[SOLVED] Transmission gone wonky

pooky2483 · August 3, 2013, 2:05am

I have recently started having problems with Transmission.
When I click on the icon on the desktop or select it from ‘Applications/Internet/Transmission’ it takes about 3 minutes for the GUI to show up on the desktop. When it finally shows, none of the torrents download any data, they show as ‘Downloading from 0 of 0 Peers’ it never actually connect to any, even when left overnight. They eventually stall.

It’s nothing to do with my blocklist, which I can no longer find! I’ve done a full search for ‘.config’ and there’s no sign of it, which is strange as Transmission still shows the blocklist.

I have installed Transmission on a laptop with Win7 installed and it works fine so I don’t know what is wrong with the one on my PC with Ubuntu 12.04LTS on…

[EDIT]
Found ‘.config’ by other means - accidentally found it’s path in Transmissions message log.

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 3, 2013, 9:02am

Try running:

mv -v ~/.config/transmission ~/.config/transmission-old

then

mv -v ~/.cache/transmission ~/.cache/transmission-old

Then starting Transmission.

Be Aware … you will loose all your settings, and blocklists.

pooky2483 · August 3, 2013, 12:03pm

Don’t think it’s the blocklist that’s the problem!

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 3, 2013, 12:30pm

I didn’t say it was … I just said doing the above would make you loose ALL settings INCLUDING your blocklists

pooky2483 · August 3, 2013, 3:25pm

Oh, OK sorry, my eyes were still asleep when I read it. Apologies, I will give it a go.

pooky2483 · August 3, 2013, 3:52pm

Tried it but it still takes a while for it to actually show up (GUI)

mako6 · August 3, 2013, 3:52pm

I had same problems w Transmission- think it got some vulnerability and stopped being supported- couldn’t even reinstall it., but what I did find was identical in appearance and operation: [i]Qtransmission bitttorrent client[/i]. Remove transmission, search for Qtrans and you should have no problems.

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 3, 2013, 4:01pm

Odd … transmission is in 13.04, so I’d expect it still to be in 12.04

pooky2483 · August 13, 2013, 2:09am

I’m now not sure it it is Transmission as I have installed qBittorrent and Vuze. None of them are connecting and downloading anything. So I am thinking that there is something missing but I don’t know what.

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 13, 2013, 2:11pm

have you got a firewall in either Linux or your router that’s blocking the port the torrent apps are using.

is your router and the torrent apps configured to set the port using uPnP ?

or

have you set a static port in the torrent apps … then configured the router to forward that port to the PC’s (static) IP ?

have you tried simply restarting the router and PC’s ?

pooky2483 · August 13, 2013, 4:41pm

It was the router lol… I’d set the firewall to HIGH.
Don’t really know how to set it so I can have the router security to high and have it let P2P stuff through?

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 13, 2013, 5:04pm

You’d have to configure the PC to have a static IP adress … the torrent app to use a static port … and the router to forward incoming connections on that port to the PC’s static IP address.

pooky2483 · August 13, 2013, 5:24pm

…Sounds WAY too complicated :o Don’t think I’ll bother

pooky2483 · August 13, 2013, 8:28pm

Looking at it a second time…
PC to have a static IP… It does
Torrent App to use static port…It does
Router to forward incoming to the PC static IP address… That’s the complicated part I need help with.

One part I am struggling with is ‘Services’
AIM (TCP:5190)
BGP(TCP:179)
BOOTP_CLIENT(UDP:68)
BOOTP_SERVER(UDP67…68)
CU-SEEME(TCP/UDP:7648)
DNS(TCP/UDP:53)
FINGER(TCP:79)
FTP(TCP:20…21)
H.323(TCP:1720)
HTTP(TCP:80)
HTTPS(TCP:443)
ICQ(TCP:5190)
IRC(TCP/UDP:6660…6669)
NEWS(TCP:144)
NFS(UDP:2049)
NNTP(TCP:119)
POP3(TCP:110)
PPTP(TCP:1723)
RCMD(TCP:512)
REAL-AUDIO(TCP:7070)
REXEC(TCP:514)
RLOGIN(TCP:513)
RTELNET(TCP:107)
RTSP(TCP/UDP:554)
SFTP(TCP:115)
SMTP(TCP:25)
SNMP(TCP/UDP:161)
SNMP-TRAPS(TCP/UDP:162)
SQL-NET(TCP:1521)
SSH(TCP/UDP:22)
STRMWORKS(UDP:1558)
TACACS(UDP:49)
TELNET(TCP:23)

And the other bit, the IP address, 192.168.0.***

What do I do?

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 13, 2013, 8:51pm

You’ll have to create your own “Service” called sommat like “Transmission”

And tell it to forward incoming connections on TCP to the PC’s IP address

= whatever you’ve set in Transmission.

I can’t help much more than that as all routers have their own interfaces.

pooky2483 · August 13, 2013, 11:17pm

Done

Thanks Mark 8)

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 14, 2013, 12:43am

No problem pooky … glad you got it sorted

pooky2483 · August 14, 2013, 11:36am

…Spoke too soon >:(
I’ve set port forwarding rules for Qbittorrent, Vuze and Transmission and only Qbit works?
Even setting a range of ports for all of them to use, all but the one for Qbit show as closed to the software?
And…Yes. I have set the same port to be used in the software.

Qbittorrent
6881
TCP/UDP
192.168.0.2

Transmission
6882
TCP/UDP
192.168.0.2

Vuze
6883
TCP/UDP
192.168.0.2

Filesharing
6885…6889
TCP/UDP
192.168.0.2

pooky2483 · August 14, 2013, 11:37pm

It doesn’t rain, it pours.

Now Qbittorrent will not start at all?
Vuze & Transmission work OK. But they do still have the same problem as before.

Is there anything I can do to check the system for what should be installed to see if that’s the reason for the programs not starting?

Mark_Greaves_PCNetSp · August 15, 2013, 12:02am

Try reinstalling qbittorrent

sudo apt-get install --reinstall qbittottent

In Transmission >Preferences > Network

Set -

Port used for incoming connections: 6882
Pick a random port every time Transmission is started = UNticked
Use UPnP or NAT-PMP port forwarding from my router = UNticked

Now if you’ve forwarded port 6882 to the PC’s IP address in the router … it should all work

You can also check the port is OPEN by clicking the “Test Port” button in Transmission.

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