Hi,

 

I am a Noob. I have a peculiar problem that I hope the experts here would be able to help.

 

I had no problem installing the Transmission through unmenu using the conf file. However, when I download files using magnet, the files just disappears after the transmission reports that download is complete. I did a find for the file but just couldn't find it anyway in the unraid server.  :'(

 

Could someone advise what I should do? Thanks.

Hi,

 

I am a Noob. I have a peculiar problem that I hope the experts here would be able to help.

 

I had no problem installing the Transmission through unmenu using the conf file. However, when I download files using magnet, the files just disappears after the transmission reports that download is complete. I did a find for the file but just couldn't find it anyway in the unraid server.  :'(

 

Could someone advise what I should do? Thanks.

only for magnet files?

 

they should not be any different than normal .torrent files.

 

where are your save locations for completed torrents set to?

Hi,

 

I am a Noob. I have a peculiar problem that I hope the experts here would be able to help.

 

I had no problem installing the Transmission through unmenu using the conf file. However, when I download files using magnet, the files just disappears after the transmission reports that download is complete. I did a find for the file but just couldn't find it anyway in the unraid server.  :'(

 

Could someone advise what I should do? Thanks.

only for magnet files?

 

they should not be any different than normal .torrent files.

 

where are your save locations for completed torrents set to?

 

That's what I think too. It's bizarre. I tried a few magnet and they all ended up similar. Once the download is complete, the file disappears immediately. I am using incomplete directory. Does it matter?

 

The following is my config:

 

vINSTALL_DIR=/mnt/cache/.transmission

vDOWNLOAD_DIR=/mnt/user/torrents/download

vINCOMPLETE_DIR=/mnt/user/torrents/incomplete

vWATCH_DIR=/mnt/user/torrents/watch

 

 

honestly not sure...  I have never run into this problem.  I would suggest doing a general google search and seeing if you can find anything that way.

"You have to set the umask correctly"

 

How do i do this?

 

Hi

Been using transmission on my uinraid box happily for a few months now but one thing has always bugged me.

 

I have a share on my disk4 called torrents and within that share I have 3 folders: watch, downloaded and incomplete.

 

When a torrent completes its moved to downloaded and it stays there until it finishes seeding or I manually remove it within transmission.

 

The problem occurs when I want to move the completed item to the correct location within the array.

 

I can copy from torrents share to another share without issues but if I try cut and paste TeraCopy copies to the location but it it fails to delete the original from the torrents folder.

 

If I try manually delete the item from the torrent share from within windows it throws a permission error and wont delete.

 

To delete it I have to telnet in and use mc.

 

I have however recently figured out I can use the following to set the permissions  correctly on the torrent share and then I can cut and paste and delete.

 

newperms /mnt/user/torrents/

 

My question how do I set transmission so that it uses the correct permissions on newly downloaded items, so that I don't have to set the permissions each time I want to move a folder / file from within the torrent share?

 

Thanks in advance

 

You have to set the umask correctly.

 

I did find a bug in that part of it and have put up a new .conf file for transmission.

This is perplexing. I am attempting to get Transmission install on unRaid 5.0-11rc using the new unMenu conf file. All went well on installation and setup. The start & stop buttons work fine in the user scripts. When I conduct a reboot and select the start torrent button I get a notification that Transmission is not installed. Isn't it suppose to auto install if enabled? What am I missing here?

 

Do I need to add something to my go script to force a auto install of transmission?

 

Thanks in advance

Would adding something like this work to get Transmission to auto load by adding it to the go file?

 

AUTO_INSTALL_DIRECTORY = /boot/packages

AUTO_INSTALL_FILE = ??????.txz.auto_install

 

 

Nope...that didn't work.

 

I still get this when I try to start Transmission: [glow=red,2,300]The rc.unraid_transmission script does not exist, please try reinstalling the application[/glow]

I have this in my boot "go" file but it doesn't seem to be working:

 

cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c

This is perplexing. I am attempting to get Transmission install on unRaid 5.0-11rc using the new unMenu conf file. All went well on installation and setup. The start & stop buttons work fine in the user scripts. When I conduct a reboot and select the start torrent button I get a notification that Transmission is not installed. Isn't it suppose to auto install if enabled? What am I missing here?

 

Do I need to add something to my go script to force a auto install of transmission?

 

Thanks in advance

Where are you installing it to?

Is the array auto starting?

I am using the unMenu install and the down load folders are on mnt/disk4/torrents/downloads/

The conf are on the flash

 

No the array is not auto starting. It is the unRAID default

It looks like files being save to /etc/rc.d/ are disapearing after reboot.

Such as the Plexmediaserver and Transmission.

 

I have to constantly reinstall after every reboot!!!!!

In unemnu after you click install you have to click install on reboot after. Did you do that?

The array also has to auto start.

 

where is the actual application installed to?

 

There are checks in the package to not install if the array is not online.  Wired and funky things can happen if the array where downloads are kept is not up and online when transmission starts.

Thank you for you comments. Is there a way to make the server auto boot instead of having to do it manually in the web browser at the unRaid startup menu?

 

Thanks

Thank you for you comments. Is there a way to make the server auto boot instead of having to do it manually in the web browser at the unRaid startup menu?

 

Thanks

Yes, it is in the settings on the web interface somewhere.  I don't remember off the top of my head.

