Transmission permission denied как исправить

I installed Xubuntu and transmission daemon, set the download path to my home/user/TV shows, and get a permission denied when trying to download torrents through the transmission.

I tried chmod -r 777 on this folder without success.

Please help!

Following is the output of ps -ef | grep transmission

chen@htpc:~$ ps -ef | grep transmission
109       1023     1  1 21:46 ?        00:00:35 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info

chen@htpc:~$ ps aux | grep transmission
109       1023  3.2  0.4  47684 16620 ?        Ssl  21:46   1:20     /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
chen      1852  0.0  0.0   4200   772 pts/0    S+   22:27   0:00 grep --color=auto transmission

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Check if you’re using an “incomplete” folder.
The error can be misleading in this case and it may be the incomplete folder you do not have write access to.

answered Nov 23, 2016 at 13:21

This might be an apparmor profile problem. Transmission runs under the sanitized_helper profile in apparmor.

Look for complaints in /var/log/kern.log. grep transm /var/log/kern.log, particularly just after trying to run transmission and it failing.

answered Nov 23, 2012 at 23:58

my problem was that transmission somehow was running as the user “transmissions-daemon” instead of the user it was supposed to run with.

Make sure that the path for your incomplete torrents is absolute. My main directory was using ~/path-to-download, which gave me an error. My incomplete directory was ~/path-to-download/incomplete.

I received an error the first time I tried to download a torrent not using an absolute directory. I fixed that, but kept receiving a permission denied error, even after adding the correct permissions. Once I fixed my incomplete path to an absolute path, everything worked.

Mounting the external drive into my home directory resolved this issue;

sudo mkdir /home/plex/media-server
sudo chmod 770 /home/plex/media-server
sudo mount /dev/sdxx/ /home/plex/media-drive

sdxx is the name of your hdd. you can use the following command to find yours:

lsblk

I added the debian-transmission user to my $USER group:

sudo usermod -a -G <myusername> debian-transmission

answered Jun 26, 2022 at 19:27

In my case I have the “download-dir”, “incomplete-dir” (and “watch-dir”) situated in my home-directory.

(presume my userid is ‘[user]‘)

ls -la /home/[user]/Transmission results in:

drwxr-xr-x  5 [user] debian-transmission 4096 sep 17 21:21 ./
drwxr-x--- 19 [user] [user]              4096 sep 20 20:08 ../
drwxrwxr-x  3 [user] debian-transmission 4096 sep 18 23:04 Completed/
drwxrwxr-x  4 [user] debian-transmission 4096 sep 20 20:11 Incomplete/
drwxrwxr-x  2 [user] debian-transmission 4096 sep 17 21:21 Torrents/

As you can see the user debian-transmission has all the necessary permissions to write in those directories except… it has no read and execute permission on /home/[user] !!! So as a result, debian-transmission cannot access its subdirectories either.

• Lesson learned: check the permissions for the entire path ! Not just the final target directory !

There are now 3 options (choose one !):

1. Add the group [user] to the user debian-transmission (sudo usermod -a -G [user] debian-transmission)
2. Set x-permissions on world for /home/[user] (sudo chmod o+x /home/[user])
3. Stop the deamon, move the whole directory tree /home/[user]/Transmission to the home directory of debian-transmission. Set ownership of those directories to debian-transmission:debian-transmission. Edit /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json likewise. Add group debian-transmission to [user] and -finally- start the deamon again.

Option 1 and 2 have some minor security issues so option 3 is probably the best.

answered Sep 20, 2022 at 18:49

2022 and I had the same issue.

A simple sudo chown debian-transmission:debian-transmission -R /path/to/download solved it for me.

answered Dec 7, 2022 at 23:15

For those with custom locations, be sure you are applying chown to the original folder path and not a symlink.

sudo chown -R debian-transmission:debian-transmission /mnt/nas/downloads

NOT

sudo chown -R debian-transmission:debian-transmission /home/coolguy/nas/downloads

Add a 755

sudo chmod -R 755 /mnt/nas/downloads

I was able to get around the permissions issue by doing that. Also, no need to change the umask or 777 (or running as root, not a good plan).

Also, the latest transmission-daemon doesn’t seem to include and error log. Add this to your config file if you need some error output for debugging:

"log-error-file": "/var/log/transmission-error.log"

Be sure to restart

systemctl restart transmission-daemon

answered Jan 6 at 2:19

I had same issue, and that was a mistake I had made when sym-linking the transmission download directory to my home/user/ directory, I changed the ownership of the sym-linked file which by consequence also changed the ownership of the transmission ‘download’ directory…

I just chowned back to ‘debian-transmission’ ownership and it worked like a charm (without need to restart service)

#chown debian-transmission:debian-transmission /var/lib/transmission/downloads

(well, you’ll have to check according your own linux distribution what is the right owner and eventually also your right path to the downloads directory)

answered Dec 9, 2014 at 10:37

I had similar issue with transmission. I got Permission Error while downloading even with correct folder permission settings on the external USB HDD.

I just mounted the external HDD to the /home/pi/ with the same permissions and it worked fine.

mount /dev/sda /home/pi/USB-HDD-MOUNTED

permissions are drwxrwxrwx (0777) pi:debian-transmission.
user name is changed to pi in /etc/init.d/transmisssion-daemon.