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Failed to start Transmission daemon

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 7:33 am
by olatue
hi,

I'm a newbie transmission, i installed transmission on my centos using EPEL repository and followed yum install. but, i'm having an error whilst starting the transmission service. please help me. Logs below,

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status transmission-daemon.service
● transmission-daemon.service - Transmission BitTorrent Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-07-10 08:25:15 BST; 12s ago
Process: 2575 ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error (code=exited, status=127)
Main PID: 2575 (code=exited, status=127)

Jul 10 08:25:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Transmission BitTorrent Daemon...
Jul 10 08:25:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Jul 10 08:25:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start Transmission BitTorrent Daemon.
Jul 10 08:25:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit transmission-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jul 10 08:25:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service failed.

Re: Failed to start Transmission daemon

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:12 am
by olatue
Hi x190,

I tried your command but getting an error

[root@localhost log]# /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-error
/usr/bin/transmission-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libnatpmp.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Please help, Am i missing any steps ?

Thanks.

Re: Failed to start Transmission daemon

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 12:25 am
by bigcheze
I was fighting with this issue as well. It seems that the Transmission package on the EPEL repo fails to specify libnatpmp as a dependancy.
Run 'yum install libnatpmp' and restart the transmission service and you should be all set.