Public bug reported: Updating to 2.93-1ubuntu1~16.04.1ubuntu1 from the transmissionbt PPA causes transmission-daemon to fail.
-- Unit transmission-daemon.service has begun starting up. Mar 08 17:01:43 homeserver systemd[3085]: transmission-daemon.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/transmission-daemo -- Subject: Process /usr/bin/transmission-daemon could not be executed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- The process /usr/bin/transmission-daemon could not be executed and failed. -- -- The error number returned by this process is 3. Mar 08 17:01:43 homeserver systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER Mar 08 17:01:43 homeserver systemd[1]: Failed to start Transmission BitTorrent Daemon. -- Subject: Unit transmission-daemon.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit transmission-daemon.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. This first problem is resolved by changing User from transmission to debian-transmission - the user is incorrect. This does not get the daemon working, however: $ sudo apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up transmission-daemon (2.93-1ubuntu1~16.04.1ubuntu1) ... Job for transmission-daemon.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status transmission-daemon.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript transmission-daemon, action "start" failed. ● transmission-daemon.service - Transmission BitTorrent Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Thu 2018-03-08 17:07:23 GMT; 24ms ago Process: 3448 ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-debug (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 3448 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding Stopped (port-forwarding.c:180) Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) readnatpmpres...c:75) Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Stopping port fo...:270) Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.013] Port Forwarding State changed from "For...c:92) Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver transmission-daemon[3448]: [2018-03-08 17:07:23.014] RPC Server Stopped listening on 0.0.0.0...:874) Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver systemd[1]: Failed to start Transmission BitTorrent Daemon. Mar 08 17:07:23 homeserver systemd[1]: transmission-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state. Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. dpkg: error processing package transmission-daemon (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: transmission-daemon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have no idea what the problem is at this point. ** Affects: transmission Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: artful xenial ** Package changed: transmission (Ubuntu) => transmission -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754419 Title: transmission-daemon fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/transmission/+bug/1754419/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
