Odd Transmission Behavior (doesn't move torrents once complete)

[SilverJS]

Hi all,

As per title. Nothing critical, but just trying to see if something is amiss. Essentially, Transmission will not move completed torrents into my Finished folder. It will have them remain in Incomplete, and that's where I have to fetch them.

I've used this plugin in the past, and it didn't do it this way.

For reference, I have created, on my main Windows share, the following datasets :

Transmission
Transmission/Finished
Transmission/Incomplete
Transmission/Watch

For all, Owner:nobody, group:nobody, all boxes ticked.

Ideas...?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

can you show a screenshot of your transmission settings (left panel of the freenas webui)
also, the output of 'ls -l /path/to/Transmission'

 

[SilverJS]

Screenshot of settings :

http://imgur.com/orzWUWe

ls -l :

[root@freenas-server] ~# ls -l /mnt/Tank/jails/transmission_1
total 195
drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 22 Apr 13 16:20 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 11 Apr 13 19:26 ../
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 965 Jul 10 2014 .cshrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4 Apr 13 19:26 .plugins/
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 253 Jul 10 2014 .profile
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6197 Jul 10 2014 COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 46 Jul 10 2014 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 40 Jul 10 2014 boot/
dr-xr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Apr 14 05:05 dev/
drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 104 Apr 14 05:05 etc/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 49 Jul 10 2014 lib/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 5 Apr 2 19:04 libexec/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 5 Apr 13 20:05 media/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jul 10 2014 mnt/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Apr 14 09:05 proc/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 144 Jul 10 2014 rescue/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 6 Jul 10 2014 root/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 132 Jul 10 2014 sbin/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Jul 10 2014 sys@ -> usr/src/sys
drwxrwxrwt 6 root wheel 6 Apr 14 06:01 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 15 Apr 13 19:26 usr/
drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 25 Apr 14 05:05 var/

Tried it again last night (two-month-old was awake....), it seemed to work fine! But then, tried this morning, and saw these messages in the console :

Apr 14 08:53:51 freenas-server kernel: <118>Apr 14 05:53:51 transmission_1 transmission-daemon[6170]: Couldn't create "/media/Finished": Permission denied (utils.c:424)
Apr 14 08:53:51 freenas-server kernel: <118>Apr 14 05:53:51 transmission_1 transmission-daemon[6170]: Couldn't create "/media/Finished": Permission denied (utils.c:424)
Apr 14 08:53:51 freenas-server kernel: <118>Apr 14 05:53:51 transmission_1 transmission-daemon[6170]: MoreThanAVote Bundle error moving "/media/incomplete/MoreThanAVote Bundle/00_What's-Inside.html" to "/media/Finished/MoreThanAVote Bundle/00_What's-Inside.html": Permission denied (torrent.c:3099)

So, clearly a permissions issue, but not too sure where to go from here. Seems that transmission wants to create a "Finished" directory with a capital F, whereas I've clearly got "/media/finished" in my settings as per screenshot.

(The source directory is indeed capitalized, but.....??)

Thanks!

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Yeah, very strange that your error shows a capitalized directory, when you clearly are telling transmission to download to the un-capotilized directory.
You might want to verify what is in /usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home/settings.json

Also, what I wanted to see was the permissions of your storage.

Code:

ls -l /mnt/Tank/jails/transmission_1/media

Finally, can you also show your Storage setup (the jail mountpoints).

 

[SilverJS]

Joshua,

In between your replies, I had a shot at uninstalling plugin, re-installed with fresh storage....everything seems to work fine now. Not too sure what was up before....?

I've downloaded like 5-6 torrents to test, and all seems good. Thanks for your help!

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Joshua,

In between your replies, I had a shot at uninstalling plugin, re-installed with fresh storage....everything seems to work fine now. Not too sure what was up before....?

I've downloaded like 5-6 torrents to test, and all seems good. Thanks for your help!

Welcome, glad you got it working.

 

[marcevan]

Chiming in late (June) now but I have similar problem with music only...very weird.

My downloads directory has sub-folders of /TV /Music /Movies

Respectfully, Transmission is told to put each type in corresponding folders and then SickR, Couch, and Head take over.

But music is sticking in incomplete of transmission while others are moving to those subs.

All permissions on the subs are nobody/nogroup so not sure why transmission cannot move to the /Music.

The only thing I can think of is that transmission is set to stop at 0.01 ratio and if all seeders/peers are gone it's going to be stuck in incomplete until seed ratio gets back up, right?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Chiming in late (June) now but I have similar problem with music only...very weird.

My downloads directory has sub-folders of /TV /Music /Movies

Respectfully, Transmission is told to put each type in corresponding folders and then SickR, Couch, and Head take over.

But music is sticking in incomplete of transmission while others are moving to those subs.

All permissions on the subs are nobody/nogroup so not sure why transmission cannot move to the /Music.

The only thing I can think of is that transmission is set to stop at 0.01 ratio and if all seeders/peers are gone it's going to be stuck in incomplete until seed ratio gets back up, right?

just being owned by a nobody/nogroup doesn't make a folder writable for a process on UNIX (as far as I know).

the folders owner, group owner, permission levels, and the transmission jails user/group database determine if its writable.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...plugins-write-permissions-to-your-data.27273/