transmission-daemon checks ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs of a non-root user

[Ken Sharp]

1. sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon

transmission-daemon installs. This is printed when it starts (which it does immediately):

[22:00:02.367] Couldn't read "/home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs": Permission denied

Why is it doing this? Even if I "sudo -s" before the install it's still checking the local user's config files. Why? Why has it picked this user? It shouldn't be doing this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: transmission-daemon 1.93-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-41.90-generic 2.6.32.59+drm33.24
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-41-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 21 22:00:29 2012
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: transmission

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Does not occur in the latest upstream beta.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/beta/ubuntu

[blackiwid (s-huchler)]

sorry it occures not after installation it accures when I try to start the deamon with sudo command from a user account... when I first sudo su then start it it works like it should

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that your report remained quite some time unanswered. Is this still an issue for any of the affected users?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for transmission (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Allan W. Macdonald (allan-w-macdonald)]

I installed transmission-daemon version 1.93 (10621) on a headless server running 10.04lts, following the instructions here:

http://1000umbrellas.com/2010/10/04/updated-transmission-installationconfiguration-on-ubuntu-server

and I am seeing the exact same issue.

I am having anotherdifferent issue as well but I will report that separately.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop ISO of the development release - Saucy Salamander. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for transmission (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[zenon (zenon222)]

This issue is ocuring with Ubuntu 13.10