I notice that transmission starts on boot for me even though I have it set to 'no' for enable transmission. Is this the same for everyone or maybe do I have an incorrect parameter somewhere else.

edit: oops sorry it is the transmission plugin I have installed not the package

Grabbed the conf files and all but curl seem to install and run with no error.  When I try to install curl from unmenu I get:

Installed, but version is different.Current version='error' expected '7.20.1'

 

when I try to run curl directly from the commandline I get:

curl: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

I'm running 5.0.4.  What should I be looking at?  which packages interact with this?

 

Thanks.

Grabbed the conf files and all but curl seem to install and run with no error.  When I try to install curl from unmenu I get:

Installed, but version is different.Current version='error' expected '7.20.1'

 

when I try to run curl directly from the commandline I get:

curl: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

I'm running 5.0.4.  What should I be looking at?  which packages interact with this?

 

Thanks.

curl is now installed by default if i remember correctly.  I have not test this on 5.0.4 and probably will not get a chance to.

Hmm, somehow I broke curl or it was broken to begin with for me.  When I run the user script to start Transmission I get this:

Starting Transmission deamon

/usr/bin/transmission-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Transmission started as nobody

 

It is then not started.

 

Any pointers on how to get it to a working libcurl?

 

UPDATE:

So it looks like curl will not install automatically for me.  The .manual_install and .auto_install files both have the following:

PACKAGE_DIRECTORY=/boot/packages
SCRIPT_DIRECTORY=/boot/unmenu
MyHost=Terra
MyPort=8080
test ! -f /usr/bin/curl && installpkg "${PACKAGE_DIRECTORY}"/curl-7.20.1-i486-1.txz

 

I don't see any curl errors in syslog but when I click on install from the unmenu package manager, it says that it's installed but with an 'error' version.  When I just type 'installpkg /bin/packages/curl-7.20.1-i486-1.txz' it install fine and pkgmgr in unmenu recognizes it and allows me to enable automatic reinstall which fails to install on reboot. Thoughts on this one?

 

Transmission:  after getting curl fixed up, and having the other dependencies installed, I'm able to proceed.  The Transmission package does give a 5.0 error but seems to install and work fine.

transmission_unraid-2.42-i486-1kh.txz installation:

You are not running unRAID version 5.0 so this package can not be installed
exit
Verifying package transmission_unraid-2.42-i486-1kh.txz.
Installing package transmission_unraid-2.42-i486-1kh.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
Executing install script for transmission_unraid-2.42-i486-1kh.txz.
Package transmission_unraid-2.42-i486-1kh.txz installed.

Created settings.json file
Created unraid.d directory
Created init script, /etc/rc.d/unraid.d/rc.unraid_transmission
Created unmenu start script, /boot/unmenu/42-unmenu_user_script_start_transmission
Created unmenu start script, /boot/unmenu/42-unmenu_user_script_stop_transmission
Starting Transmission deamon
Transmission started as nobody
Please go Here to get to the Transmission web interface
transmission_unraid-2.42-i486-1kh.txz is now installed:

 

So my only issue is getting curl into an automatic install mode properly.

As I said already, curl is now included in the main unRAID release.  The check that is being done in the curl package is finding that curl is installed and then not installing a new version.  That in and of itself is fine, but the check in the Transmission package is probably not quite correct, hence the reason you got the errors.

 

I will point out that there is a plugin available for the unRAID 5.0 system... why are you not using that instead of the unMenu package?

Thanks for pointing out that there's a transmission plugin, missed that altogether.  Installed it and it's much easier than the multiple unmenu packages.  One question though, with the unmenu package, I get Tranmission 2.42 I believe, with the plugin, I get the latest 2.76.  Is there any way to specify a downlevel version and make it stick?

Thanks for pointing out that there's a transmission plugin, missed that altogether.  Installed it and it's much easier than the multiple unmenu packages.  One question though, with the unmenu package, I get Tranmission 2.42 I believe, with the plugin, I get the latest 2.76.  Is there any way to specify a downlevel version and make it stick?

Not that i know of... besides editing the plugin to install the version you want it to.

Is there a step-by-step guide to installation for newbs?

 

I have copied the five files transmission-unmenu-package.conf, libevent-unmenu-package.conf from this thread, and curl, libidn, and openldap from the pyload thread) to smb://tower/flash/packages. But I assume I have to do something to the packages to install them, and to configure them somehow.

 

Do I also need unMenu for this to run? I understand that unMenu is unsupported now. If that's the case, what are the options to get torrents running? The threads on rtorrent and utorrent are years old, and doesn't look like they would work in unRAID 5.

Is there a step-by-step guide to installation for newbs?

 

I have copied the five files transmission-unmenu-package.conf, libevent-unmenu-package.conf from this thread, and curl, libidn, and openldap from the pyload thread) to smb://tower/flash/packages. But I assume I have to do something to the packages to install them, and to configure them somehow.

 

Do I also need unMenu for this to run? I understand that unMenu is unsupported now. If that's the case, what are the options to get torrents running? The threads on rtorrent and utorrent are years old, and doesn't look like they would work in unRAID 5.

 

There is a .plg plugin for version 5 which you can find in the subforum.

 

unMenu is still supported and works fine under unRAID 5.  The Transmission unMenu package does need to be modified as curl is now included in unRAID 5.0.4.  The unMenu package looks for a specific version to be installed (since curl never existed before) and because of that fails.