6  worked perfect tho, i been goin full tilt ever since

Switeck

Member

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

Microsoft likes to UN-patch TCPIP.sys at almost every patching attempt they get.

SpasV

Member

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

The OS is Windows XP PRO SP2. I have the same problem - uTorrent 1.6 enters "updating ..." the tracker and nothing more happens.  I thought it happend after having installed third party applications and rebooting the system. Now I have to use Azureus 2.5.
I could not understand how to resolve the problem. And more specifically what does "Repatch TCPIP.sys" mean?
Thanks

Last edited by SpasV (2006-12-05 18:42:34)

Ultima

Administrator

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

Check the first link in my signature for ideas on how to fix that. And do tell us what firewall you're using.

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SpasV

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Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

(The problem is: having started a torrent file, uTorrent enters "updating..." status and nothing changes.)
I will continue working on the problem but what I have already done was:
1) installed the latest TCPIP.sys
2) installed uTorrent 1.5.1 build 466 - the same behaviour as uTorrent 1.6
3) decreased almost every parameter values (connections, speed, halfOpen ...)
The results are: (the behavior did not changed)
Speed Test Result - 5000 / 1788 (Kbps)
Checking port 22425 on 71.162.114.58... - OK! Port 22425 is open and accepting connections.

Last edited by SpasV (2006-12-05 13:24:02)

DreadWingKnight

I never claimed to be nice.

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

net.max_halfopen should NOT be increased from the default 8.
Any performance gains from actually setting higher are minimal in the first 5 minutes of a torrent's going active, and nonexistent after 5 minutes.

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SpasV

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Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

While in status "updating..." I did a connection check:
Attempting connect to: 71.162.114.58 port 22425
Pass!

[MERGE]
I tried net.max_halfopen:
4, 100 - the same result - not working!

[MERGE]
It is obvious: uTorrent waits in status "updating..." for an event it does not see after, maybe, my having installed some "third party applications". They were Real Player 10, FireFox, and Win32OpenSSL-v0.9.6m.
I have removed them, but even after that the new uTorrent (1.6, 1.5) instalation does not work!

[MERGE]
Ultima: "And do tell us what firewall you're using."
I use the Windows XP SP2 Firewall. But as it is seen from the results I have already posted the two independable port forwarding checks have passed.

[SOLUTION] [MERGE]
uTorrent 1.6 is now working!

What I have done was:
First, uTorrent has already assigned automatically port on the router and it worked fine even in this everlasting status "updaiting…"

I assigned the values uTorrent has already used for the parameter net.outgoing_port and my internal static IP address to net.bind_ip, net.outgoing_ip.
I this situation the router reported the (uTorrent) port been used by another service.
So, I reset (in uTorrent) all these parameters to the default values (empty  and  net.outgoing_port=0).
Then I corrected the port assignment in the router.

Finally uTorrent is working now.

Obviously, uTorrent needed a forced reassignment of the port and/or (I can not say) IP addresses.

Ultima: Holy smokes Batman, that was a super quintuple-post. Use the Edit link next time

Last edited by Ultima (2006-12-05 17:44:10)

SpasV

Member

Re: utorrent stopped working yesterday for no reason

Thanks,
I think uTorrent is too good for me to come in Troubleshooting forum again.