transmission-daemon overwrites settings.json symlink
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transmission |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
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transmission (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
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transmission (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: transmission
Upstream, in order to fix http://
has changed the way that settings.json file is saved (see
http://
overwrites /var/lib/
the real file on both receiving HUP signal and exiting. After
transmission-daemon is restarted users' changes made
to /etc/transmissi
ignored.
There are three possible fixes proposed in the upstream ticket, the last
one does look like the safest route.
Reporting on Launchpad to keep track of it for the possible SRU.
TEST CASE:
1) With transmission-daemon 1.92-0ubuntu2 installed do:
- make sure that daemon is running (sudo service transmission-daemon restart)
- run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
- /var/lib/
2) purge package transmission-daemon (it will remove user configuration but there is no safe way of checking whether /var/lib/
3) install transmission-daemon 1.93-0ubuntu0.
- run sudo killall -HUP transmission-daemon
- make sure that /var/lib/
Changed in transmission (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in transmission: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in transmission (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in transmission: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in transmission (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in transmission (Debian): | |
status: | Fix Released → New |
description: | updated |
Changed in transmission (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
tags: | added: testcase |
Raising Importance as the bug is affecting all transmission-daemon users. I'd say it's a perfect candidate for the SRU if we can get a clear fix.