Troubleshooting • Trouble getting Transmission configured on fresh Bookworm install

Hi all --

I just did a clean install of Bookworm on my RPi 4.0 and am having trouble getting Transmission to read the customized settings. Instead, it keeps reading in the default settings.

• Made sure I stop `transmission` before making any edits:

  Code:

  sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stopsudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.jsonsudo systemctl daemon-reloadsudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start

• Checked runtime settings and confirmed the defaults are being used:

  Code:

  transmission-daemon --dump-settings

• Made sure my settings look correct, and that the `rpc-password` is encrypted:

  Code:

  more /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

• Turned on logging:
  
  Stopped Transmission, then:

  Code:

  sudo touch /var/log/transmission.logsudo chown debian-transmission /var/log/transmission.logsudo chmod 644 /var/log/transmission.log

  Then edited `/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service` to change this line:/

  Code:

  ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-debug --logfile /var/log/transmission.log -g /etc/transmission-daemon

  and started Transmission again.

• Confirmed in the log file that it thinks it is reading my settings

  Code:

  [2024-08-23 11:18:16.575] DHT DHT initialized (tr-dht.c:413)[2024-08-23 11:18:16.575] DHT Bootstrapping from 249 IPv4 nodes (tr-dht.c:172)[2024-08-23 11:18:16.575] Using settings from "/etc/transmission-daemon" (daemon.c:646)[2024-08-23 11:18:16.575] Saved "/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json" (variant.c:1221)[2024-08-23 11:18:16.575] transmission-daemon requiring authentication (daemon.c:674)[2024-08-23 11:18:16.575] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) initnatpmp succeeded (0) (natpmp.c:73)

  It is definitely reading from /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json. However, the second to last log entry looks like it is saving to my settings.json file, which I'm not sure is expected?

Any suggestions how to debug this further?

Statistics: Posted by ar3m3f — Fri Aug 23, 2024 6:43 pm

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