transmission
Can no longer rename a torrent on initial opening (crashes)
What is the issue?
Starting a torrent from a .torrent file, it is no longer possible to rename the folder or file until it starts downloading. This was possible on 3. It was only until just recently that Ubuntu upgraded me to Transmission 4. I find this incredibly annoying, and if I want to revert back to 3 I have to research how to do that now, as I'm still kind of new to Linux in general.
On 2.94, I think I remember having this issue too. The difference on 4.0.2 is that the entire client actually crashes, as opposed to just not letting me rename the folder until later.
Which application of Transmission?
GTK+ app on Linux, BSD, etc.
Which version of Transmission?
4.0.2
I can't reproduce it. Does it happen with all the torrents you open? Are any of those torrents public and legit so that you can share them?
That's not a good sign. What OS did you try to reproduce it with? Was it a live USB?
Here's me showing the error with the torrent for Ubuntu 22.10's official iso.
(Edit: I just want to clarify I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the torrent I'm loading in the below webm is the 22.10 iso, which is irrelevant)
and to answer your question yes, it appears to happen with any torrent i throw at it
I tried using current main branch (post-4.0.2) on Gentoo with GTK 3.24.37 and 4.10.1. Will check out on Ubuntu, thanks for emphasizing that.
There is another possibly extraneous factor in my situation. I use an application firewall called OpenSnitch to bind my Transmission client to my VPN. To make this work on their software, I had to route all traffic from systemd-resolved to port 53. Then I made a rule that routed all of Transmission's traffic to the VPN interface with loopback, like so: (lo|my-vpn)$. Then I had to create another rule to block all traffic from Transmission
I don't know if this is relevant, because Transmission was working just fine before the update. It also lets me rename files later so I don't know if this is really a systemd issue. Although I will say that ever since I applied the firewall, if I change locations on the VPN while Transmission is running it causes a crash, regardless of version. I'm also on Ubuntu 22.04, don't think I mentioned that before
I believe I have related issue. I'm using version 4.0.2 on Kubuntu 23.10. Transmission consistently hangs on renaming folder on initial opening. After I forcibly kill the process and restart Transmission I see that torrent has been added and is in active state.
Still happens in transmission 4.0.5
Could you guy please tell me which previous version didn't have this bug?
Still happens in transmission 4.0.5
Could you guy please tell me which previous version didn't have this bug?
It didn't happen in 3.0 for me. I'm considering reverting back
@mikedld Still happens for me on 4.0.5 (a6fe2a64aa) on Kubuntu 24.02. Do you want to give me debug version of the client so I can gather detailed crashdump for you ?