Comment 10 for bug 655024

It does not seem to be a reproducible bug on a freshly installed system so I cannot confirm it. How about removing the package and purging all configuration files then reinstalling? If you want you can do the following:::

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge transmission

........then search for any residual files from the program and remove if necessary

sudo find / -name transmission*

.........then reinstall the program

sudo apt-get install transmission

See if that corrects the problem.