9.2.1.1 to 9.2.1.2 upgrade: transmission won't start

[marcevan]

On plugins navtree it's not there, so went and saw jail is still there and on, but in plugins, the switch is set to off. Click to 'on' position waits 3 seconds, and reverts to off. No messages at all.

Rebooted to same effect. Now deleting plugin, jail, and going to retry.

Would like one more person to say the same before I post as a bug officially.

 

[Jeff Fanelli]

Having the exact same issue. In my case I upgraded from 9.20 to 9.2.1.3, and now Transmission won't start.

 

[marcevan]

Sometimes a restart fixes the "Something went wrong" issue when turning on plugins. Sometimes the plugins are actually working and the freeNAS gui is incorrect.

So first step is refresh the webpage.
Second step is see if the plugin is actually working
Third is a reboot
Fourth is actually delete the plugin and reinstall. Note: The jail will be deleted but when you reinstall all mounts like /downloads and /torrents will be there and you'll need to check off the mount box.

 

[Jeff Fanelli]

Thank you very much for your suggestions. No joy on steps 1-3. My fear with deleting and reinstalling the plugin are my existing torrents; not the data, but the actual torrent files where I am seeding etc, I don't want to lose all of that.

 

[marcevan]

You can probably create a single IP CIFs share for this and save off the files locally.

 

[Jeff Fanelli]

Thanks for responding (again!). My issue is, I don't even know which files need to be saved off / restored after I delete the jail.

 

[marcevan]

None really.

Ideally you got the data files from the mount point -or- your pool's place of files.

The jail, for transmission, is usually just the settings.json file updates is all.

 

[Jeff Fanelli]

OK, thanks again. I ended up taking your advice and uninstalling and reinstalling Transmission, taking care to first backup my HOME directory, and then restore it when I was done. For me, the path was:

/mnt/freenas0-array/jails/transmission_2/usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home#

One note, when I uninstalled Transmission, I should have deleted my Jail immediately after. Because I didn't, the re-install of Transmission created a new Jail (with an incremental number of the first, and a new IP address). No big deal, I just deleted the old one after. I then had to re-add my mount points to my jail (which are basically links to folders outside of my jail, where all my media lives etc). Lastly, I had to change the IP of this new Jail to match the old one, since that was the IP I had configured for the Port Address Translation rule on my firewall for the torrent traffic.

I hope this helps the next guy..

-jeff