Transmission add-on crashing on ReadyNas Duo

Thanks JarnoG. I appreciate your patience with me. Your explanation makes a lot of sense.

I attempted once again to install 2.42 with the following settings:
"cache-size-mb": 2,
"peer-limit-global": 100,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 10,

So far so good (keeping my fingers crossed).

As far as thinking I needed the higher peer limits, I can probably get by without it.

Thanks again for all your help. It's much appreciated.

I was successful in adding back all my previous torrents. Smooth sailing. And then... After adding just one more newly created torrent, the dreaded

I then disable Transmission, changed to the following settings:
"peer-limit-global": 50,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 5,

Still no go. I then deleted from the queue all my torrents and attempted to add just the one newly created torrent again. Within seconds the dreaded message appeared again! To say the least this is maddening. I have never ever experienced anything like this with 2.22.

Any final suggestions?

To me it seems that you've got one torrent that gives the problem, while all the others work just fine. When you're in the webGUI of Transmission, go to the settings window and disable PEX, DHT and LPD on the Peers tab and UTP on the Network tab. Those are extra services that Transmission uses to improve downloading. It might be that the torrent uses one of these services which then causes Transmission to crash.

I did have PEX enabled. Nothing else. I've disabled PEX and Removed all torrents. Then I opened two small torrents. They verified okay and everything looked fine. Then I created a third 1.5GB torrent and attempted to open it. The dreaded Connection Failed message appeared almost immediately.

UPDATE: The problem does indeed appear to be with one particular offending torrent, or at least that's where I'm at now in my troubleshooting.

I create my torrents with Transmission for Mac. The weird thing is I can create it and even open it in Transmission-Mac, and it verifies fine. However, after I reinstalled Transmission 2.22 on my Duo I noticed that it wouldn't verify to any more than 93.7%. What I've narrowed it down to are the file names contained within the torrent. Some of them are accented characters. The Duo handles that just fine. In fact, I'd originally used Transmission on the Duo to download the same files from another torrent site. I wanted to reshare them to a different (private) torrent site, so I took the same exact unmodified files and created a new torrent to upload to the new site. That's where the problems began. Apparently Transmission-Duo has no trouble downloading torrents where the included files have accented characters. But trying to create a new torrent with the same files and have Transmission-Duo verify them will choke the verification process on the accented character names.

What I don't understand is why 2.22 at least functions and shows that the file won't fully verify apparently due to the file names (changing the file names to un-accented characters resolves that problem). However, 2.42 chokes and dies within seconds of opening the torrent file and commencing the verify process.

I'm out of options, maybe someone else has a few more suggestions. It seems to me that there's a problem with only a few of the torrents you created while most is working just fine. If it is not to much of a problem, you could just stop seeding those few torrents.

Thanks JarnoG for all your help. I edited my previous post. You may have missed those comments.

I'm back to 2.22. I like the features of 2.42, and I'd like to be able to use it. But it's far too buggy for me. I may try 2.5 when it's available for the Duo. Maybe they'll have resolved some of these weird problems.

I hadn't read your edits and I wouldn't know why 2.42 would have a problem with those filenames if 2.22 doesn't... Anyway, I'm glad that it's solved

Hi everybody

Just read all the thread because I have the same problem with Transmission 2.42.

Everything began fine : installation was OK, using web interface was ok, and I downloaded few files.
But regularly, i have a "Connection failed" error message and the service stops (green light turns to gray).

My question is : does 2.22 supports magnet url to set the torrent file ?

Hi see this post

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=61555

I've put up my settings file. No issues with 2.42.

Sometimes I feel I is a real noob, but how should I edit the \\IpOfNAS\addons-config\Transmission\transmission-daemon\settings.json ?
Should I logon vid SSH, and then go to that directory. But then...