I wanted to install rtorrent so I could add and control my torrent downloads via ssh and on my mobile phone. To that end I added the testing and unstable repositories to my sources.list, hit apt-get update and afterwards apt-get install rtorrent.
And that's where all the trouble started. I was a bit shocked when I read something about "ftd" being deleted. But the installation continued anyway. rtorrent actually seemed to work quite fine. On the other hand I suddenly lost access to the web-interface. I can still access http://bubba/ but for bubba/web-admin/index.php I get a "was not found on this server" message. Oddly enough the index.php file was still in the right directory.
I thought that maybe a reboot would help solve this issue, given that during the rtorrent installation all the services running on the machine had been stopped and restarted.
Since restarting Bubba the LED hasn't stopped blinking. But I can still access http://bubba/ and I can also get to my Samba shares. One thing that I can however not do is ssh into the machine, Putty always gives me a "network error: connection refused" message.
To me it seems as though the rtorrent installation not only got rid of ftd but it apparently also messed up the startup process. I assume that the ssh-server for example simply hasn't been started.
Now the obvious question, what do I do?
Thanks in advance,
Christoph
P.S. "Never change a running system" - damn, I should have thought of this phrase a bit earlier...
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