Transmission Settings Reverting to Default / Automatically Switching to Port 90

[darkryoushii]

Hi all,

Over the last few days I moved my plugins from my UFS storage to my ZFS storage. Details about the drives and system specs are listed in my signature below. For the majority of the plugins (SAB, Sonarr, Plex, Crashplan) I followed this process to migrate:

1. Create new jail on ZFS storage and mount appropriate storage directories.
2. Start the plugin to create default configuration files.
3. Copy and paste the old configuration files over the top and adjust permissions (incl. run.conf for Crashplan).
4. Restart new plugin.

This worked perfectly for all plugins except for Transmission - the one that I expected to have the least amount of issues with! - as it restarted after this back with my old history, statistics, and rpc-url directive, but the settings file was otherwise completely overridden with default settings. After attempting to adjust these settings using the FreeNAS GUI instead, the port somehow switches to a non-connectable 90 and truncates the 91 from the end.

Please let me know what files / screenshots you need from me, I am also able to record gifs quite efficiently to demonstrate this process, but I would like my half-finished history from before migration to complete before I make any further changes. Should be within the hour.

Any help is greatly appreciated,
Regards,

 

[forumuser]

which settings file did you replace? From what I can tell, neither

/config/settings.json

nor

/usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home/settings.json

adequately change the settings since the freenas gui will overwrite some of the settings at launch. From what I've seen, you should stop the plugin, then modify these files. Restart freenas and then turn on the plugin. That may help, but many report it doesn't.

Since the option you are trying to change is one that is changed by the freenas gui, I suspect there is a conflict with the gui making changes to the settings file and the changes you made. You may want to start with restoring the settings file to the default and see if the gui settings will be applied correctly.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

@darkryoushii
freenas will try to change/overwrite settings and that is the proper place to set them if available. if not available there, you can edit the settings.json, just make sure transmission is stopped at the time.

90/91 would not work as ports because transmission doesn't run as root. strange that it changed to that. I would try editing stuff from the freenas GUI and see if they change in the config file.