Transmission BT stops all torrents immediately after starting them

[guss77]

After Transmission daemon (2.84, installed on Ubuntu 15.10 from system packages) has been running for a while (usually a day or two), it will pause all torrents.

If I click "resume all" in the web interface (or use the CLI for the same operation), it will start them, then after a few seconds pause all of them again. Just restarting doesn't solve the problem. If I stop the service and leave it down for some time (more than a couple of minutes, but I don't know the correct time) then start it again, it behaves correctly for another stretch of time.

Here is my settings.json:

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{
    "alt-speed-down": 200, 
    "alt-speed-enabled": false, 
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 1020, 
    "alt-speed-time-day": 62, 
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false, 
    "alt-speed-time-end": 180, 
    "alt-speed-up": 150, 
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0", 
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::", 
    "blocklist-enabled": false, 
    "blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist", 
    "cache-size-mb": 20, 
    "dht-enabled": true, 
    "download-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads", 
    "download-limit": 100, 
    "download-limit-enabled": 0, 
    "download-queue-enabled": true, 
    "download-queue-size": 4, 
    "encryption": 0, 
    "idle-seeding-limit": 240, 
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false, 
    "incomplete-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/Incomplete", 
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false, 
    "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true, 
    "lpd-enabled": true, 
    "max-peers-global": 200, 
    "message-level": 3, 
    "open-file-limit": 32, 
    "peer-congestion-algorithm": "", 
    "peer-id-ttl-hours": 6, 
    "peer-limit-global": 80, 
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 20, 
    "peer-port": 12056, 
    "peer-port-random-enabled": 1, 
    "peer-port-random-high": 12400, 
    "peer-port-random-low": 12000, 
    "peer-port-random-on-start": true, 
    "peer-socket-tos": "lowcost", 
    "pex-enabled": true, 
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true, 
    "preallocation": 0, 
    "prefetch-enabled": 1, 
    "proxy": "", 
    "proxy-auth-enabled": false, 
    "proxy-auth-password": "", 
    "proxy-auth-username": "", 
    "proxy-enabled": false, 
    "proxy-port": 80, 
    "proxy-type": 0, 
    "queue-stalled-enabled": true, 
    "queue-stalled-minutes": 60, 
    "ratio-limit": 2, 
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false, 
    "rename-partial-files": false, 
    "rpc-authentication-required": true, 
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0", 
    "rpc-enabled": true, 
    "rpc-password": "ZXCVBNMASDFGHJKL", 
    "rpc-port": 9091, 
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/", 
    "rpc-username": "ASDFGHJKL", 
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1", 
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false, 
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": false, 
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false, 
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "", 
    "seed-queue-enabled": true, 
    "seed-queue-size": 100, 
    "speed-limit-down": 3000, 
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": true, 
    "speed-limit-up": 200, 
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true, 
    "start-added-torrents": true, 
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false, 
    "umask": 2, 
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14, 
    "utp-enabled": true
}

Also see here a video showing the behavior: http://share.geek.co.il/transmission/tr ... -stops.mp4
and see here a the log from --log-debug during that time: http://share.geek.co.il/transmission/transmission.log

[guss77]

Apparently you have an issue with a (un)mounted drive?

I had repartitioned my drive a few months back, and had to recopy downloaded files into the download directory (actually hard linking them) and have not done so for all torrents. That''s OK for me, and I will add the rest over time. Do you think this could be the cause?

[guss77]

As I've stated, I'm aware that some torrents are broken, and I'm OK with that.

What troubles me is that the non-broken torrents (check the screen cast) keep pausing all the time, even though all "stop after X happens" flags are disabled.

[guss77]

BTW - this still happens to me all the time even now that there are no broken torrents, if anyone has any suggestions as to what to check, I'd appreciate any feedback.

The full details again:
- I have about 50 torrents, all of them are in "seeding" state.
- None are above the max seed ratio, or the max seed ratio is disabled (same behavior for both situations)
- There are peers downloading from me (I can see upload speed meter at about the max I've set in the "speed settings").
- Than at some point, all the torrents are paused. If I try to click "resume all", Transmission pauses them all again within seconds. I can repeat the process, and usually after a few minutes (!!) of going back and forth, Transmission agrees to let the seeds run. After a few hours (don't know for sure, as I'm not reviewing it all the time) it does this again.

At this point I have a cronjob that runs every minute to resume paused torrents.