Please help: transmission does not work !

[jrosado]

Ok..here goes nothing or all..

I followed this guide for my configuration using oleg firmware:

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=5909

i installed gnuplot, logrotate and transmission:

ipkg install gnuplot
 ipkg install logrotate
 ipkg install transmission

(cron was already installed).

since i used marcnesium tutorial, my directories are:

/opt/share/torrent
 /opt/share/torrent/source
 /opt/share/torrent/work
 /opt/share/torrent/target

my transmission.conf file has the following:

#   Configuration
#   NOTE: no spaces around the = sign
#   the config will be sourced (eg. . transmission.conf)

SOURCE=/opt/share/torrent/source
WORK=/opt/share/torrent/work
TARGET=/opt/share/torrent/target
#MAILTO=torrent@somedomain.com
#MAILFROM=torrent@somedomain.com
MAILOPT="-smail.somedomain.com -f"
USER=admin
GROUP=root
DATE_FORMAT="%d %h %H:%M"

# Transmission daemon variables
PIDFILE=/opt/var/run/transmission.pid
ACTIVE=/opt/share/torrent/active-torrents.txt
HOME=/opt/share/torrent
WATCHDOG=300
LISTENING_PORT=65534
# set SPEED in kB/s or -1 for unlimited
UPLOAD_SPEED=10
DOWNLOAD_SPEED=-1
#UPLOAD_SPEED=41
#DOWNLOAD_SPEED=180
# change SYSLOG from /tmp/syslog.log to
SYSLOG=/opt/var/log/messages

#Uncomment the following for UPNP NAT traversal
#NAT_TRAVERSAL=--nat-traversal

# Seed torrent after completition (YES or NO)
AUTOSEED="YES"
# If the following limit is reached watchdog will not enqueue new one
MAX_ACTIVE_TORRENTS=10

# Creating graphical log of transfer with gnuplot
# can be very site specific issue. See transmission.cgi
# how this variables are used.
GNUPLOT=/opt/bin/gnuplot
GNUPLOT_COMMAND=${WORK}/transfer.gnuplot
GNUPLOT_DATA=${WORK}/transfer.data
GNUPLOT_OUTPUT=/opt/share/www/transfer.png
HTTP_IMG_LOCATION=../transfer.png
#TZ offset in seconds. Use +- sign. DST manually
TIMEZONE_OFFSET=+3600

#Colors for command line. # comment out if not needed
GREEN="\033[32;1m"
#NC="\033[0m"
#BACK_UP="\033[1K\033[0G"
NORMAL="\033[0m"
WARN="\033[33;1m"
BAD="\033[31;1m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
GOOD="\033[32;1m"

my crontab file has the following:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/usr/bin:/opt/usr/sbin
MAILTO=""
HOME=/
# ---------- ---------- Default is Empty ---------- ---------- #
# Syntax for lines is : minute hour day month dayofweek command #
*/5 * * * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.5mins
01 * * * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.monthly

*/30 * * * * admin nice /opt/sbin/transmission_watchdog

my S05syslogd has the following:

#!/bin/sh
 #
 # Startup script for syslogd
 #
 # Stop myself if running
 if [ -n "`pidof syslogd`" ]; then
   killall syslogd 2>/dev/null
 fi

/sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/messages -S -l 7

i put a .torrent file on the source directory, i force watchdog to start, then i select the .torrent file and make it active.

The .torrent file is copied to the work directory, but the torrent does not start downloading.

Here is my transmission.cgi page



I also get errors on the log page and no graphic. Here is a image:




So can please somebody tell me why is this not working

I'm getting mad

[jrosado]

I followed the German guide of wengi (with some help from babelfish) and now everything is working finally

Now i need to find out how to create ftp accounts with different directory access...

[wengi]

Seems that i have to do a translation... if i have the time.
wengi

[jrosado]

Seems that i have to do a translation... if i have the time.
wengi

Yes, you should

Now, my fight is with the ftp server. I found out the configuration file stupid-ftp.conf on the /etc folder.

I made changes to this file, save it, saved the flash and rebooted.

However, after the reboot the changes i made are gone and the file is equal to what it was

How can this be?

[IN70043]

Hi I followed the instructions and I get the following error trying to start transmissiond:

Jun 15 22:09:19 transmission_watchdog: Transmission daemon restarted!
Jun 15 22:09:19 transmissiond[546]: Transmission daemon 0.80-svn (1874) started - http://transmission.m0k.org/
Jun 15 22:09:20 transmissiond[546]: chdir - No such file or directory

Again and again and again.

The .torrent files are located in the source directory. Work directoru contains 3 directories with the same name like the torrents files, but transfer.data is empty. The conf file seems OK. Transmission.cgi works fine.

