rtorrent keeps erroring out with "Could not create download"

[Red Squirrel]

Magnet links work fine, but any torrent file I try to download I get this error:

"Could not create download, the input is not a valid torrent"

Any way I can fix that? Not finding anything on Google.

Running rtorrent 0.9.2 on latest version of Debian (not sure how to check version). Not sure if this helps:

p2puser@p2p:~$ uname -a
Linux p2p 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is a brand new install, there's nothing else that has been changed on the system other than installing rtorrent and rtgui. Even without the GUI I get that same error. Magnet links work though.

 

[lilfiend]

sounds like a permissions issue, chmod 755 /your/download/directory/here/ should do it. I think 655 would work also but don't quote me on that, its been a while since i've played with linux

 

[TCM2]

 U   G   O
rwx|rwx|rwx
421 421 421

U - user
G - group
O - other

Easy to remember. All you need is for the file to be readable and maybe writable by the user, so mode 644. Directories need to be executable to be listable, so 755 for them.