Is it my imagination, or are all the Leap Torrents incorrectly set up on the download page:
https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/#download
Would a couple of people please check this, so if they really are broken, we can get them fixed.
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Tried only the first one, it lacks the .torrent extension.
Not even sure it suffices to add it, since I did but it still won’t start downloading after a couple of minutes.
Something’s wrong
Probably best to submit a ticket to admin (at) o.o - but do note that 15.6 isn’t yet released (release date is June 12 as I recall).
So it may be just in flux while the RC wraps up and the GM is being prepared.
Torrents are only added to the tracker as part of the final release process.
It’s tracked with action #132044: Add torrent to tracker and find external seeders - openSUSE Leap 15.6 - openSUSE Project Management Tool - it talks about seeding but with previous releases also included adding it to the tracker: action #114316: find external BT seeders - openSUSE Leap 15.5 - openSUSE Project Management Tool.
Edit: updated the ticket title.
Hmmmm, That would make sense. Upon further examination, I see the 15.5 torrents don’t work either–and those should have been working for a year.
They are. Which exact file do you have an issue with?
That’s weird, but that’s why I asked someone tho check me. Now I’m getting a proper torrent file; but what I had been getting was missing the .torrent after the .iso, so the wrong application would open (an iso burner app, like k3b or etcher, rather than ktorrent or qBittorrent).
Glad to see it’s working now.
I can confirm, going to https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/ and selecting to Download → “Torrent File” for the x86_64 image will offer a file for download that has .iso extension, but in reality it is a .torrent file.
I renamed the downloaded file from openSUSE-Leap-15.6-DVD-x86_64-Build709.1-Media.isoto openSUSE-Leap-15.6-DVD-x86_64-Build709.1-Media.iso.torrent and opened it with Transmission and it was added and downloaded without issues.
This is confusing but after adding the .torrent extension everything worked as expected.
Are you sure? I get a fail message from ktorrent:
Stalled
Unable to contact a tracker.
It doesn’t appear to be a firewall issue, turning off the firewall made no difference.
It could well be your provider or something upstream blocking it.
I quickly tried the x86_64 torrents, both of them gave me an error:
Tracker gave an error: torrent not found
However, as you can see in the screenshot, if there are peers, it will start downloading anyway.
Last time I tried, I did not have this error though.
I am seeding here the Leap 15.6 since the publication of Leap 15.6 without any errors.
I installed qbittorrent (and all its, significant, dependencies); after a moment’s hesitation, it started downloading. But Ktorrent continues to say “Unable to contact a tracker.” So, I grabbed the torrent for Kubuntu, with its 443 seeders; it’s not reliably working on Ktorrent either. So for me, this is a ktorrent failure. I’ll delete it, and keep Qbittorrent.
Now, who has access to fix the file suffix on the download pages (adding the .torrent suffix)?
I’m trying to download openSUSE-Leap-15.6-DVD-x86_64-Build710.3-Media.iso using the torrent. It tells me Tracker gave an error: torrent not found. Transmission (QT) 4.0.6
Transmission has had issues for me over the years. Try installing qbittorrent (which is also Qt), it works much more reliably for me.