Invalid metadata entry "announce" crashes daemon 1.74 (8994)

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skygunner
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Invalid metadata entry "announce" crashes daemon 1.74 (8994)

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Running transmission-daemon 1.74 (8994) on FreeNAS 0.7 RC1 4735 i386 (FreeBSD 7.2)
I remember previous version if a torrent file is invalid to transmission, it will report as
"xxxxx.torrent is not a valid torrent file.
The torrent file cannot be opened because it contains invalid data." or similar.

But with this version I tried, invalid torrents files always crashes the daemon immediately after I tried to add it.
If I run it fore ground, message is

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[23:41:58.457] 777: Invalid metadata entry "announce"
Floating point exception
The torrent file can be found in the ticket fired here
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2415

See ticket 2384(fixed) Crashes when some invalid torrents are added http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2384

One thread talk about invalid metadata entry "announce" http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... y+announce

Another one http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... y+announce

I can't build the tar ball for 1.75 at this moment, so don't know if 1.75 has fixed this? I want to confirm this before I fire a bug to the developer.
Last edited by skygunner on Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
skygunner
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Re: Invalid metadata entry "announce" crashes daemon 1.74 (8994)

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Just found that these torrents files doesn't have a malformed tracker address, they don't have any tracker info/announce entry at all! Only rely on DHT and peer exchange. I think that's why they crashes the daemon.
After adding an announce entry to the torrent file (using BitComet and save as), it can be added to transmission-daemon without problem.
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Re: Invalid metadata entry "announce" crashes daemon 1.74 (8994)

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