Transmission on HP Media Vault mv2120

[Ortix]

Hi guys!

Currently i'm running transmission 1.7 on my NAS mv2120, but i want to upgrade. I installed it using IPKG but now IPKG is being a little bitch about everything and is giving me errors and what not about not being able to find the goddamn package. Can someone help me with installing it manually if possible?

I'm like pretty n00bt00b at linux. I barely know commands and stuff. I can change dirs and copy some stuff but that's about as far as it goes. Oh oh! I can also RUN stuff! How amazing is that!

[rb07]

Your easiest procedure is still using ipkg. What error messages are you seeing? Did you run "ipkg update" before "ipkg install transmission"?

Myself don't use ipkg, I build transmission, but that means I installed and built a lot of stuff, from the compiler to the pre-requisites (curl, libevent, openssl, and so on) so its a lot of work if you start from zero, even if it is as easy as "./configure && make && make install" which is not.

[Ortix]

your second paragraph produced a brick out of my butt... so i guess i'll be sticking with ipkg

Well i reinstalled ipkg (so i think) but whenever i start it by typing /opt/bin/ipkg nothing happens

it used to give me a list of options. I tried doing ipkg update but it wasn't able to find the packages. I followed the link it was giving me (ended with packages.. so /optware/something/something/packages/) and it was a 404 error. I typed in the link without the "packages" part of the link and ended up in the folder with all the ipkg packs or whatever u call them (ipk's?).

I used this tut to install ipkg. Then i downloaded the newest ipkg from the folder i just described above and used the same process to install that ipkg... i think i screwed something up.

http://k0lee.com/hpmediavault/MV2_FAQ/MV2_FAQ.html

i didn't do anything with my startup.sh

[rb07]

I haven't used those instructions, I read their Yahoo forum and those 2 guys are not very good (but they think they are)... so my guess without ever reading their stuff is that they mixed MV1 and MV2 bits and pieces commented on the Yahoo forum and came out with a mess.

For instance, you don't need to touch startup.sh (which was for MV1 anyway), they haven't understood that ipkg installs a "normal" startup sequence and you use /opt/etc/init.d/ scripts. Well, almost normal, it doesn't run the scripts on shutdown.

First things first, your ipkg doesn't work.

My guess is that you installed the wrong ipkg, i.e. not for ARM processor and the HP MV2. So I would start by re-installing it, the recommended (by the ipkg author) package for the HP MediaVault series 2 is http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa ... -5_arm.xsh I haven't checked if there is a newer version.

[Ortix]

wow rb07... you are a true hero! This installed SO EASILY. You deserve a big cookie!

But seriously... THANK YOU so much. Really appreciate it! Didn't lose any configs... just installed ipkg, re-installed transmission. Restarted the daemon and done!

[rb07]

Good to know it all worked.

If I remember correctly, the transmission installed by ipkg didn't include a start-up script, that means if your MV2 is turned off or just re-booted the daemon won't start. Has that changed?

[Ortix]

i never had that startup script. the tutorial explained how to modify it for that to work, but never did it. My NAS is always on.

[rb07]

You are misunderstanding what I said, the tutorial is wrong, at least is wrong for the MV2 it may work for the older one. In other words: don't touch the MV2's start-up script (I'm not even telling you the real name of that one

I was talking about a start-up script for transmission-daemon, which goes in /opt/etc/init.d, some people adapt the one in the Transmission Wiki some don't.