Transmission error

Troubleshooting
1

I keep getting the following when trying to reinstall transmission:

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2

Hi,

pls do following and repeat the installation afterwards

groupadd -r debian-transmission
usermod -aG debian-transmission debian-transmission

https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/4244#issuecomment-855408347

3

now have this

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4

did you rerun dietpi-software ?

5

Yes

6

can you share following

cat /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json | grep whitelist

if possible copy the output from SSH terminal and avoid creating screen prints

7 
root@dietpi:~# cat /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json | grep whitelist
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
8

strange, whitelist-enabled is set to false and shouldn’t have any effect. Did you tried to reboot already?

9

Yes no difference

10

Any ideas?

11

You could try adding your local client IP to rpc-whitelist. For doing this, you would need to stop Transmission first, perform the change and start Transmission afterwards. It’s important to have Transmission stopped while doing the change. But I would wonder if this has any effect as whitelist-enabled is not active.

12

There seem to be some lines missing. Please post the whole file, redacting the password.
cat /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

13

Here you go:

"umask": 7,
    "message-level": 0,
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": true,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": true,
    "ratio-limit": 1.1,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": true,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 1,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 5,
    "peer-limit-global": 40,
    "download-queue-size": 3,
    "cache-size-mb": 788,
    "blocklist-enabled": 0, 
    "download-dir": "/mnt/dietpi_userdata/downloads",
    "download-limit": 100, 
    "download-limit-enabled": 0, 
    "encryption": 2,
    "max-peers-global": 200, 
    "peer-port": 51413, 
    "pex-enabled": 1, 
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": 1, 
    "rpc-port": 9091, 
    "rpc-username": "root",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1", 
    "upload-limit": 100, 
    "upload-limit-enabled": 0
14

You have some weird values here:
rpc-authentication-required is boolean, not integer. Same for pex-enabled.
Maybe the default configuration file is overridden by environmental variables such as TRANSMISSION_HOME.
Also rpc-host-whitelist-enabled is missing and by default is true.
Maybe the quickest way to fix it is to set the IPs in rpc-host-whitelist and restart the service.

15

How would I do that?, I’m still quite new to Linux

16

or remove transmission and perform a new installation to get correct config file. Might be fastest.