A Transmission Bug

[flickeringsight]

One of the first Amahi apps I installed was Transmission, I use it on my iMac and it's a great torrent client. The Amahi interface is just Transmission's web interface, which is great for general use, but lacks a lot of preference settings that I like to adjust, like adding blocklists and defining the folder for incomplete downloads.

I noticed that Transmission comes installed in Fedora 12 so I launched that version to take a look and wondered if I changed the prefs in that application if it would effect the Amahi version - it doesn't. I'll tell you what it will do; at the next restart Fedora hangs at the load screen. Pressing ESC while stuck at the load screen to see the list of processes loaded, the last one on was '...Transmission daemon loading' so I figured there was a conflict between the two versions of Transmission and one must die. SSHing in from my iMac I figured I could kill one or both of the processes and unstick Fedora but that didn't work so I thought about editing or deleting the config file for Transmission so it wouldn't launch it's daemon at startup, although this may work in theory my Terminal skills aren't up to snuff.

Luckily there's an easy solution. Amahi's web interface had loaded and I was able to access the Dashboard from my iMac and uninstall Transmission. I gave a # reboot command via terminal and Fedora restarted normally. I reinstalled Amahi's Transmission (because I'm stubborn like that), crossed my fingers, restarted and this time it did not hang.

After this I decided to try and locate Amahi Transmission's config file to manually tweek preferences but could not find it. My question is this: Is it possible to do more advanced preference tweeking for Amahi's Transmission, and if so - how?

[cpg]

The hang is troubling and deserves a bug of its own!
(please file it)

The transmission options have been discussed, but i guess we need more active improvement of this app. It's a brilliant user interface.

See bug 207 (which btw, is stuck in feedback!)

[flickeringsight]

Previously I had difficulty with the Transmission daemon causing a hang on startup, but now the same thing is happening with uShare! I restarted my HDA and it hung on startup just as before, upon pressing ESC to check the process loading screen I saw the last item on the list was...

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Starting atd: [OK]

...which meant the process after atd was hanging. So I SSH'd into the HDA and sent the command...

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$ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d | grep -A 20 atd

...in order to get a list of the next few processes scheduled load after atd to which this returned:

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-01-15 23:23 S95atd -> ../init.d/atd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-01-16 21:39 S96amahi-ushare -> ../init.d/amahi-ushare lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2010-01-15 23:45 S98monit -> ../init.d/monit lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2010-01-16 15:50 S99local -> ../rc.local

So I tried the same trick as with Transmission of going thru the Dashboard interface to uninstall uShare. Unfortunately that just hung there with no indication it uninstalled so I went into the servers setting for uShare uncheck the 'watchdog' and 'start at boot time', and rebooted the system. It restarted normally. I've since tried uninstalling and reinstalling uShare only to have the same hang happen.

Seriously, what the hell? I'm at a loss. The HDA has a fresh Fedora 12 install, followed by Amahi and then all the Fedora system updates. I even tried booting with the pre-update kernel just to see if that helped but it did not.