transmission-daemon fails

[Ken Sharp]

Updating to 2.93-1ubuntu1~16.04.1ubuntu1 from the transmissionbt PPA causes transmission-daemon to fail.

-- Unit transmission-daemon.service has begun starting up.
Mar 08 17:01:43 homeserver systemd[3085]: transmission-daemon.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/transmission-daemo
-- Subject: Process /usr/bin/transmission-daemon could not be executed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- The process /usr/bin/transmission-daemon could not be executed and failed.
--
-- The error number returned by this process is 3.
Mar 08 17:01:43 homeserver systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Mar 08 17:01:43 homeserver systemd[1]: Failed to start Transmission BitTorrent Daemon.
-- Subject: Unit transmission-daemon.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit transmission-daemon.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.

This first problem is resolved by changing User from transmission to debian-transmission - the user is incorrect.

This does not get the daemon working, however:

$ sudo apt -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up transmission-daemon (2.93-1ubuntu1~16.04.1ubuntu1) ...
Job for transmission-daemon.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status transmission-daemon.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript transmission-daemon, action "start" failed.
● transmission-daemon.service - Transmission BitTorrent Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Thu 2018-03-08 17:07:23 GMT; 24ms ago
  Process: 3448 ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-debug (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 3448 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding Stopped (port-forwarding.c:180)
Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) readnatpmpres...c:75)
Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Stopping port fo...:270)
Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding State changed from "For...c:92)
Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.014] RPC Server Stopped listening on 0.0.0.0...:874)
Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver systemd[1]: Failed to start Transmission BitTorrent Daemon.
Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state.
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dpkg: error processing package transmission-daemon (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 transmission-daemon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have no idea what the problem is at this point.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

E-mailed transmissionbt list.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Looks like it's already been noticed.
https://lists.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/msg00007.html

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Fixed:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/transmission/ppa-xenial/revision/81
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/transmission/ppa-artful/revision/81