Utorrent 1.8 does not work under Wine

[davidw89]

Using latest version of Wine.

I double click on utorrent.exe and the program proceeds to install in my virtual C:\ drive accordingly to Wine. But none of the .torrent file will open, it says unable to load " ". Path not found. Clearly this has something to do with the directory problem but man why isn't this fixed?

[thelittlefire]

What problem? What kind of stupid pathing are you using which would cause a problem to Windows? Remember Windows does not understand "." folders and is case-insensitive.

[Firon]

Your folder permissions are probably incorrect and utorrent isn't able to access the torrent storage folder (which by default is %AppData%\uTorrent)

[hugootto]

davidw89: drag&drop the torrent file to the utorent window.

[kulight]

i have the same problem with 1.8

first utorrent 1.7.7 work great

and when loading torrent trough the file menu in utorrent also works

when trying utorrent 1.8 i get errors when loading .torrent files

1. when loading from firefox i get:

unable to load

/tmp/xxx.torrent

path not found

2. when loading from my torrents folder i get:

unable to load

/path/to/torrent/folder/xxx.torrent

path not found

i have tried autodetect in wine cfg reinstalling wine using different versions of wine nothing helps

please help

link to ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=723690

[DreadWingKnight]

What version of wine?

[NoOneButMe]

Try moving ~/.wine to ~/.wine.bak and rerunning wine utorrent.exe

Also, you should never be running wine with root or sudo. Thats a possible cause of this problem.

Firon was right when he said it was because of permissions.

[kulight]

wine is version 1.1.2

also one of the first things i tried was renaming the /.wine folder and it didnt change a thing

and why do you think wine is running with sudo (its not)

i remind you everything work with utorrent 1.7.7

[bolar]

same problem here with 1.8 version

[thelittlefire]

Describing your case does more than "me too"

Even a "I was running 1.7.7 On Ubuntu 8.04, then hit update from within the uTorrent client. Now when I run utorrent.exe (1.8 build 11704) it doesn't pop up the GUI"

[bolar]

same as kulight

1. when loading from firefox i get:

unable to load

/tmp/xxx.torrent

path not found

2. when loading from my torrents folder i get:

unable to load

/path/to/torrent/folder/xxx.torrent

path not found

...

but I'm fine if I use from uTorrent: "Add torrent" and then select .torrent file to use

[NoOneButMe]

and why do you think wine is running with sudo (its not)

Because 99.9% of the time when wine has a problem with permissions, it is due to wine being run as root (either because someone logged in as root, or because they used sudo wine) at one point and then as a regular user later on.

And also because the last time this exact situation happened to be was because i was logged into a sudo session in my term when i ran wine by accident. And theres other posts with wine not being able to find a path to load a file where it turns out that the person was logged in as root or used sudo/su. It's not that I'm guessing randomly. It's that permissions are most likely to be the cause of the problem.

So i would suggest moving ~/.wine somewhere else again, making sure you are not root and then running wine utorrent.exe.

[kulight]

first i apologize if i offended you (NoOneButMe) i didnt mean to

i'm not a english speaker so my words may not be exact

second i have tried what you offered and got that:

$ wine utorrent

wine: created the configuration directory '/home/kulight/.wine'

Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.

wine: configuration in '/home/kulight/.wine' has been updated.

wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\utorrent.exe": Module not found

then i tried renaming the /.wine folder back (deleting th new one) and got that:

$ wine utorrent.exe

wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\utorrent.exe": Module not found

but it is lunching and working using through the app menu or the desktop icon except for the problems above

[Firon]

system32? Sounds like it's loading it from a very wrong path. O_o

[kulight]

its the way it always been it may be the wrong command to run utorrent

the command in the shortcut is:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/kulight/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe"

[NoOneButMe]

I wasn't offended, sorry if it came across as such.

You shouldn't have to set WINEPREFIX unless you use a non-standard path. and /home/user/.wine is the standard path for wine. So you don't have to set WINEPREFIX.

Do this:

rm -rf /home/kulight/.wine
wine utorrent.exe

don't set WINEPREFIX, dont change any other options.

[kulight]

i did not set that the installer set it

what you suggest is the same as renaming the folder and i already tried that

[NoOneButMe]

What i suggested guarantees that it is not interfering with anything. Because it sounds like it's setting WINEPREFIX to go to that directory stiill somehow.

//edit: uTorrent doesn't set WINEPREFIX, so if your'e touching it, its being done on your own. You are using pure wine and nothing like winedoors right?

[evil]

maybe utorrent is not touching WINEPREFIX directly, but all of us (with this problem) just did the automatic upgrade to 1.8, so to launch the new installer, wine must be called and maybe automatically prefixes that when creating the link, but anyway the problem is (also) somewhere else, because that error is returned also when utorrent is closed and i download a new torrent from firefox.

it should happen because the torrents are downloaded in /tmp/ by default then they should be moved to another dir (where utorrents has rights) and this is not happening, while 1.7.7 did that.

(i don't understand exactly the source of the problem, so some things i'm just guessing)

[NoOneButMe]

uTorrent has absolutely nothing to do with setting WINEPREFIX. And the updater works fine with Wine.

Make sure the permissions on the folders have not changed. Because both the updater and loading torrents automatically from a folder works perfectly fine on my end. This is after "rm -rf ~/.wine && wine utorrent.exe" with a version of 1.7.7.

If you see "WARNING: Trying to create a socket of type SOCK_RAW, this will fail unless you have special permissions." and go to hack around to fix it, dont bother. It's a kernel-level permissions problem, not a file-level one. Unless you want to hack XNU's sources, you wont fix it. It is not a major error in either case so you can ignore it. You should not ever run sudo wine utorrent.exe or something similar to run wine as root. That will mess things up. And the result is going to be similar to what you're seeing now. If it even starts up.

[evil]

mmmhhh ok:

1 - "rm -rf ~/.wine" removes all the previous settings and installed apps in wine, not so wise i think

2 - anyway i did and didn't solve the problem

3 - to make it more clear i will tell EXACTLY what i did, step by step: i pressed on a torrent in firefox and that automatically opened utorrent 1.7.7 and started downloading. after few seconds it proposed me to install 1.8. i pressed ok, it restarted utorrent to install the new one.i pressed on another torrent on firefox and it tried to do what it worked until few minutes before, but now i get always that error.

so, i don't want to argue about your knowledge, but it is crystal clear that if it is a permission problem, it has been triggered when i upgraded utorrent, thus it is involved somehow in the problem

[kulight]

i have opened a bug in wine but some one closed it saying something about wine path

link:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14884

[evil]

they say it is a path not translated from unix to windows format i think.

for the /tmp/... error it could be (when i drag a torrent into utorrent from wherever i don't get any error), but i don't know where to change it, because in both wine and utorrent i have all windows formatted addresses, no /tmp/.

and i still would like to understand how can this happen when we upgrade utorrent without utorrent having any responsibility. at the least 1.8 must have a new parameter not correctly translated by wine, but nonetheless it is involved

[TackyTiger]

Mine stopped working after the 1.8 update too. I've fixed this on my machine (Ubunty Hardy) by adding z: (mapped to / in wine) to the helper script /usr/bin/utorrent

#!/bin/sh

wine /home/{my user}/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/uTorrent/uTorrent.exe "z:$*"

[walkman79]

I reported the same error with a uTorrent 1.8 Release Candidate 3 months ago in the IRC channel. Firon told me that it will be fixed but it actually hasn't been fixed. I think I must have written about this problem in the Forum .

I know Firon and staff have done a great effort to bring us an improved client but it seems that they forgot about Linux users

Btw, utorrent 1.7.7 works perfectly with Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, but utorrent 1.8 doesn't work with Ubuntu Hardy. I haven't tested on Debian and CentOS yet.

Edit: Yeah, it works TackyTiger thanks