Prompt to update database message on upgrade does not make sense for a service #3141

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opened 2026-02-21 16:36:14 -05:00 by deekerman · 4 comments

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2026-02-21 16:36:14 -05:00

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Originally created by @dsm1212 on GitHub (Sep 29, 2015).

I built/installed 3.3 beta of qbittorrent-nox. I have an init.d script which starts qbittorrent-nox piping output to /var/log/qbittorrent-nox.log using systemctl. Within seconds my root partition was full because this log contained a continuous reprompt for the question about whether the data files should be converted to the new version. I run this from a non-login account so I actually can't run interactively using these config files very easily. I had to modify the init.d script to pipe yes into qbittorrent-nox. I guess this is somewhat self-inflicted using systemctl, but this was pretty nasty to recover from. Honestly I don't think the prompt is necessary. If I'm running it, just upgrade the files. Copy them aside maybe so the originals don't get lost. Much better in my opinion.

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Originally created by @dsm1212 on GitHub (Sep 29, 2015). I built/installed 3.3 beta of qbittorrent-nox. I have an init.d script which starts qbittorrent-nox piping output to /var/log/qbittorrent-nox.log using systemctl. Within seconds my root partition was full because this log contained a continuous reprompt for the question about whether the data files should be converted to the new version. I run this from a non-login account so I actually can't run interactively using these config files very easily. I had to modify the init.d script to pipe yes into qbittorrent-nox. I guess this is somewhat self-inflicted using systemctl, but this was pretty nasty to recover from. Honestly I don't think the prompt is necessary. If I'm running it, just upgrade the files. Copy them aside maybe so the originals don't get lost. Much better in my opinion. thanks