Public bug reported:
Fragments does not seem to work on Ubuntu 26.10 and returns a "Unable to
start transmission-daemon" error.
Here are more details from stdout:
ERROR fragments::backend::connection_manager > Unable to start
transmission-daemon: transmission authentication needed
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] ERR utils.cc:160 Couldn't read
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/user-dirs.dirs': Permission denied (13) (utils.cc:160)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] ERR utils.cc:160 Couldn't read
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/user-dirs.dirs': Permission denied (13) (utils.cc:160)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] inf ip-cache.cc:385 Cached IPv4 source address
10.0.2.15 (ip-cache.cc:385)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] inf ip-cache.cc:385 Cached IPv6 source address
fec0::5054:ff:feae:92bf (ip-cache.cc:385)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] ERR net.cc:357 Couldn't bind port 51413 on
0.0.0.0: Address already in use (98) -- Is another copy of Transmission already
running? (net.cc:357)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] ERR net.cc:357 Couldn't bind port 51413 on
fec0::5054:ff:feae:92bf: Address already in use (98) -- Is another copy of
Transmission already running? (net.cc:357)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] inf port-forwarding.cc:217 State changed from
'Not forwarded' to 'Starting' (port-forwarding.cc:217)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] inf tr-udp.cc:207 Bound UDP IPv4 address
0.0.0.0:51413 (tr-udp.cc:207)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.522+0200] inf tr-udp.cc:254 Bound UDP IPv6 address
[fec0::5054:ff:feae:92bf]:51413 (tr-udp.cc:254)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] inf rpc-server.cc:878 Added '127.0.0.1' to host
whitelist (rpc-server.cc:878)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] inf rpc-server.cc:878 Added '::1' to host
whitelist (rpc-server.cc:878)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] inf rpc-server.cc:1013 Serving RPC and Web
requests on 0.0.0.0:9091/transmission/ (rpc-server.cc:1013)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] inf rpc-server.cc:1018 Whitelist enabled
(rpc-server.cc:1018)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] inf rpc-server.cc:1037 Serving RPC and Web
requests from '/usr/share/transmission/public_html' (rpc-server.cc:1037)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] inf daemon.cc:865 Loading settings from
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/fragments' (daemon.cc:865)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] ERR utils.cc:160 Couldn't read
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/user-dirs.dirs': Permission denied (13) (utils.cc:160)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] ERR utils.cc:160 Couldn't read
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/user-dirs.dirs': Permission denied (13) (utils.cc:160)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] ERR utils.cc:140 Couldn't read
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/fragments/settings.json': No such file or directory
(2) (utils.cc:140)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] ERR variant.cc:587 Couldn't save
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/fragments/settings.json': Permission denied (13)
(variant.cc:587)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] ERR variant.cc:587 Couldn't save
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/fragments/bandwidth-groups.json': Permission denied
(13) (variant.cc:587)
[2026-10-10T13:36:37.523+0200] ERR utils.cc:140 Couldn't read
'/home/asciiwolf/.config/fragments/queue.json': No such file or directory (2)
(utils.cc:140)
[2026-10-10T13:36:38.002+0200] inf ip-cache.cc:220 Cached IPv4 global address
37.188.218.100 (ip-cache.cc:220)
[2026-10-10T13:36:38.207+0200] inf ip-cache.cc:220 Cached IPv6 global address
2a00:102a:5053:f37d:b32f:7acf:18a5:74b9 (ip-cache.cc:220)
** Affects: fragments (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: stonking
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