Group name "debian-transmission" for transmission-daemon is too long

[BTR]

Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

transmission-daemon:
  Installed: 2.51-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.51-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.51-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I decided to run Transmission in headless mode using transmission-daemon. While following an online guide I noticed that I was not being added to the "debian-transmission" group that I was assigning the download directories to. It took me a while but I noticed that when looking at the group properties dialog box within "Users and Groups" and in /etc/group that the name was truncated to just "debian-transmiss".

You'll notice that this is 16 characters, which I believe is a limit on many Unix-like systems for groupnames and it would appear to be here too. On renaming the group I was able to successfully assign my user to it. The original configuration by design is simply "transmission" and I know it's probably a convention to prefix users of this nature with debian upstream, but in this case it appears to be causing trouble.

Thanks for reading this far and have a good evening (or day).

Cheers!

[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 it took so long to get an answer.

I've tried to reproduce your bug, but in an updated system the group was created correctly in /etc/group. If you still see this bug in your system please click ALT-F2 and run the following command to get more debug information

appport-collect 999334

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for your bug report. Can you please try the latest version of transmission from this ppa https://launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/+archive/ppa and let us know if its still an issue for you.

[BTR (tomasoceallaigh)]

Hi guys,
I reconfigured Transmission after a clean install of 12.10 and this issue
didn't present itself. This appears to be fixed now with the latest Ubuntu
release.

Thank you for your time.
Tom.
On Jan 17, 2013 2:41 PM, "Omer Akram" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your bug report. Can you please try the latest version of
> transmission from this ppa
> https://launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/+archive/ppa and let us know if
> its still an issue for you.
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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