Transmission freezing after Yosemite upgrade

[Rayto]

So, we have people on Apple's forums reporting Transmission crashes with Yosemite, we have reports on MacUpdate that Transmission crashes with Yosemite, we have users here reporting Transmission crashes with Yosemite. Everyone is reporting the pretty much the same behavior (which is pretty specific once Transmission crashes).

Yet I see absolutely no indication that the Developers recognize there is a Transmission problem here. This is the only app I have under Yosemite, on 2 Macs, that is not behaving well. uTorrent and Deluge (which I am now using) both run just fine.

[Reid]

So, we have people on Apple's forums reporting Transmission crashes with Yosemite, we have reports on MacUpdate that Transmission crashes with Yosemite, we have users here reporting Transmission crashes with Yosemite. Everyone is reporting the pretty much the same behavior (which is pretty specific once Transmission crashes).

Yet I see absolutely no indication that the Developers recognize there is a Transmission problem here. This is the only app I have under Yosemite, on 2 Macs, that is not behaving well. uTorrent and Deluge (which I am now using) both run just fine.

I agree 100%. I fully understand that Transmission is free and open source, and the developers and other contributors donate their time to the project. I am very appreciative, and I hope the developers recognize that this is a wide spread issue.

Here is the only things that standout in my Console logs:
This I believe was after the display went to sleep.

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Transmission[XXXXX]: CoreAnimation: warning, deleted thread with uncommitted CATransaction; set CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS=1 in environment to log backtraces.

This I believe was after waking the display.

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kernel[0]: process Transmission[XXXXX] thread XXXXXXX caught burning CPU! It used more than 50% CPU (Actual recent usage: 99%) over 180 seconds ...

This is on Transmission 2.84

[Manual]

Anybody have Rogue Amoeba's InstantOn component installed? If so, I'd be interested to know if updating it solves the problem.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2837811 ... aster.html

[Reid]

It *appears* that this was caused by sorting transfers by activity. So far I have not had my aforementioned problem if I make sure to sort by another mean before the display goes to sleep for an extended period of time.

[Manual]

I'm almost positive that my client was sorted by date added, or possibly name. I stopped sorting by activity a long time ago because it was too resource-intensive.

[Rayto]

Perhaps this is a bit on the fringes of possible causes.

I switched to uTorrent a while ago. Too many crashes with Transmission. I run a Crucial MX500 ssd and forced garbage collection last night. This is the second time I've forced Garbage Collection and the second time uTorrent would not run. Needed to be reinstalled, no old torrents could be loaded. Said they were already there but, while the downloaded content was still there, the torrent files were not.

I run 24/7 so I don't need to force Garbage Collection as there's enough idle time. I'm wondering if the routine is cleaning out some files Transmission requires?

Be interesting to know if those with issues are running ssd's.

[Machist]

Hi,

Any fix in this issue?
I test latest nightly build, but same issue.. OS freezes and I need to do forced shutdown (in power swich).

[sarah]

Same for me, OS X 10.10.2, latest nightly, still a lot of crashes, I am forced to "Force Quit" Transmission with "Force Quit Applications" and restart my Mac (otherwise Transmission just bounce in the Dock and never open) so now I use uTorrent until the devs finally do something

[Manual]

Have Rogue Amoeba's InstantOn component installed? If so, I'd be interested to know if updating it solves the problem. Solved mine.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2837811 ... aster.html

[sarah]

Can we have any news from the official devs????

This is driving me crazy my mac is constantly crashing because of transmission!

I only have to click pause and resume to make Transmission crashing WTF??!!

Here's my latest crash report https://gist.github.com/anonymous/18209b8107b5a6d6ecf2

[sarah]

Please try the latest nightly and post a link to any reports you get.

Will do.

If you run a lot of third-party apps, try disabling some to see if there us an interference issue.

I don't.

[Machist]

Latest nightly tested and same issue..
Everything freeze, and transmission give error "Device not configured"

[Machist]

Please check your Message Log set to 'Debug' level (Command-3). Post relevant messages after carefully reading viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3415.

Fixed picture..
Can you please advise where message log is and how to change debug level?

[Machist]

Ok, sorry I don't figured what you mean first..
Transmission downloading torrent normally -> then remaining time grows.. 1 hour, 1day, 1, month, year etc..
Then programs start to freeze... -> now Transmission says "Device not configured" -> computer is totally freeze.
I´m not start transmission as login item.

Update OS X to 10.10.3
Now transmission cause kernel panic

No errors in Transmission log. This is last what it writes:
2015-04-09 05:54:17 +0000 torrent.c:3257 [Debug] xxxxxx.zip: [LAZY] checking just-completed piece 51


Console log:
9.4.2015 8.38.03,793 Transmission[945]: This host (/Applications/Transmission.app) has no CFBundleVersion! This attribute is required.
9.4.2015 8.38.03,803 Transmission[945]: (
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff971d003c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff975d776e objc_exception_throw + 43
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff971cfeed +[NSException raise:format:] + 205
3 Sparkle 0x000000010020890a load_dsa_key + 33568
4 Sparkle 0x0000000100204194 load_dsa_key + 15274
5 Sparkle 0x000000010020440c load_dsa_key + 15906
6 Sparkle 0x00000001002045a7 load_dsa_key + 16317
7 Sparkle 0x00000001001fdf2c Sparkle + 16172
8 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e2c3e4c -[NSURLDownload sendDidFinish] + 137
9 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e2c51cc _ZL23_NSURLDownloadDidFinishP14_CFURLDownloadPKv + 91
10 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e23d16f _ZN11URLDownload26_internal_downloadFinishedEv + 49
11 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e23f2da ___ZN11URLDownload30_internal_withClientSchedulingEU13block_pointerFvP22CFURLDownloadClient_V2E_block_invoke + 25
12 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e117cec _ZN19RunloopBlockContext13_invoke_blockEPKvPv + 72
13 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff970b8664 CFArrayApplyFunction + 68
14 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e117bad _ZN19RunloopBlockContext7performEv + 133
15 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e117998 _ZN17MultiplexerSource7performEv + 282
16 CFNetwork 0x00007fff8e1177ba _ZN17MultiplexerSource8_performEPv + 72
17 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff970eca01 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 17
18 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff970deb8d __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 269
19 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff970de1bf __CFRunLoopRun + 927
20 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff970ddbd8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
21 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8b70e56f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
22 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8b70e2ea ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431
23 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8b70e12b _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
24 AppKit 0x00007fff987b49bb _DPSNextEvent + 978
25 AppKit 0x00007fff987b3f68 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 346
26 AppKit 0x00007fff987a9bf3 -[NSApplication run] + 594
27 AppKit 0x00007fff98726354 NSApplicationMain + 1832
28 Transmission 0x0000000100002555 main + 110
29 Transmission 0x0000000100002084 start + 52
)
9.4.2015 8.39.10,033 Transmission[945]: assertion failed: 14D131: libxpc.dylib + 62495 [D35D0DB2-D7BD-3BE4-8378-062BFE545E1D]: 0x89
9.4.2015 9.01.00,639 Transmission[568]: assertion failed: 14D131: libxpc.dylib + 62495 [D35D0DB2-D7BD-3BE4-8378-062BFE545E1D]: 0x89

[sarah]

Even with the latest nightly I still have the same problem.

Here's my latest crash report https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cc38dd25d99f0d1d7873

The worst thing is that, after Transmission crashed, my whole Mac crash, and I can't even shutdown properly my Mac I have to do a Force Power Off otherwhise it'll be stuck indefinetly like this: