Questions tagged [transmission]
Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). It is Ubuntu's default BitTorrent client since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
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Unstable speeds and crashes when downloading torrents to external hard drive
I have an issue, maybe someone here experienced it and can help. I have a laptop with newly installed Ubuntu 24.04 (Adding a screenshot of my specs)
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This laptop is mainly used for media server (...
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System tray icon don't exist for Transmission in Ubuntu 24.04
No ability to choose show/hide system tray icon exists.
Transmission works only when opened as common application.
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Transmission Remote List magnets/URLs
I use transmission remote terminal command and I want to re-create the current state of my torrent files in other computer using a bash script.
I want to create a bash script that will list all the ...
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How to forward internet traffic of port 51413 to go through 127.0.0.1:8443?
I am on Ubuntu 22.04 MATE. I have installed the C library of shadowsocsk-libev, and I connect to my server using ss-local -c /etc/shadowsocks.json . and I get the following output:
2024-02-13 20:38:...
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Memory leak in transmission-deamon?
My system had a scare last night, it apparently ran out of memory, the rtkit-deamon complained about the canary thread starving and the kernel killed a number of processes.
The system is a Fujitsu ...
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Get transmission download directory from cli
Is there a way to see the current download location for a torrent using transmission-remote? In the web interface you can view and set the individual torrent's location, but unless i'm missing ...
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Transmission-daemon use a lot of cache memory [closed]
Can someone tell me why there is so much use of cache in my orange-pi when is running transmission-daemon, i'm not understanding really well if the problem is transmission-daemon or the cache used is ...
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Why setting a ratio of 2 in Transmission doesn't restrict the upload speed to 2 times the download speed?
In the Transmission application, I assumed you select a torrent and then select Properties → Options and there exists a Ratio option. If you go into the Seeding Limits settings, I thought if I set it ...
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Transmission-cli is leaving .part files
I recently developed a PHP script to automatically download torrents with transmission-cli. I did consider using deluge-console but that did not support download locations (-w), the problem is:
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Transmission reports "Peer listening port" is "Closed"
After switching Transmission to run on a different Ubuntu host on the same LAN, it's now reporting that the "Peer listening port" is closed, however the port is being forwarded on the router ...
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Permission Denied (Transmission WebUI)
So I have been playing with groups, users and permissions on my Home Server in order to use Transmission, to no avail.
I want to have my 'download' folder in my 'home' folder. Why? Because I have my ...
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Transmission-daemon: cannot edit settings.json
I want to edit Transmission-daemon's main config file located at /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json but I am unable to, due to its default permissions:
/etc/transmission-daemon$ ls -lah
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Issue with if statment in bash
First time interacting here. it helped me several times, but I'm lost this time.
I got a script to remove stalled/ended torrents from @bulljit. (I don't know if I can/should put his Github here. Sorry ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 - Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker
I know there is another answer, but that doesn't answer to my trouble.
This link: Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker doesn't answer becase, at the time I'm writing - ...
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Transmission : Change Finished Downloads Colour
I have Ubuntu 22.04. Transmission works fine for me with torrents. But the same colour for active and finished downloads is a bit confusing.
From Google search, I see a few requests on the same on ...
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Transmission GTK errors - syslog contains millions (literally) of errors daily and in app labels and layouts regularly become confused
I have transmission running on this computer loading at startup. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and have installed latest updates.
When I access the app to inspect torrent properties the labels on the ...
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Transmission-daemon - Folder permissions issue
Transmission-daemon can't write to a Downloads folder.
(I have installed and used transmission before, and i dont remember ever having trouble with it, i have read these forums and i cant find an ...
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Transmission 3 not recognising info hash
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04. Installed Transmission 3.
When I try to use info hash Transmission says Unrecognized URL.
In my previous Ubuntu transmission worked without fail using info hash.
What do ...
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Transmission dont start
I have tried to completely remove it through "purge" and reinstall, but in the end it does not open either.
If I put "transmission-gtk" in the terminal, the response I get is &...
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Transmission Gtk-WARNING **: <time> cannot open display: :0.0
Ubuntu 22.04
I'm trying to use crontab to launch Transmission at 22:04 and kill it at 07:00.
To launch it at 22:04, I use:
04 22 * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 transmission-gtk
But I get the error:
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Transmission app update
I noticed the Transmission app in Lubuntu 20.04 currently updates to version 3.00.
Meanwhile Kubuntu 20.04 doesn't offer its update, staying with 2.94 version.
Tell me please, when would some changes ...
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transmission on old /home to new install
ubuntu mate 20.04.3 LTS, transmission 2.94
wiped my root and installed new ubuntu and mounted on to old home.
Now whenever i start transmission it defaults to an old list of torrents which need to be ...
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Where are transmission-cli download saved?
I cannot find where my torrented folder is. I did transmission-cli file.torrent and it has finished.
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Ubuntu 20.04 permissions inherited from group
I've really tried to find the solution everywhere, but still don't get it.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. I want transmission, plex, sonarr and radarr to access folders to be able to download files. ...
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Why does Transmission no longer open a port with Upnp enabled?
Transmission was working well until about a week ago, and then quit opening a port.
Upnp is enabled in both the router and Transmission.
All ports show stealth mode by grc.
Had a friend check ...
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How to use transmission-show and other command line tools to find the status of torrents?
In going through the man pages for transmission I'm not seeing how to find the status of current downloads initiated through the GUI:
nicholas@gondor:~$
nicholas@gondor:~$ transmission-show --...
