Hi, I’m new to endeavour and been running happily for the last couple of months.
Using kde plasma 6 surfshark and qbittorrent I have had very few problems until I did a system update yesterday,everything appeared to go ok but I can no longer download in qbittorrent…
I tried rebinding my adapter , even uninstall , reinstall qbittorrent, tried opening ports in firewalld …
Still can’t connect to seeds…
Does anyone have any pointers ??? Internet works fine it’s just torrents
Thanks
Welcome to the community @Braincell 
I just tested qBittorrent 5.2.0 (current latest), and it’s successfully downloading the EndeavourOS ISO.
Is it possible there is something about your network that’s blocking torrents? For example, a router or DNS setting, or ISP? Are you using a VPN?
As a quick test, you could try tethering from your mobile and test, but be mindful not to let it start downloading too much it’ll eat up your mobile data pretty quickly!
Hi, I’m using surfshark but everything was working properly before the update and has been for the last couple of months.
It’s not unknown to have issues with VPNs. I also bet the VPN is the issue.
Hi @Braincell
I am using surfshark too.
Sometimes changing location can help. Some countries try to block torrent sites more active as before.
Just fiddle around with the vpn location and try again.
I’m using qBittorrent 5.2 with ProtonVPN and everything is working fine here. It’s got to be a VPN or upstream network (DNS, ISP, port-blocking) problem.
I’m using Qbittorrent with Mullvad VPN/Wireguard. I tried several locations from Dallas, Texas, to Olso, Norway, to Johannesburg, South Africa. All is well here.
ok so it’s not the VPN because if I disable it I still cannot torrent…
Tried a community torrent - Ubuntu iso … lol
No surfshark and rebind adapter to any… connects to peers only , No seeds !!
Try to open ports specifically in firewalld… says they are open but still will not torrent…
Nothing has changed from router side and my laptop works fine , it’s definitely a change from the update.
Is there any other software that messes with IPs ??? I’m new to Linux but this is driving me nuts as an update shouldn’t spangle a running system like this… When it updated it did ask something about IP in the terminal window…
Internet works fine JUST torrents are blocked
Well, perhaps if you posted the pacman.log so we could see what was updated when…
I’m also using qbittorrent with a VPN and no issues there.
Launch it from the command line and see if it gives you any useful errors.
qbittorrent
What tell you the bottom status bar : connection status, external IP@ ? At least, you will know if you are connected or not.
ok so it’s not the VPN because if I disable it I still cannot torrent…
This is not necessarily the case — some countries (like the Netherlands) legally force ISPs to block torrent sites at DNS/IP level, so disabling the VPN can actually make things worse, not better.
But given your laptop works fine on the same network, I agree the VPN is probably not the core issue here.
The detail that stands out most: “when it updated it did ask something about IP in the terminal window” — that was almost certainly firewalld switching its backend from iptables to nftables. This can silently reset which firewall zone your network interface is assigned to, making opened ports ineffective.
Can you run this and share the output?
bash
firewall-cmd --get-active-zones
firewall-cmd --list-all
Also in qBittorrent go to Tools → Options → Advanced and check “Network interface” — if it’s set to anything specific instead of blank/Any, clear it and restart qBittorrent.
The fact you can see peers but no seeds on the Ubuntu ISO torrent suggests incoming connections are still being blocked somewhere, even though outgoing works — which fits a firewall zone mismatch perfectly.
I am not a user of firewalld, so I cannot support this any further, but hopefully this gives you a direction to look into!
Ahhh that makes sense, I will try this when I get home, thank you
Ok so I just spent the last 7 hours ****ing around with this…
I ended up reinstalling the whole system (screwed the win11 efi while I was at it ) fresh titan install.
This install is using flatpak for surfshark…
So torrents still screwed with surfshark, bound to the adapter but just doesn’t work no matter where I connect too.
Disabled firewalld…no difference.
Disabled surfshark and torrents work, however this is just a test as need surfshark working.
Changed protocol to open VPN (from wire guard), can connect to 1 peer only and no seeds… something has changed with surfshark that is blocking qbittorrent from working… has anyone got any ideas ? I dont really want to go back to windows but 8 have lost so much time already to this
What happens when you let say use transmission instead of qbittorrent.
I use stremio with surfshark everyday, almost the whole day as background noise.
Sometimes I need to reconnect surfshark to another server to get better connection.
I suspect this too, It looks like surfshark behaves different from the past.
Update some testing:
I tested qbittorrent.
And I have also weird behavior.
It downloads but does not showup in tabs.
So I installed transmission. The download goes as expected.
It then appears to be your installation OR a combination of qbittorrent/surfshark or your location/ISP.
Reiterating that I have PIA/qbittorrent with no issue, but I’m certainly not on your ISP.
I’m convinced it’s surfshark, qbittorrent works as expected when surfshark is disabled and bound to want… however when bound to surfshark-wg it stalls the torrent,.
An update to surfshark has to be the cause
Reinstalling endeavour os indie however change the filesystem to btrfs so when I learn how to snapshot it should mitigate this in the future when they fix surfshark.
Right now I’m having to use w11 and Im not too happy about that …lol
I would try transmission instead of qbittorrent.
Or are you stuck with qbittorrent.
I will give transmission a try but it’s not qbittorrent thats misbehaving it’s deffo surfshark.