The way to solve "uid xxx: exited on signal 11" problem...

[kib82330]

Hi,
At first, I would like to say "Thank you" to people who make Transmission ,This software is really awesome!!!

Maybe somebody already has posted.
I want to share the way how to solve "uid xxx: exited on signal 11" problem...

I installed Transmission 2.51 in my FreeBSD 7.0 system.
Everytime I shutdown pc unnormally, and turn it on next time,
Transmission will give me a error message "uid xxx: exited on signal 11", then program exit.

I had google long times, but I had tried many way like "add transmission to wheel group","reinstall Transmission" ,it's not work.
But finally I found a way to solve this problem, I wish it could help someone who need.

1.First, please make sure in your /etc/rc.conf has those setting...

transmission_enable="YES"
transmission_user="transmission"
transmission_watch_dir="/the/watch/dir/you/want"
transmission_download_dir="/the/download/dir/you/want"


2.go to transmission home directory (the directory in my pc is located at '/usr/local/etc/transmission/home')
Rename setting.json to other name.

#mv setting.json _setting.json

then reboot the system.


3.After system is ready, the Transmission will generate a new setting.json automatically.
Open setting.json by any editor you favorite, ex. vi.
Then found the settings your need and edit it.
ex.
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.1*",
"blocklist-enabled": true,
"blocklist-url": "http://someblocklistsite.com/",

4. After all ,Please make sure the files and directories' permission under "/usr/local/etc/transmission/home"
was belong to "transmission:transmission" ?

5. The reboot the system again.

6. When system is ready, You should see Transmission from WebGUI .

Have fun!

Best regards,
kib82330

[blacke4dawn]

A question, why reboot the system instead of just restarting Transmission?

I haven't looked at any BSD system but my understanding is that it's close enough in basic handling to Linux systems that it's highly preferred to only restart what you need than it is to reboot the system.

[kib82330]

A question, why reboot the system instead of just restarting Transmission?

I haven't looked at any BSD system but my understanding is that it's close enough in basic handling to Linux systems that it's highly preferred to only restart what you need than it is to reboot the system.

I just want to make sure the Transmission could start normally and automatically at boot time ......

[blacke4dawn]

Fair enough.

I just don't like having the instruction to reboot the system when it's not really needed to do so, it's a "Windows solution".

[Soapm]

A question, why reboot the system instead of just restarting Transmission?

I haven't looked at any BSD system but my understanding is that it's close enough in basic handling to Linux systems that it's highly preferred to only restart what you need than it is to reboot the system.

I just want to make sure the Transmission could start normally and automatically at boot time ......

I've never used BSD either but with linux we can use shutdown -r now to reboot the system. Doing it this way is clean since it will shut down all running services before rebooting.

[blacke4dawn]

I've never used BSD either but with linux we can use shutdown -r now to reboot the system. Doing it this way is clean since it will shut down all running services before rebooting.

Sure it will but it's not needed. As far as I know both Linux and *BSD were designed to only need a system reboot when changing kernels or dealing with hardware errors/changes, the rest of the time it should be enough to just restart the affected software.