Patch shipped: v1.6.150 — qBittorrent heals itself if it ever gets stuck in a restart loop
Posted by tomspark
Follow-up to the qBittorrent restart-loop issue. We found that once qBit gets stuck restarting over and over, it can leave behind a leftover "lock" file — and that file then keeps it stuck on every future start, even after the original problem is long fixed. The only way out was deleting that file by hand. SparkBox now clears that leftover automatically when qBittorrent starts, so it recovers on its own. If you got caught in the restart loop from the recent update, run sudo sparkbox upgrade then sudo sparkbox up and it'll sort itself out. Big thanks to AvantMagus for chasing this all the way down with us.