Transmission

Ok,

it looks like this is caused by bad version of Transmission that ships as the default package of Ubuntu 16.04. by adding the PPA for transmission and updating you get 2.92 which seems stable and resolves a few problems that I was having.

found this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734467 that indicates that the defaults file is ignored. journalctl -b | grep trans pointed out that it was trying to load the settings.json from the home directory (which doesn't exist) per the bug report I updated the .servic...

now I'm really confused. if I start transmission from /etc/init.d.transmission-daemon start it reads to correct config file. but if I start transmission service transmission-daemon start the original instance starts on port 9091 (I'm aware that this is happening because I changed the start script in...

as far as I know I shut off all idle timers and queues. still after a few minutes the torrent switches from seeding to finished. also I confirmed port Fwd is configured and tested that port is open here is my settings file. did i miss something?? { "alt-speed-down": 50, "alt-speed-ena...

so for anyone else who ran into this issue I did the following: looks as the default init.d script wasn't reading the correct config file and I was unable to find a log that stated what file if any it was using. from the wiki I used the provided daemon script. renaming the default 16.04 script and u...

Ubuntu 16.04 clean install from apt-get stopped transmission-daemon and update /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json (for testing changed RPC port to 9093) started and tested no response on 9093 on 9091 get message saying to enable rpc (it is). /etc/defaults/trannsmission-daemon states: # defaults ...