Comments on: Transmission Install/Configuration on Ubuntu 10.04 Server (Lucid Lynx)

By: Torleif

Torleif — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:40:13 +0000

Thanks Mike!
I use transmission-deamon 1.77 on my debian lenny server. do you know if this version support incomplete-dir and watch-dir?
I have set the incomplete-dir, but it does not use it.

Thanks

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:32:25 +0000

Torleif,

In Ubuntu, you need to be root or sudo to start and stop the daemon. You start/stop the daemon as root, but it doesn’t run as root. The init script makes it run under “debian-transmission”. I’m not really sure if it works exactly the same way in Debian, but I bet that it does.

By: Torleif

Torleif — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:03:40 +0000

Hi
When I run transmission-deamon in debian, do I have to be root to start and stop the deamon? Should I change user to “debian-transmission” and then start the deamon?
If I start it as root, will it run as user “debian-transmission” or “root”

Thanks!

By: Bryson

Bryson — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:38:17 +0000

Thank you!!! I spent an hour and a half trying to figure out why /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json wasn’t working when I edited it!

By: karl

karl — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:28:08 +0000

Call me a dumb-ass…. I forgot to change this:
“rpc-enabled”: false,

By: karl

karl — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:20:16 +0000

Hey there, thanks for the post. I have an problem where the daemon starts but doesn’t bind to port 9091 so I can’t connect to it. Using Lucid.
daemon.log doen’t log “transmission-daemon: RPC Server Serving RPC and Web requests on port 9091 (rpc-server.c:945)” which I have seen on other machines running it.
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Karl

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:40:45 +0000

@qb96:

I’m glad you figured it out (at least, sort of). You really had me stumped! I haven’t run Kubuntu for a while, and right now I’m just down to the server version, which I run headless on my old Fit-PC Slim.

By: qb96

qb96 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:00:34 +0000

sloved … sort of
I was a victim of the ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/543506

I prevents starting some/all init.d scripts. You can check if you experience this issue by checking runlevel:
# runlevel
if it returns ‘N 2′, then you’re OK, if it returns ‘unknown’, then you may have the same problem. For me the workaround was removing ureadahead package.

By: qb96

qb96 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:41:08 +0000

I run kubuntu 10.04 with a fresh install of transmission-daemon package. I’m stuck trying to setup transmission-daemon on my nettop PC.
The problem is that after reboot the deamon is down with no sign of any attempt of launching it in /var/log/daemon.log.

My init.d symlinks seems fine:

# find /etc/rc* | grep transmission
/etc/rc0.d/K20transmission-daemon
/etc/rc1.d/K20transmission-daemon
/etc/rc2.d/S20transmission-daemon
/etc/rc3.d/S20transmission-daemon
/etc/rc4.d/S20transmission-daemon
/etc/rc5.d/S20transmission-daemon
/etc/rc6.d/K20transmission-daemon

I can start the service by hand without any problem:
# service transmission-daemon start
* Starting bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon [ OK ]
# ps aux | grep transmission-daemon
112 6830 0.0 0.1 33096 2348 ? Ssl 22:38 0:00 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon –config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info

Any ideas?

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:10:45 +0000

What a great post! I’m new to Ubuntu server so the instructions took me a little bit longer than average to follow, but I got it working and now it works perfectly! Absolutely great, thanks so much for the post!

Just from my experience, when copying the above example for ‘settings.json’ you may want to paste into gedit first, before copying and pasting into nano. Pasting directly from the web browser into nano seemed to give me problems for some reason. Also, the ‘watch-dir’ seemed to need ‘\/’ on the end of it before it would work (“watch-dir: ” “\/mydir\/Torrents\/”). Cheers