Hi again
Weekend's over...

I was running into @SirCrow problems.


So I went and:
0. Re-flashed firmware and removed /tmp/hdd/root/opt, rebooted, installed your script, etc, and verified the problem was still there;
1. Created a new directory "config" under /mnt/C/Torrent
2. Removed (rm-rf) /tmp/hdd/root/opt/home/transmission/.config
3. Changed /opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission (changed CONFIGDIR=/mnt/C/Torrent/config)

settings.json now resides in /mnt/C/Torrent/config
Tweaked it to include authentication and so forth.
Changed root's and ryan's passwd
Rebooted a few times already

Tested ok.

I'm not sure about the watchdog. crontab -l returns no entries, so, although I checked /opt/etc/trans_watchdog.conf, I'm not sure whether it's doing anything.

Thanks for a great script!
What was in the beginning an issue with someone else's Transmission, that you kindly tried to help, is now a full and stable machine, just as I wanted it.

And I'm sorry that the mods merged my other posts into this thread...

Thanks
Jorge Ribeiro

Ok...
Spoke too soon...
I need to get into that watchdog thing, as it seems to be restarting the transmission service every now and then (5 minutes?).
I'm not sure if that's the case, but transmission restarts verification of a partially downloaded file from 0%, never reaching to the download stage.

Also, I'm still getting those "Function not implemented" and "Input/output error"

Should I turn to transmissionbt forum?

Thanks
JR

if i recall correctly, that was the error messages i had when a downloaded file became corrupted. try changing the "download to" folder, create a new one, and see if it works.

Yes, it may be that... None of the new torrents, added after the system became stable, has these errors.
Will keep an eye.
Also removed the watchdog completely. I like to stay in control myself, and the watchdog was giving me a hard time.
Same for the movemedia script, on the hourly cron

Thanks all, hope this is it now!
JR

Could you please elaborate on that? If I know what was going wrong it may help me to improve on the script. Maybe not enough to let you use it again, but maybe for others....

Absolutely, @Frater!

Watchdog was running every minute, right?
Thing is, my system still hangs every now and then (@mod: it's not optware or anything related, 'cause it does the same with vanilla firmware and btpd, or even just copying files with samba, so don't go crazy moving or editing this post, please).
When it hangs, some torrent downloads get abruptly interrupted. So, when the system reboots, Transmission goes through the normal "Veryfing local data" cycle.
As this cycle takes some time, the watchdog kicks in the middle, and seems to restart transmission-daemon. Although I tried to go through /opt/usr/sbin/trans_watchdog and figure out exactly what it does, I'm not script enabled so to me what matters is that, in the web interface, the "Veryfing local data" cycle starts from zero and I could never get it to restart the download.
I did forget to watch running time of the daemon to see if it really starts over again.

So, as a workaround, I disabled the watchdog, by unsetting its execute bit.
I found it strange that the transmission-daemon process restarted every minute, I thought it shouldn't and I can't find anything on your script that would do that, but as I could live without the other watchdog functions (very handy to some, but I prefer doing it by hand), I chose to disable them...

Btw, no more Input/Output or Function not implemented errors, it really was a set of corrupted torrents, after countless hangs of the system...
I'm not saying this: I did a renice 10 to each of the transmission PIDs currently running and the system seems much more responsive and apparently, more stable. Let's see tomorrow if I'm speaking too soon again... If not, I may be changing S90transmission to start the daemon with lower priority - if that's possible at all... (will be doing some investigation...)

Regards,
JR

Unfortunately I'm getting more and more of those, while AC Ryan doesn't fix the hanging issue.
The only way I'able to succeed is:
1- Attach directly to Windows XP machine
2- Run chkdsk /F e: (e: being the drive letter)
3- Unmount. Attach to linux box
4- Delete with rm -rf <dir_name>

Note that even after the chkdsk, if I try to get inside that folder with XP, I get a BSOD.

Hope it helps! At least it avoids backups->format->restore

JR

any advice on this?

You can do it, it works.
I was able to install optware perfectly following the same procedure.
The systems is probably a bit more stable, but I can't say for sure, as mine probably has an HW defect.
There's also ppstreaming available, provided you can read chinese (is that chinese?) and understand what ppstreaming is

Oh! And you also get unicgi back! (arghhh...)

Regards,
JR

@ Frater,

Is it possible to make the script interactive, only install a base system and by start of your script, ask if transmission, twonky, nzb.... must be installed and then create the appropriate directories and install the packages, startup scripts ......

I'm a little bit to ask!

Thanks.

Cheers
Kees