help! worked fine before, not only get errors (MyBookLive)

[LincM]

I have a wd MyBookLive 3tb (pseudo) NAS and I installed transmission using some of the pointers on the forums here a couple of months back and it worked a treat.

After a little while, the occasional torrent would not load past the magnet point, and now I can't get any to work. I've tried recompiling and reinstalling and everything and to no avail.

I mostly use Transdroid to administer it, and juice SSH when running the commandline. Mine is the 2010 MyBookLive, so it's running Debian Lenny, and I'm pretty much just a copy and paster when it comes to commandline, so I don't have the skills to really troubleshoot this despite exhaustive efforts.

I understand that transmission's magnet handling is somewhat limited compared to utorrent or azureus. Is that what I sous be trying to deal with, or something else?

[buddard]

I'm having the exact same problem, here's some terminal output. It seems the port is open, it manages to connect to trackers and peers -- The download just won't start:

(Edit: Bad example, sorry about that!! As you can see in the updated printout below, the problem remains...)

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MyBookLiveDuo:~# /opt/bin/transmission-remote -t 2 --info
NAME
  Id: 2
  Name: Red+Hat+Enterprise+Linux+6.4+x32+&+x64
  Hash: 224ec81586e455a45235b8cbb7f38942b22bf713
  Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:224ec81586e455a45235b8cbb7f38942b22bf713&dn=Red%2BHat%2BEnterprise%2BLinux%2B6.4%2Bx32%2B%26amp%3B%2Bx64&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tracker.example.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

TRANSFER
  State: Downloading
  Location: /DataVolume/shares/Public/TR-Downloads
  Percent Done: nan%
  ETA: 0 seconds (0 seconds)
  Download Speed: 0 kB/s
  Upload Speed: 0 kB/s
  Have: None (None verified)
  Availability: None
  Availability: nan%
  Total size: None (None wanted)
  Downloaded: None
  Uploaded: None
  Ratio: None
  Corrupt DL: None
  Peers: connected to 60, uploading to 0, downloading from 60

HISTORY
  Date added:       Wed Dec 11 23:58:53 2013
  Date started:     Wed Dec 11 23:58:53 2013
  Downloading Time: 2 minutes, 22 seconds (142 seconds)

ORIGINS
  Public torrent: Yes
  Piece Count: 0
  Piece Size: None

LIMITS & BANDWIDTH
  Download Limit: Unlimited
  Upload Limit: Unlimited
  Ratio Limit: Default
  Honors Session Limits: Yes
  Peer limit: 60
  Bandwidth Priority: Normal

MyBookLiveDuo:~# transmission-remote --port-test
Port is open: Yes

MyBookLiveDuo:~# transmission-remote -si
VERSION
  Daemon version: 2.82 (14160)
  RPC version: 15
  RPC minimum version: 1

CONFIG
  Configuration directory: /root/.config/transmission-daemon
  Download directory: /DataVolume/shares/Public/TR-Downloads
  Listenport: 51413
  Portforwarding enabled: Yes
  uTP enabled: Yes
  Distributed hash table enabled: Yes
  Local peer discovery enabled: No
  Peer exchange allowed: Yes
  Encryption: preferred
  Maximum memory cache size: 4.00 MiB

LIMITS
  Peer limit: 240
  Default seed ratio limit: Unlimited
  Upload speed limit: Unlimited (Disabled limit: 100 kB/s; Disabled turtle limit: 50 kB/s)
  Download speed limit: Unlimited (Disabled limit: 100 kB/s; Disabled turtle limit: 50 kB/s)

MISC
  Autostart added torrents: Yes
  Delete automatically added torrents: No
MyBookLiveDuo:~# 

[buddard]

Sorry about that, please check my updated post above...

[buddard]

Thanks a lot, when I reviewed the logfile I found the problem: I had created a soft link from the torrents directory to a directory on the media volume, but I forgot to create the actual directory there... So while uploading/linking .torrent files directly through the webinterface worked fine, magnet links wouldn't work because it was impossible to save the .torrent file...

Thanks again!

[methylik]

I had created a soft link from the torrents directory to a directory on the media volume, but I forgot to create the actual directory there

Hi,

What directory is that and for what purpose?

I think I have the same problem with magnets, they stay at 0% (see this viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15520)
But I do have a Downloads link in the transmission directory pointing to a Downloads directory on a separate volume.

[buddard]

I'm referring to the /torrents subdirectory, where transmission puts .torrent files, i e not the actual files you're downloading. When you use magnet links, your bittorrent client will still need a .torrent file to find trackers etc, the difference is that instead of downloading it directly from the server, you'll download it from your peers. Since I had linked my torrents/ subdirectory to a directory that didn't exist, transmission could not save the .torrent file, and therefore it couldn't start downloading...

I think a difference in my case is that I got to 100% metadata, but the download itself stayed at 0%.

Did you try creating a log file as suggested by x190 above?