Transmission running...but not loaded?

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21

Hi

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
armv7-transmission-app-osmc is already the newest version (3.0.0-2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.

Is this the same as installing from MyOsmc ?

Thanks

22

Yes.

23

Hi,

Please provide the output of:

sudo systemctl start transmission

&

systemctl status transmission

Thanks Tom.

25

Hi,

Nothing

* transmission.service - Transmission BitTorrent Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/transmission.service; enabled; vendor >
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-05-04 09:16:23 CEST; 1 day 7h ago
    Process: 228 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 445 (transmission-da)
     Status: "Idle."
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 975)
        CPU: 9min 45.141s
     CGroup: /system.slice/transmission.service
             `-445 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error --allowed *.*.*.*

May 04 09:15:55 osmc systemd[1]: Starting Transmission BitTorrent Daemon...
May 04 09:16:23 osmc systemd[1]: Started Transmission BitTorrent Daemon.
26

Hi,

Looks like its running to me.

What happens if you go to ip.of.rasp.pi:9091 in you web browser?

Thanks Tom.

27

it is running. And the ip.of.rasp.pi:9091 opens the transmission webinterface.

But that’s the problem :sweat_smile:

sudo apt-get -y remove transmission-daemon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'transmission-daemon' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
28

Hi,

Is the debian provided package, but we recommend using the osmc package. Which is the one that is installed by store.

Regards Tom.

29

I see. So the -daemon version is the Debian version and the non -daemon is the OSMC, right ?

Funnily, based on the status, it seems like the transmission-daemon is active. But impossible to remove.

I just went to OSMC App Store and removed the Transmission that was installed.

And now all seem to be gone.

Weird if -daemon is the Debian but could not be removed. And the OSMC could be removed.
I don’t understand what happens…

30

Hi,

They are both transmission-daemon, just osmc packages a newer version than the one provided by debian.

Regards Tom.

31

Hi, thank you. Now it seems to be up and running again… Thank you all for your help !!

I would have another question related to transmission.
I used to conditionally allow Transmission to run, as long as my VPN is running. If the VPN goes down, so does Transmission.

This was setup by inserting some command into /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service but now that I have installed it from OSMC, this file is empty.

Any idea how to do what I want to do ? Thank you

32

Hi,

For the osmc package the file is:

/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service

But you shouldn’t actaully modify this file directly as changes could be over written by an update to transmission. The easy way is to create a copy and modify the new file, copy the file to:

/etc/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service`

But its probably better to use a drop-in:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd#Drop-in_files

Thanks Tom.

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