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When using Transmission torrents in 18.04, I'm getting "Error: File too large".

When copying large files (22GB for example) in Nautilus it first copies a part of it and then it just crashes. This started recently and I have no idea why.

I was on 4.15 kernel, now I've tried 4.19.2-041902-generic and this didn't change.

I can't find anyone else having this issue.

I tried qBittorrent, it just crashes when trying to load a large file. As for suggested Thunar, I can't actually install it, because of broken openssl problem which I wasn't able to get around despite a very long time investment. (/usr/local/lib/libssl.so.1.1: version `OPENSSL_1_1_1' not found)

I guess, I'll just give up and do a full reinstall. Sucks that the new Ubuntu is coming out in less than a month and this version didn't last till then, I guess..

EDIT:

Thanks for the tip! I removed my half-assed 1.1.1d openssl installation and OpenSSL-dependant programs started working normally!

As for copying large files, Thunar crashed while copying a 22Gb file saying

File size limit exceeded (core dumped)

and generated this crash report https://gist.github.com/ibmua/bc323bd461b614f8ed5e62b823331a66 , though, more simply, when I use cp in terminal on a large file it crashes with File size limit exceeded (core dumped) after copying 8,2 GB (8 191 991 808 bytes).

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  • 1) How large is large? 2) Please install Deluge for testing purposes only sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y deluge and see if the problem persists. 3) If so, for testing, please install Thunar with sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y thunar and see if the problem persists. - Please click edit and let us know the results of 1-3..
    – K7AAY
    Mar 27, 2020 at 22:37
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    Why is it looking for libraries in /usr/local/lib? Have you installed software manually, outside apt? If so, what software and which versions?
    – vidarlo
    Mar 28, 2020 at 21:37

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I have seen that happens when you have a limit imposed by the root user.

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    Oh, yes, sure! I changed /etc/security/limits.conf a while back trying to circumvent a ulimit on file size for terminal apps. And I inadvertently set up a new limit as a result, it seems. Raised that limit, rebooted into my user and it works fine now! Thanks a lot!
    – Íhor Mé
    Apr 1, 2020 at 17:12

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