At start up all trackers don't respond

[papibe]

Hi all, I'm running transmission-daemon 1.93 on Ubuntu Server 10.04. It was installed and updated (from 1.92) via apt-get. Every time I turn on the server, transmission-daemon starts automatically (standard installation).

However, when I go to check the web interface to see how things are doing, all trackers from all torrents (both completed and downloading) have this error:

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Announce error: tracker did not respond - Today 01:04:18 AM
Next announce in 26 min 41 seconds
Last Scrape: Today 01:06:33 AM

I have to wait the next announce (26mins!) to finally start getting the peers lists. PEX amd DHT are set, but they don't get peers fast enough. It is only when the announce event is successful, that I start getting acceptable download speeds.

Doing some experiments, I learned that if I paused all the torrents and then resume them back, it works too.

I wonder if there's a bug on the start up process of transmission-daemon. Or some configuration on the server, so the wait, or the manual intervention can be avoided.

I appreciate any comments and suggestions.
Thanks in advance.

[lazybones]

Interesting, that would explain some issues I have had after restarting the daemon. I have noticed In general many torrents perform much better if I pause them and start them again in general as well.

[papibe]

If you are having the same problem not only after rebooting but just after a service stop/start, puts my suspicions on transmission-daemon itself.

If it just failed on reboot, I would think there are possibilities that transmission-daemon could be initiated too early to access the Internet properly (thus the tracker time out).

Regards.

[papibe]

I understand that most transmission users are in the GUI side.... , but that much?

Is there anybody who help us?

I have to add to this post that 1 out 5 times, transmission-daemon crashes on start up (after the server in turn on).

Again, I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions.
Regards.

[gunzip]

Hi all, I'm running transmission-daemon 1.93 on Ubuntu Server 10.04. It was installed and updated (from 1.92) via apt-get. Every time I turn on the server, transmission-daemon starts automatically (standard installation).
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That's odd because i just now took a look at..

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywo ... ion-daemon

and the highest version at the moment is 1.92 .. I run Debian (not Ubuntu) so maybe i'm missing something but how did you manage to apt-get 1.93?

I remember in Debian "apt-get install transmission-daemon" would place an automatic startup script at /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon. Later i removed the transmission packages and started to compile from the source tarballs here and i noticed that no automatic startup scripts were installed.

I guess my point is that maybe the Ubuntu package maintainer should be notified of these problems with the init startup scripts as these have to be customized for the particular linux distribution you are running.

[papibe]

Thanks for replying.

how did you manage to apt-get 1.93?

I just update my server. Take a look:

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$ transmission-daemon --version
Transmission 1.93 (10621)

Did you add the scripts by yourself, or do you start the daemon manually any time?

maybe the Ubuntu package maintainer should be notified of these problems

I'll do that, to see if they have something to say.

Regards.