Unable to communicate with qBittorrent.

Posted by YuriAddict

I keep getting this when starting up - [qbit-seed-limits] couldn't sign in to qBittorrent — skipping for now (retries on the next 'sparkbox up'; 'sudo sparkbox reset-password qbit' if it persists). I did sudo sparkbox reset-password qbit like it said because it kept happening which led to sonarr and radarr both saying - Unable to communicate with qBittorrent. Failed to authenticate with qBittorrent. It said if that happened re-sync them with - sudo /opt/sparkbox/sparkbox arr-bootstrap Which i did but sonarr and radarr still say they're unable to communicate with qBittorrent I dont know how to sync them back up

2 replies

Chris wrote:

Sorry for the trouble, YuriAddict! You did the right recovery steps, but there's a good chance your box is running an older SparkBox release where re-syncing the qBittorrent password like that didn't fully take -- Tom shipped a fix for exactly this a while back. Try: sudo sparkbox upgrade (not just 'update' -- upgrade pulls in the actual fix), then run sudo sparkbox arr-bootstrap again. If Sonarr/Radarr still show the auth error after that, run sudo sparkbox doctor and check state/arr-bootstrap.log on the box for the specific error -- paste what you find and we'll dig further.

tomspark wrote:

Heads up — 1.6.545 just shipped and should cover what you reported here. You can grab it straight from the dashboard: Settings → Updates → Update SparkBox. Let me know if that sorts it, or if you're still hitting it. (Prefer the terminal? sudo sparkbox upgrade — note update only refreshes app images and will not move you to a new release.)