Any clue?

Regards

[avberk]

can you attach your transmission.conf file?

[IN70043]

HEre it's:

# Configuration
# NOTE: no spaces around the = sign
# the config will be sourced (eg. . transmission.conf)

SOURCE=/tmp/harddisk/torrent/source
WORK=/tmp/harddisk/torrent/work
TARGET=/tmp/harddisk/torrent/target
#MAILTO=torrent@somedomain.com
#MAILFROM=torrent@somedomain.com
#MAILOPT="-smail.somedomain.com -f"
USER=admin
GROUP=root
DATE_FORMAT="%d %h %H:%M"

# Transmission daemon variables
PIDFILE=/opt/var/run/transmission.pid
ACTIVE=/tmp/harddisk/torrent/active-torrents.txt
HOME=/tmp/harddisk/torrent
WATCHDOG=300
LISTENING_PORT=65534
# set SPEED in kB/s or -1 for unlimited
UPLOAD_SPEED=10
DOWNLOAD_SPEED=80
#UPLOAD_SPEED=41
#DOWNLOAD_SPEED=180
# change SYSLOG from /tmp/syslog.log to
SYSLOG=/opt/var/log/messages
DEBUG=1
#Uncomment the following for UPNP NAT traversal
NAT_TRAVERSAL=--nat-traversal

# Seed torrent after completition (YES or NO)
AUTOSEED="YES"
# If the following limit is reached watchdog will not enqueue new one
MAX_ACTIVE_TORRENTS=5

# Creating graphical log of transfer with gnuplot
# can be very site specific issue. See transmission.cgi
# how this variables are used.
GNUPLOT=/opt/bin/gnuplot
GNUPLOT_COMMAND=${WORK}/transfer.gnuplot
GNUPLOT_DATA=${WORK}/transfer.data
GNUPLOT_OUTPUT=/opt/share/www/transfer.png
HTTP_IMG_LOCATION=../transfer.png
#TZ offset in seconds. Use +- sign. DST manually
TIMEZONE_OFFSET=+3600

#Colors for command line. # comment out if not needed
GREEN="\033[32;1m"
#NC="\033[0m"
#BACK_UP="\033[1K\033[0G"
NORMAL="\033[0m"
WARN="\033[33;1m"
BAD="\033[31;1m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
GOOD="\033[32;1m"

AND the output of mount command:

/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
ramfs on /tmp type ramfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 on /opt type ext3 (rw)
/dev/discs/disc1/part2 on /tmp/harddisk type ext3 (rw,noatime)

disc0 is a 2GB USB pen where is also configured 512MB of swap
disc1 is a 500GB MAXTOR USB HD.

[IN70043]

Hi everyone.

Probably the problem is HOME variable?

Trnasmission points to /tmp/harddisk/torrent but admin user has it's own HOME pointing to /usr/local/root.

Can I use another user to start Transmission?

Regards

[oleo]

daemon should be started with transmission_watchdog. And there HOME is set to $WORK.

[IN70043]

Hi.

I've changed the HOME to $WORK but it doesn't work. I've tried to run transmissiond manually with this results:;

[admin@ASUS torrent]$ transmissiond HUP active-torrents.txt -v 1
Remove /usr, it's in the way.

With the command transmission_watchdog also doesn't work.

Any idea?

[IN70043]

Also tried:

[admin@ASUS torrent]$ export HOME=/tmp/harddisk/torrent/work
[admin@ASUS torrent]$ transmissiond HUP active-torrents.txt -v 1
Remove /tmp, it's in the way.

What does it means? --> Remove /tmp, it's in the way.

[IN70043]

Hi everyone.

I removed the actual release and I installed this release --> transmission_0.6+r1320-1_mipsel.ipk and everything works fine.

2171 admin 1428 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var
2174 admin 1428 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var
2175 admin 1428 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var
2176 admin 1428 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var
2177 admin 1428 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var
2178 admin 1428 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var
2179 admin 1428 S transmissiond -p 65534 -w 300 -u -1 -d -1 -i /opt/var

Could be a bug in release 0.7+r1874-1?

Regards

[zwitter]

I have better one ----> [752]: Could not open file XD and sup with that shit?

[oleo]

Setting HOME externally does not help as the $HOME is set by transmission.conf

Stating that Transmission does not work is too little evidence to comment anything. I can fix it if I see that it really does not work for me. By now there was not such case, but for others milestone my vary.

[kolp]

For some reason the graph in the log tab does not show anything. I have attached it. It just displays this every time i click log also i am not sure if my log i sclearing itself out or not because it still has logs from the Jun 18 till today. I don't know whats going as I am still trying to understand how this program works. Thanks in advance

1.9.2.7-9
Transmission daemon 1.22+ (6196)