FreeBSD Update WebUI failure

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omgtehrei
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FreeBSD Update WebUI failure

Post by omgtehrei »

I updated to 4.0.6 somewhat against my will in my FreeBSD environment and now the webUI isnt working
404: Not Found

Couldn't find Transmission's web interface files!

Users: to tell Transmission where to look, set the TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME environment variable to the folder where the web interface's index.html is located.

Package Builders: to set a custom default at compile time, #define PACKAGE_DATA_DIR in libtransmission/platform.c or tweak tr_getClutchDir() by hand.
The problem is how do I force it to read the environment variable? transmission is a nologin user; adding it to /etc/profile and /etc/login has done nothing. More on point how did an update break this so badly when it was configured by default?

rei@:~ % uname -a
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64
rei@:~ % transmission-daemon -V
transmission-daemon 4.0.6 (38c164933e)

Athlon 5151 with 8 GB of ram

Settings.json:

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{
    "alt-speed-down": 50,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 50,
    "announce-ip": "",
    "announce-ip-enabled": false,
    "anti-brute-force-enabled": false,
    "anti-brute-force-threshold": 100,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": false,
    "blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",
    "cache-size-mb": 256,
    "default-trackers": "",
    "dht-enabled": false,
    "download-dir": "/usr/home/rei/torrents/dl",
    "download-queue-enabled": true,
    "download-queue-size": 5,
    "encryption": 0,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "//Downloads",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
    "lpd-enabled": false,
    "message-level": 2,
    "peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
    "peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,
    "peer-limit-global": 512,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 256,
    "peer-port": 51410,
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,
    "peer-port-random-low": 49152,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
    "peer-socket-tos": "le",
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "pidfile": "/var/run/transmission/daemon.pid",
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "prefetch-enabled": true,
    "queue-stalled-enabled": true,
    "queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
    "ratio-limit": 2,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": false,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-host-whitelist": "",
    "rpc-host-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "rpc-password": "{b49b8ab43b12ab1f3f68d3d9673d43f4e6fceceegDsrw/Iw",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-socket-mode": "0750",
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-added-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-added-filename": "",
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "script-torrent-done-seeding-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-seeding-filename": "",
    "seed-queue-enabled": false,
    "seed-queue-size": 10,
    "speed-limit-down": 750,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "tcp-enabled": true,
    "torrent-added-verify-mode": "fast",
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": "022",
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "utp-enabled": true,
    "watch-dir": "/usr/home/rei/torrents/watch",
    "watch-dir-enabled": true
}
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