If you noticed Ive been having much trouble with transmission. I have spent a long time working on this and in my effort to fix the final bits I seem to have taken many steps back.
I now get the 403 error when trying to get into the web access.
Here are the key readouts that I think I need to provide for some help:
/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon - This has osmc:osmc and 777
NAME=transmission-daemon
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
USER=osmc
STOP_TIMEOUT=30
/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json - this has osmc:osmc and 777
whitelist: false (also tried with true)
whitelist ip - 192.168..
umask - 2 (I was having issues with files being written with transmission-daemon as owner not osmc)
incomplete and complete directories set
/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service - this has osmc:osmc and 777
[Unit]
Description=Transmission BitTorrent Daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
User=osmc
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
ps aux | grep transmission
osmc 1293 0.1 0.6 27128 4828 ? Ssl 23:44 0:00 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error
I have also tried reboot, restart and reload and finally tried to purge transmission but had a failure of uninstall. Is deluge or rtorrent any easier to use!?
Did you install Transmission via the App Store? This is the recommended method of installation
A purge should rid everything. Make sure you auto remove afterwards
I did install via the app store. I am trying to purge via the command line but hitting this error:
sudo apt-get purge transmission-daemon
Reading package lists… Error!
E: Splitting of file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie-updates_InRelease failed as it doesn’t contain all expected parts 0 1 0
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
I think you would do remove --purge
Run an apt-get update first
You can always dpkg-r it
Uninstall worked fine with the remove option thanks. Now when installing via app store I get error installing armv7-tranmission-app-osmc (2.8.4.-11) please repor this on the OSMC forum
http://paste.osmc.io/eturuviyuz
Why are you trying to re-install if you just purged the App Store version?
transmission-daemon is only one part of Transmission.
You didn’t upload the APT log, which is the only needed log.
The easiest resolution is a fresh install.
I just reflashed my SD card with a half configured version in the end, but changes to the tranmission-daemon.service (user to osmc) and the umask values in the json seem to have landed me back in the same position.
I am going to reload now and change the umask value, leave the tranmission-daemon.service use as it is and run the following sudo usermod -a -G osmc debian-transmission
I take it that will run transmission as debian-transmission but add that user to the osmc group allowing it to act as osmc for files and operations that need osmc permissions.
I then just need to know, should my download directories be owned by debian-transmission or osmc?