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I tried to reproduce the issue and I couldn't. Are you still seeing it with an updated Ubuntu system? ** Changed in: transmission (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to transmission in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1016865 Title: transmission-daemon permission error Status in “transmission” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 Package version: precise. During installation of transmission-daemon, the following message appears: transmission-daemon (2.51-0ubuntu1) ... * Starting bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon [12:30:14.719] Couldn't read "/home/johan/.config/user-dirs.dirs": Permission denied Permission of that file is -rw------- . Expected result: either the permissions of the file need to be different at creation time or the program shouldn't try to access it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/1016865/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp