rutorrent on cygwin

[simur612]

Hi rutorrent community! I'm a longtime (7+ years) rtorrent user on various platforms but just recently learned about rutorrent. Looks good!

As I'm running cygwin on my windows mediacenter anyway for ssh etc, I compiled rtorrent for the kicks of it. It works rather nice, so I figured why not try to get rutorrent running on the machine aswell. I have lighttpd with php installed/configured according to the docs and .rtorrent.rc including scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000

I can get rutorrent to load, but it displays the following error: [28.06.2010 21:26:50] Bad response from server: (500 [error,getplugins]) and won't make any connection to rtorrent. As my situation is quite odd I haven't been able to figure out the specifics why this is happening, but maybe someone can help me along. Would be fun to get this running

 

[randac56]

yah, first thing you should try to do is delete all plugins.

 

[simur612]

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yah, first thing you should try to do is delete all plugins.

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thanks for the fast reply:

JS error: [http://localhost/rutorrent/js/content.js : 568] theWebUI.systemInfo.rTorrent is undefined

 

[simur612]

sorry, that happened when i renamed plugins/ dir, but looks like it must be there. anyway, rutorrent is now working on my windows machine. I guess I have to look more into what plugin causes the mess.

[28.06.2010 21:38:47] rTorrent's user can't access 'id' program. Some functionality will be unavailable

 

[randac56]

type

which id


if you don't have it, then install id


if you get a response, put it in your rutorrent/conf/config.php (or rutorrent/conf/users/USERNAME/config.php )

if not, you need to install id

 

[simur612]

id is installed, as is everything else. I also added it to the windows PATH. so it works when i type it directly at a cmd prompt too. I wonder if I might have to call it id.exe in config.php though. Anyway, I'll report of my findings soon.

 

[randac56]

i just installed cygwin just to check and it's located at /usr/bin/id


I will attempt to compile rtorrent/rutorrent and all that but it might be slow going due to it being in a vm of window xp AND in cygwin

I'm sure i'll get it all straighted out

 

[simur612]

hey, sounds good if you have any issues with compilation, check http://rtwi.jmk.hu/wiki/rTorrentOnWindows

The info there misses a couple of required packages, but you need the patch. Everything else is quite easy to figure out thoughfor some reason my cygwin couldn't locate ncurses, so I had to symlink ncurses.h inside /usr/includes to /usr/includes/ncurses/curses.h to get rtorrent to compile.

 

[randac56]

if i can make it compile on solaris i can make it compile on cygwin

 

[simur612]

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if i can make it compile on solaris i can make it compile on cygwin
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Hear-hear! Longtime Solaris user here too.. work related ofc

 

[simur612]

been digging a bit deeper into this. seems like most plugins fail like this in php error log:

Code:
[28-Jun-2010 21:26:50] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'C:\docs\wwwutorrent/plugins/rss/conf.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\docs\www\rutorrent\plugins\rss\init.php(2) : eval()'d code on line 1
seems like something strips the path? proper should be c:\docs\www\rutorrent, but the slash and r are gone.

 

[simur612]

I switched to a wamp distribution for my apache/php needs and can now see the following in the rutorrent log:


[28.06.10 21:48:31] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><methodCall><methodName>execute</methodName><params>
<param><value><string>sh</string></value></param>
<param><value><string>-c</string></value></param>
<param><value><string>id -u &gt; C:\wamp\www
utorrent mp
utorrent-stats-148484c2918af4e81f ; id -G &gt;&gt; C:\wamp\www
utorrent mp
utorrent-stats-148484c2918af4e81f ; echo ~ &gt;&gt; C:\wamp\www
utorrent mp
utorrent-stats-148484c2918af4e81f ; chmod 0644 C:\wamp\www
utorrent mp
utorrent-stats-148484c2918af4e81f</string></value></param>
</params></methodCall>
[28.06.10 21:48:31] Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 296

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
<fault>
<value><struct>
<member><name>faultCode</name>
<value><i4>-503</i4></value></member>
<member><name>faultString</name>
<value><string>Bad return code.</string></value></member>
</struct></value>
</fault>
</methodResponse>

 

[randac56]

i'm honestly not sure...i haven't had time to really start playing with it yet. This problem is likely related entirely to cygwin but i'm sure if it can be fixed we will figure it out

 

[simur612]

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i'm honestly not sure...i haven't had time to really start playing with it yet. This problem is likely related entirely to cygwin but i'm sure if it can be fixed we will figure it out
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hey. looks to me the problems all come from the external made-for-windows, ie. non-cygwin php. I found a proper cygwin package for php too, and will try with that one tomorrow.

 

[randac56]

man, i'm fuckin around with cygwin and god is it slow.

I mean REALLY slow. I would put money on Virtualbox + debian or FreeBSD being the better option.

 

[simur612]

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man, i'm fuckin around with cygwin and god is it slow.

I mean REALLY slow. I would put money on Virtualbox + debian or FreeBSD being the better option.
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yes, would make more sense it seems.

 

[randac56]

a couple things:

Looking at some of the instructions online:


they say to use svn rtorrent, this is not going to be a good idea

only use stable 0.8.6

also, use xmlrpc-c advanced


I'm almost done installing everything so i will let you know