Transmission-daemon.service wont start

Troubleshooting
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Required Information

  • DietPi version | 8.14

  • Distro version | bullseye 0

  • Kernel version | Linux DietPi 5.15.84-v8+ #1613 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 5 12:03:08 GMT 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

  • SBC model | RPi4 Model B

  • Power supply used | 5V 1A

  • SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)

Additional Information (if applicable)

  • Software title | Transmission
  • Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? Freshly installed
  • Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? I dont know
    ā† If you sent a ā€œdietpi-bugreportā€, please paste the ID here ā†’
  • Bug report ID | echo $G_HW_UUID

Steps to reproduce

  1. I belive I upgraded some days ago with no other problems, but since I rebooted the pi, the service
    transmission-daemon wont start.

Expected behaviour

  • Service runing as before

Actual behaviour

  • sytemctl status give me a timeout error, If I try to restart the service it causes a loop, with no results, I can see it under HTOP but it wont stop.
  • I tried killing transmission-daemon and starting it with:
    sudo -u debian-transmission /usr/bin/transmission -f --log-debug whitout succes, it freezes, even cant use Ctrl+c to stop it

Extra details

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Maybe something got corrupted. Take a backup of your configuration and reinstall

cp /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json /root/settings.json
dietpi-software uninstall 44
dietpi-software install 44
dietpi-services stop transmission-daemon
cp /root/settings.json /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
dietpi-services restart transmission-daemon
chown debian-transmission.debian-transmission /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
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Thanks, for the quick response.
Sorry for the silly question, i have torrents in multiple paths, in the settings json I can see my default download folder specificied. If I keep only the json (and source material ofc) Would remember transmission all the torrents?

Thanks again!!

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My guess is that youā€™ll have to add the torrents. Unless there is some cache file with the loaded torrents you can also transfer.

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Thanks so much, I saved the torrents files, default path is:
/var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/torrents

But I cant uninstall it, I have got an error deleting the user ā€˜debian-transmissionā€™. Tried using sudo too with the error handler whitout succes.

Is it safe to uninstall ā€˜manuallyā€™? I mean
apt purge transsmision ; sudo userdel debian-transmission

I prefer using the script btw, love those little tools. They are one of the reasons I install dietpi for anyone askingā€¦

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Ok, I am an idiot, didnt saw that two procces was holding the user from deleting. Used another ssh to kill both proccess it with sudo kill -9 $PID and retried the script, which worked instantly.
Installed again and now I am restoring the backed up torrent files.
Everything looks like is works fine.

Thanks again!!

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After almost a week of working whitout problems, I have the same error again, I can restore like the previous time, but I would love to find the root problem and reverse it once for all.
What can I do to find more info about what is causing this?

I think one of the drivers is failing (running checks atm, i ll edit to add this info) but I dont belive that this is the problem, at those drives there are only the data of the torrents.

Any help would be appreciated!!

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You can have a look into the logs
journalctl -u transmission-daemon

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I checked it, but it doesnt help me:

Feb 28 14:10:52 DietPi systemd[1]: Starting Transmission BitTorrent Daemon...
Feb 28 14:12:22 DietPi systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Feb 28 14:13:52 DietPi systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
Feb 28 14:13:52 DietPi systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Killing process 1279 (transmission-da) with signal SIGKILL.
Feb 28 14:13:52 DietPi systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Killing process 1349 (transmission-da) with signal SIGKILL.
Feb 28 14:13:52 DietPi systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Feb 28 14:13:52 DietPi systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Feb 28 14:13:52 DietPi systemd[1]: Failed to start Transmission BitTorrent Daemon.

Maybe you can see further than me, I am a total noob looking at logs

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processes getting killed from the system. can you check kernel error logs

dmesg -l 0,1,2,3
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Thanks a lot @Jappe and @Joulinar , I checked dmesg (didnt used it, will read manpage for further checks, thanks a lot)
The output is these lines reapeated times:

[  227.078151] usb usb2-port1: unable to enumerate USB device
[  231.157574] usb usb2-port1: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?

Could be the faulting device the problem? Usually this didnt break transmission, only torrents on those devicesā€¦

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I dont know why, but using same ports on the pi, but in opposite order, it worksā€¦ Never saw transmission stop because drives failed, nice ā€˜alertā€™, buying some new ssd to replace the old hdd.
Thanks again, looks like it is working whitout problems.

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how do you power the drives? Directly from RPI device or using some external PSU? from our side we always recommend to use external power supply.

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I have a external dock with his own supply.
I dont know what was the problem, but after the last change is running smothly.