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How is transmission monitored from the console?
Normally I add magnet links from firefox to transmission via the GUI, but also want it to continue the downloads even when the GUI isn't running.
I've also installed:
transmission-cli
transmission-...
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Why transmission displays any port as closed even all ports are opened?
I am using transmission for torrenting. I opened all of my ports. I become root and check it with "ufw status". Result is -> Status: inactive.
I also allowed default transmission port (...
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Transmission advertising IPv6 address despite not being bound to it
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.2 and transmission-daemon 2.94-2ubuntu3. Transmission is connected to a VPN over IPv4, and that works fine, except that — despite passing --bind-address-ipv6 fe80:: to ...
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Want a CLI interface to Transmission: transmission-remote, transmission-cli, transmission-remote-cli?
The Ubuntu 20.04 package transmission-cli says:
This package contains a (deprecated) stand-alone command-line client, transmission-remote to interface with transmission-daemon and tools to create, ...
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transmission-daemon configuration not working
I am trying to access transmission-daemon over HTTP. I have thus edited the rpc-whitelist option in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json. I did stop and restart the daemon while editing the config.
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restore transmission-daemon status and list from broken ubuntu install
today i lost one of my vm's (the disk image refuses to boot but is still accessible).
given the age of the install i decided i would just go with a fresh install.
i have restored almost everything, ...
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Pktgen Dpdk different socket ID on different cores error
I am facing the error " port 0 on socket ID 0 has different socket ID on lcore 1 socket ID 1" whenever I run Pkt gen Dpdk. I am running this on Host Machine. Pktgen Dpdk runs fine when I run ...
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How to eliminate TCP Retransmission/TCP DUP ACK from the server?
Introduction of the application
We have an application which it receive data from a TCP protocol (IOT device) to our Ubuntu server. Both end send it's data receive confirmation to each other, in order ...
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Transmission and curlftpfs: Operation not supported
I have an FTP server mounted with curlftpfs. But when I try to download torrent with Transmission to the mounted folder it gives me an error: "torrent name" tr_fdFileCheckout failed for &...
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Is it correct that a torrent gets downloaded via enp3s0 (eth0) even if outgoing traffic is restricted to a VPN on tun0?
I modified my iptables according to the answer from Musclehead here so that my transmission-daemon can just send outgoing traffic to tun0 (which is a VPN).
(Hint: My eth0 is called enp3s0.)
Now, if I ...
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Transmission doesn't have write permissions and throws an error when downloading torrents
Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS ------------Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-58-generic -------------Architecture: x86-64 –
I have a laptop running Ubuntu acting as a media server. I have transmission ...
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Can someone explain these rules for a specific user and a VPN in iptables?
I used a script from here to setup rules that make sure user transmission-daemon can only send traffic via the VPN i use.
At least that's what the author says. I have troubles understanding the ...
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I can't seed a torrent without downloading it using transmission-daemon web interface
I am running Ubuntu server 20.04 on a Raspberry Pi 4, i seed a lot of torrents on my PC so i decided to install transmission-daemon on my rasp to have it working 24/7.
I wanted to transfer some of the ...
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transmission-daemon is much slower than transmission-gtk
I am experimenting transmission-daemon on Ubuntu 20.04. It works fine, but is incredibly slow. Here is an example with a widely available torrent (tmr is an alias for transmission-remote):
$ tmr -a &...
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Transmission Segmentation Fault on 20.04 in non-root mode
I just upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 and I'm facing a really strange problem with transmission-gtk. Here are the characteristics :
In GUI, Transmission doesn't launch
Typing transmission-gtk in a ...
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Transmission 2.94 not downloading
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 and then installed Transmission 2.94 since it worked fine on my 18.04.
It wasn't downloading so I searched and found that sudo ufw status verbose returned that it was ...
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transmission ports still open after transmission "failed"
I am currently trying to get transmission to work on my Ubuntu 18.04.4 server. It's a torrent downloader, that can be controlled using the web interface and the command line. I have started it before ...
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Having issues with torrents on Ubuntu 20.04
I am having a weird issue with torrents on ubuntu 20.04. Whenever I try torrenting the torrent gets stuck at "loading metadata from 0 peers". I tried adding more trackers, forwarded the port ...
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Torrent clients don't seem to be working on 20.04
I've recently updated to 20.04 and everything seems to be running smoothely except none of the torrent clients I try seem to want to work.
When I try using Transmission all that happens after I try ...
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Transmission web client file properties
Ok so this question will be very similar to this one: How to exclude files in torrent from download?
However, this is not the same question. In this question, I am wondering how you should go about ...
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Transmission 2.94 on Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't work
Transmission after a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't download anything. Tried many suggestions in Ask Ubuntu; like 'picking a random port' in the network options and also trying to operate it ...
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18.04 Transmission stopped being able to handle large files
When using Transmission torrents in 18.04, I'm getting "Error: File too large".
When copying large files (22GB for example) in Nautilus it first copies a part of it and then it just crashes. This ...
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How can I fix transmission's bizzare layout?
A couple of weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 18.04.4 and I opened yesterday transmission for the first time and noticed that the layout is not what like I remembered it. As you can see
the 'show' toolbar ...
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Ïs /etc/init.d/transmisssion-daemon file created after transmssion daemon installed, or I should creat it myself?
Ïs /etc/init.d/transmisssion-daemon file created after transmssion daemon installed, or I should creat it myself?
I don't see it, so I creat it. but it does not solve my problem.
The daemon still run ...
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