Starting/removing/upgrading transmission-daemon wont work

Question

When I type sudo apt-get upgrade the following is output:

Setting up transmission-daemon (2.84-0ubuntu0.14.10.1) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript transmission-daemon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package transmission-daemon (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 transmission-daemon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Also when I type the following: sudo service transmission-daemon stop this is the output:

+ sudo service transmission-daemon stop
stop: Unknown instance:

What is wrong? I am an ubuntu beginner.

Answer 1

open /etc/default/transmission-daemon with a editor with root permissions like this:

sudo nano /etc/default/transmission-daemon

then change the

ENABLE_DAEMON=0

to

ENABLE_DAEMON=1

for nano do the ctrl+o to save and ctrl+x to exit. then that package should be upgradeable.

if that helps mark yourself affected to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/1058518