"Not a bencoded file" error on tracker upload

[Augustulus]

Howdy y'all.  After I updated to the latest edition of Qbittorrent I have been getting this error on Waffles.  Is there an easy fix for this issue?

[Seigo]

I experience problems with created torrents aswell. Latest v3.0.6 for Windows does not seem to create correct torrent files.
I've ha no problems with previous versions. I had to create a new torrent file with uTorrent which worked properly.

uTorrent created torrent file was almost double the size of the qBitorrent created file, something is not right..
Any torrents I have created with qBitorrent v3.0.6 have been so far been rejected by trackers because of errors.

[sledgehammer_999]

I can confirm. You cannot even add it to qbt. qbt rejects the torrent with various messages about the bencoded data. I suspect a bug in libtorrent. I will make a bug report in qbt.

[sledgehammer_999]

issue #161

[Tomaso]

This might already be fixed..

[quote="libtorrent trunk"]
* optimized the torrent creator optimizer to scale significantly better with more files
[/quote]

[quote="libtorrent commits"]
merged make_torrent update from RC_0_16
merged make_torrent fixes from RC_0_16
[/quote]

[samsat]

Yes I can confirm this bug. Thank you for the fix. 

[Tomaso]

[quote="samsat"]Thank you for the fix.[/quote]

Don't thank me, I'm only quoting the libtorrent changelog.
I don't even know if those fixes will do anything for this exact problem, it just sounds like they could.

[sledgehammer_999]

I will try out the RC_0_16 branch and report back if it has been fixed upstream.

[sledgehammer_999]

Nope. It isn't fixed in the RC_0_16 branch.

[Seigo]

Thanks for the input! Looks like I have to go back to v3.0.4/3.0.5 until the issues are fixed.

[Tomaso]

[quote="Seigo"]
Thanks for the input! Looks like I have to go back to v3.0.4/3.0.5 until the issues are fixed.
[/quote]

sledgehammer_999's qBittorrent v3.0.5 was built on the same libtorrent version as v3.0.6, which is v0.16.4.
..so if going back to v3.0.5 fixes it, then this is probably a qBittorrent bug.
qBittorrent v3.0.4 was built on libtorrent v0.16.3 though.

[sledgehammer_999]

And I was coming here to comment on the same thing. qBittorrent 3.0.5 works so something changed in 3.0.6 and introduced a regression.
It probably involves the fix for the issue #133

[sledgehammer_999]

I updated the bug report. Let's see what Chris thinks.

[sledgehammer_999]

I have probably fixed it. Awaiting for Chris to accept the fix.

[Seigo]

[quote="sledgehammer_999"]
I have probably fixed it. Awaiting for Chris to accept the fix.
[/quote]

Excellent! Good job!