Issues with qBittorrent (password was not generated on install)

Posted by Seez

Hi (Tom) guys. I've had a couple of ups and downs with my install. It seems the installer didn't generate a password for qBittorrent, so instread this box shows up when clicking on the app: Problem is, when I click open I get this error code "Unauthorized"? So 2 things I wanna ask basically. 1. How do I fix this? 2. How can I make it generate a password for me? (in cases like this, where it fails during installation I guess?) Perhaps I need a clean install too lol. But yeah it seems that my WireGuard (NordVPN) also messes up with qBittorrent or something idk? SparkBox diagnostic info ------ URL: http://172.30.203.145:8443 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 License tier: unlicensed Containers: 15 running

2 replies

Seez wrote:

I did a fresh install and that seems to have fixed it I think 😢

tomspark wrote:

Glad the fresh install sorted it. For next time you don't need a full reinstall: the qBit admin password is saved at state/qbittorrent-admin-password.txt (and in the dashboard under Settings - Passwords), and sudo sparkbox restart media re-runs the init that seeds it — that clears the Unauthorized without nuking anything. The WireGuard/qBit interaction you noticed is expected: qBit routes through the VPN container, so if the VPN isn't up yet qBit's UI can look broken until it settles. You're on v1.6.115 which has the password-seed fixes; if it ever comes back, grab docker logs sb-qbittorrent and I'll take a look.