[LIVE] HOW-TO get BitTorrent download/management via WebUI Guide working on XBMC Live

evanl81 · 2011-04-17 20:38

Can someone who had permission problems and fixed them explain how, please? I've done everything in the guide. All works as it should, but I still get "permission denied" when trying to add torrents.

EDIT: Reformatting my external drive as ext4 (was fat32) and going through this guide again solved it. I bet there's an easier way.

EDIT AGAIN!: Now it's back to not working again.

DejaVu · 2011-04-21 00:28

How do I install Transmission?

This is what I tried -

Code:

xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon

[sudo] password for xbmc:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

transmission-daemon is already the newest version.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Setting up transmission-daemon (2.05-0ubuntu0.2) ...

 * Starting bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon                               invoke-rc.d: initscript transmission-daemon, action "start" failed.

dpkg: error processing transmission-daemon (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Errors were encountered while processing:

 transmission-daemon

Does it no longer work?

Steve Jol · 2011-05-08 23:04

Yep, struggling like some of you guys, access denied when commencing a torrent.

Have googled around a bit an not having much luck, any other guides around, rtorrent maybe?

danz0l · 2011-05-31 08:55

Went to set up transmission 2.x using their ppa's. Everything installed perfect but my troubles began changes the user. I edited the transmission-daemon /etc/init.d script and popped in xbmc as user but it refused to launch. I tried all sorts including setting a new config directory using the -g command but no go. After that i purged the init.d script de-installed transmission and re-installed (hoping an updated init.d script would get installed as this one was possibly from an older version). Now i haven't got an init.d script at all and i dont know how to force apt-get or aptitude to re-install it. I tried the one on their website (totally different) but that didnt work very well Sad

Can anyone send me their init.d transmission script so i can at least start from the beginning again ? Would really appreciate it.

luger · 2011-08-28 20:44

engstedt Wrote:I dont manage to get the permissions on the folder right. I followed the guide but get permission denied.

when i use ls -la on the specific folder i get

xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ ls -la Downloads
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 xbmc debian-transmission 4096 2011-02-09 23:19 .
drwxr-xrw- 15 xbmc xbmc 4096 2011-02-09 23:19 ..

i´ve tried to give everyone permissions with the chmod -a+rw but it dont seems to work either.

Any suggestions?

I'm having the same problem here with permissions. I've seen a few other people note a similar problem. Does anyone know how to resolve this? I successfully download torrents but cannot move them unless I log into WinSCP as root because of permission restraints.

I've done chmod 777 on the folder and done as was listed in this guide but cannot get any torrents to download with the correct permissions.

luger · 2011-09-10 02:42

Can anyone help with this? I know when I do an XBMCFreak install, it's already set up correctly but I'm trying this as a fresh install and can't get the permissions right for Transmission.

calebdk · 2011-09-10 08:52

luger Wrote:Can anyone help with this? I know when I do an XBMCFreak install, it's already set up correctly but I'm trying this as a fresh install and can't get the permissions right for Transmission.

Well i got mine working just fine maybe this will help you but i dont want to be held responsible for anything Big Grin

Sudo chmod 777 /Downloads - R
sudo chown xbmc:xbmc /Downloads -R
sudo chmod g+s /Downloads -R
sudo chmod u+s /Downloads -R

If this dont work try go into "sudo nano /etc/profile" and change umask in the bottom to 0000

TheHazel3yes · 2011-09-10 14:49

I too had the problem that all downloads belonged to the debian-transmission user. Chmod 777 is no clean solution, so I did the following to change the user of transmission to my xbmc user:

sudo nano /etc/default/transmission-daemon
- CONFIG_DIR="/home/xbmc/.config/transmission"
sudo nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
- USER=xbmc

You now have to put a copy of the config file in your home folder of course.

I found out that measures other than that didn't work for me, so maybe you have luck with my guide too.

d0m1nation · 2011-10-05 11:52

I'm currently setting up xbmc autostart with transmission-daemon and I'm using transmission-remote-gui to control it (http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/)
this seemed to be the perfect solution for me because I cannot live with a torrent client on which I cannot specify the download directory for individual torrents.
It's scary to me that people actually think a default download directory is "the perfect solution".
Anyway..

Transmission-remote-gui has a built in support for choosing download destination for individual torrents but it has a very strange path mapping system I just can't figure out.

Quote:Examples:
/share=\\pch\share
/var/downloads/music=Z:\music

There's no information on how to properly set this up anywhere, they don't even have a wiki on their page. So if anyone could figure this out i would be eternally grateful.

Steve Jol Junior Member Posts: 26 Joined: Apr 2011 Reputation: 0	2011-05-08 23:04 Post: #43 Yep, struggling like some of you guys, access denied when commencing a torrent. Have googled around a bit an not having much luck, any other guides around, rtorrent maybe?
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luger Member Posts: 82 Joined: Apr 2010 Reputation: 0	2011-09-10 02:42 Post: #46 Can anyone help with this? I know when I do an XBMCFreak install, it's already set up correctly but I'm trying this as a fresh install and can't get the permissions right for Transmission.
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