Couch Potato Permissions

[Supa]

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Interesting, I'll try reproducing your steps on my system and see why it's crashing.

 

[Supa]

It's most likely something on my end probably. I just don't know what.

Literally all I had to do for sickrage was

chown -R guest:guest /usr/pbi/sickrage-amd64/share/sickrage

although I think I did add the guest user to it as well.

Any idea how to revert the sysrc command? What's the default ?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Worked for me, though you definitely need to delete the /var/run/couchpotato directory if you've started couchpotato before switching the user.
I'd try again in a new jail, maybe without starting anything until you've switched the user. Also make sure to chown the share/couchpotato/* directory so couchpotato can update itself.

 

[Supa]

I mean it's running now although not sure why I need "onestatus".

But I still have permission errors writing to the /media/downloads/Movies folder.

Might need to get someone to remote login and look at it.. cuz i have no idea.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

I mean it's running now although not sure why I need "onestatus".

But I still have permission errors writing to the /media/downloads/Movies folder.

Might need to get someone to remote login and look at it.. cuz i have no idea.

you need one status if you didn't enable it from the plugins > installed tab, which would add 'couchpotato_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf

I'm perplexed why 'guest' can't write to a directory it owns. Does that "+" mean anything? I only know UNIX permissions so maybe it's related to windows stuff I know nothing about?

 

[Supa]

No idea about the "+".

All I know is someone must know what's up. Would you be willing to remote in a look at it? Everything else is fine.. it's mainly just this plugin. If only sickbeard supported Movies.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

continuing the conversation from reddit, what user&UID is transmission running as?

 

[Supa]

I think guest (1001) . Should I change that back to transmission (921)

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

I think guest (1001) . Should I change that back to transmission (921)

depends on the ownership of the folder you are telling it to download to from couchpotato

 

[Supa]

I mean the ownership of all the folders is guest:guest

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

can you show a screenshot of the error in transmission, I just want to verify what folder it's having issues with

 

[Supa]

This actually might be a problem. The permissions in the jail are different from when I just look from the general shell.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

This actually might be a problem. The permissions in the jail are different from when I just look from the general shell.

I brought this issue up before. It looks like the user 'guest' isn't mapped to UID 1001 in the jail.
What UID is the 'guest' user mapped to in the couchpotato_1 jail?
ls -l /path/to/jail/var/db/couchpotato (run from the freenas host)

 

[Supa]

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

I thought you switched couchpotato to use the 'guest' user, UID 1001?

 

[Supa]

Yeah sorry I've reinstalled the plugin so many times. Everytime I do that I can't turn on the plugin. So I was seeing how it behaved without setting the user.

But yeah still getting the same issue.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

hey Supa, this is a reply to your reddit comment..
"I mean I'm pretty sure it is. It starts downloading and then the log spams the "unable to write/Permission Denied" until it finishes and then folder ends up being empty."
If the error is showing in transmission, what you are saying isn't true, and my hypothesis that the file isn't even being started to be downloaded is correct.

Since you are telling transmission to write to /media/downloads/Movies, and it's owned by 1001/1001 with 775 permissions, then either...

• that folder needs to be world writeable (777)
• or, you need to change what user transmission runs as to a user with UID 1001
• or, you need to add transmissions user to a group with GID 1001, and make sure the folder is at least group writable 775

 

[Supa]

hey Supa, this is a reply to your reddit comment..
"I mean I'm pretty sure it is. It starts downloading and then the log spams the "unable to write/Permission Denied" until it finishes and then folder ends up being empty."
If the error is showing in transmission, what you are saying isn't true, and my hypothesis that the file isn't even being started to be downloaded is correct.

Since you are telling transmission to write to /media/downloads/Movies, and it's owned by 1001/1001 with 775 permissions, then either...

• that folder needs to be world writeable (777)
• or, you need to change what user transmission runs as to a user with UID 1001
• or, you need to add transmissions user to a group with GID 1001, and make sure the folder is at least group writable 775

So all the permission errors show up in Couchpotato.. not transmission.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

So all the permission errors show up in Couchpotato.. not transmission.

That's not what I heard earlier from reddit

"It's once the torrent gets sent to transmission and tries writing the file."​

You never showed me a screenshot of the error like I asked earlier so I can go only go off your descriptions.