New Transmission 2.84 add-on for ReadyNAS Duo/NV+ (sparc)

tarobun wrote:
Hmmm... new version of RAIDiator... Let me try upgrading my box to see if anything breaks. Upgraded to 4.1.12 and Transmission running no prob.... so not sure what the problem is.

Sorry I should've said that it also happened for the version before, I tried to update to see if it would fix the problem.

tarobun wrote:
The transmission binaries are in /etc/frontview/addons/bin/TRANSMISSION You can start the transmission-daemon with the option --logfile <filename> to get it write out log messages.

Sorry not sure how to do this, what is the full command I need to run?

To run from command line enter:

cd /etc/frontview/addons/bin/TRANSMISSION
./transmission-daemon --logfile /var/tmp/transmission.log

To view log file:

cat /var/tmp/transmission.log

I am unable to start Transmission v2.80 either.

I had been having problems with v2.42 crashing (web interface and GUI dropping connection and Transmission apparently not) after my ReadyNAS Duo automatically updated to RAIDiator 4.1.12 (although, I had automatic updates deselected) - so I having tried downgrading back and forth with RAIDiator to 4.1.10 and reinstalling, uninstalling Transmission 2.42, I found this new version but cannot get it to work. After installing, I get similar results to those posted above - web interface and GUI unable to connect - at least with 2.42, they could connect and I could see active torrents for up to an hour before it crashed.

But I also have the problem that whenever I try to uninstall Transmission v2.80, I am asked for a username and password which does not match the one stored on my keychain; the default 'admin' 'password1'. I don't see any mention of a new default password.

Anyway, I have gone from a fully functioning Transmission earlier today to a dead Transmission in just about four hours. I'm particularly frustrated that downgrading back to the stone age in terms of RAIDiator and Transmission versions does nothing to help. Not happy.

I'm definitely no expert in this area but I think I've managed to sort the problem out on my ReadyNAS Duo.

I noticed a few possible problems.

Firstly, when I uninstalled Transmission there was an option to keep or delete data and settings. When I uninstalled with the 'c' share mounted, I noticed that none of the settings were in fact deleted when I opted for them to be. So, having uninstalled Transmission via Frontview, I manually deleted the Transmission folder from the 'c/addons-config' folder along with the BitTorrent folder in the media share - having first moved all completed downloads to another folder. Deleting the BitTorrent folder might have been unnecessary but there was some behaviour which made me suspect that the permissions on this folder may have been corrupted. This done, I then reinstalled Transmission (v2.80).

Secondly, the torrent directory path seemed to be, by default, '/var/local//Downloads' as per rybackisback's settings.json file. This was shown in both the web interface and GUI and didn't look familiar to me - only that I have opened a lot of torrent files and whilst I couldn't remember what the path had been, I didn't recognise the path either. I have backups of previous settings.json files for various configurations and checked what they said and sure enough the path was '/media/BitTorrent' which immediately looked familiar. So, I changed the setting in the web interface.

It may have been a double barrelled shotgun approach to a minor coding problem but since having done this, I have downloaded 1.5GB of data without a disconnection.

As mentioned at the start, I'm no expert so I can't back up my approach with anything other than saying that it worked for me.

It looks like upgrading from Transmission 2.42 to this Transmission add-on is a no-no. Sounds like there are conflicting configuration that screws up both installs. :( (eg. /c/addons-config)

It seems the best approach is to fully uninstall the old, delete the config directory, and then install this add-on. Once you're on this add-on, updating is straightforward and can be done over the existing version.

Just a fyi - the default download dir is /var/local/Downloads and there is no username and password with this add-on. If you are prompted for them then the old version was not fully uninstalled.

/var/local/Downloads sounds like a path on the OS partition. You shouldn't download to this directory.

tarobun wrote:

It looks like upgrading from Transmission 2.42 to this Transmission add-on is a no-no. Sounds like there are conflicting configuration that screws up both installs. :( (eg. /c/addons-config) It seems the best approach is to fully uninstall the old, delete the config directory, and then install this add-on. Once you're on this add-on, updating is straightforward and can be done over the existing version. Just a fyi - the default download dir is /var/local/Downloads and there is no username and password with this add-on. If you are prompted for them then the old version was not fully uninstalled.

Well, having taken the radical action that I did, my Transmission v2.80 and RAIDiator 4.1.12 are still working having previously crashed very shortly after every start. Given that for me Transmission 2.42 did not work with RAIDiator 4.1.12 anyway - maybe for the same reasons - I'm just glad to have any version of Transmission working again.

The path quoted is not quite what mine had which was '/var/local//Downloads' which has // - I don't know what that means but it doesn't look right.

Yes, the path does look like a Mac path but as has been said, it comes up by default.

It's a Linux path.

A path such as /c/media/BitTorrent or something like that would be better.

Updated to version 2.81

Changes:
All Platforms

• Fix 2.80 bug that showed the incorrect status for some peers


• Better handling of announce errors returned by some trackers

Web Client

• Slightly better compression of png files

Also changed default download dir to /c/media/BitTorrent

tarobun wrote:
To run from command line enter: cd /etc/frontview/addons/bin/TRANSMISSION ./transmission-daemon --logfile /var/tmp/transmission.log To view log file: cat /var/tmp/transmission.log

Is now working :) Thanks for the help

In the log was:

Couldn't bind port 51413 on 0.0.0.0: Address already in use (Is another copy of Transmission already running?)

No version of Transmission was running, but the version that comes with the NAS was installed, so I deleted that and it worked.

One problem though, I'm unable to delete any files/folders that transmission has downlaoded, permission error. Permissions are nobody/nogroup.

Is there naything I can do?

thanks