I'm running the latest Raspbian distribution and just installed the transmission
packages.
However, whenever I run a transmission-remote
command - say, to alter some base configurations - I keep getting the same error:
$ transmission-remote -DU -c required -p 9091 -w ~/torrents
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User: deflate, gzip
I can't find any good docs or tutorials out there to troubleshoot with, and I suspect I missed out on a step in the initial setup process which has resulted in this error. I'll already tried setting a username/password, i.e.
$ transmission-remote --auth myusername:mypassword
which succeeded, but it's still throwing the same "Unexpected response" error for all other commands.
Starting transmission-daemon
doesn't work either:
$ service transmission-daemon start
[....] Starting bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemonstart-stop-daemon: unable to set gid to 110 (Operation not permitted)
failed!
Does anyone have an idea of why this might be happening?
It happened the same thing with me, what I did:
First off, remove all transmission in your distro;
apt-get remove transmission-daemon
Second, obvious, install again transmission, but You need to install transmission-daemon tand the packages like transmission-remote, that's what you will use.
apt-get install transmission-daemon
Stop the process:
/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop
Desactived the AUTH:
nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
edit this line:
rpc-authentication-required: false
Restart the process:
/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon restart/start
Execute this:
transmission-remote -l
If it work, none message will be shown. Now, you use a magnet link for test:
transmission-remote -a 'Magnet link'
Success message:
localhost:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: "success"
Links:
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/setting-up-transmission-remote-gui-in.html https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki