Does Not Download Newly Added Torrents Unless Container Restarted First

[LarsaSolidor]

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Describe the problem

When new torrents are added to transmission, they do not download until the container is restarted. They begin downloading immediately after a container restart.

Add your docker run command or docker-compose file

  transmission-vpn:
    container_name: transmission-vpn
    image: haugene/transmission-openvpn:latest
    restart: always
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "10005:9091"
      - "10015:8888"
    dns:
      - 209.222.18.222
      - 209.222.18.218
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ${DATASTOREDIR}/transmission/transmission-vpn:/data
      - ${MEDIADIR}/Downloads/Completed:/data/completed
      - ${MEDIADIR}/Downloads/Incomplete:/data/incomplete
    healthcheck:
      start_period: "10s"
      interval: "5s"
    env_file:
      - .env
    networks:
      - traefik_proxy
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.transmission-router.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.transmission-router.rule=Host(`transmission.${DOMAINNAME}`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.transmission-router.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.transmission-router.middlewares=chain-no-auth@file"
      - "traefik.http.routers.transmission-router.service=transmission-svc"
      - "traefik.http.services.transmission-svc.loadbalancer.server.port=9091"

Logs

Starting container with revision: f13eb3e908521a5d0f7a51e965fd5ad028e4ab49
One or more OVERRIDE_DNS addresses found. Will use them to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf
Creating TUN device /dev/net/tun
mknod: /dev/net/tun: File exists
Using OpenVPN provider: PIA
Provider PIA has a custom setup script, executing it
Downloading OpenVPN config bundle openvpn-tcp into temporary file /tmp/tmp.NekkNL
Extract OpenVPN config bundle into PIA directory /etc/openvpn/pia
No VPN configuration provided. Using default.
Modifying /etc/openvpn/pia/default.ovpn for best behaviour in this container
Setting OpenVPN credentials...
adding route to local network 174.24.24.0/24 via 172.24.24.1 dev eth0
adding route to local network 192.168.0.0/24 via 172.24.24.1 dev eth0
2021-02-09 17:41:03 DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'aes-128-cbc' but missing in --data-ciphers (AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add 'aes-128-cbc' to --data-ciphers or change --cipher 'aes-128-cbc' to --data-ciphers-fallback 'aes-128-cbc' to silence this warning.
2021-02-09 17:41:03 OpenVPN 2.5.0 x86_64-alpine-linux-musl [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Dec 26 2020
2021-02-09 17:41:03 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1i  8 Dec 2020, LZO 2.10
2021-02-09 17:41:03 NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
2021-02-09 17:41:03 CRL: loaded 1 CRLs from file -----BEGIN X509 CRL-----
***
-----END X509 CRL-----

2021-02-09 17:41:03 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]**.**.**.**:502
2021-02-09 17:41:03 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]**.**.**.**:502 [nonblock]
2021-02-09 17:41:03 TCP connection established with [AF_INET]**.**.**.**:502
2021-02-09 17:41:03 TCP_CLIENT link local: (not bound)
2021-02-09 17:41:03 TCP_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]**.**.**.**:502
2021-02-09 17:41:03 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
2021-02-09 17:41:04 [oslo401] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]**.**.**.**:502
2021-02-09 17:41:05 sitnl_send: rtnl: generic error (-101): Network unreachable
2021-02-09 17:41:05 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
2021-02-09 17:41:05 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
2021-02-09 17:41:05 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up
2021-02-09 17:41:05 /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 10.18.111.19/24
2021-02-09 17:41:05 /etc/openvpn/tunnelUp.sh tun0 1500 1555 10.18.111.19 255.255.255.0 init
Up script executed with tun0 1500 1555 10.18.111.19 255.255.255.0 init
Updating TRANSMISSION_BIND_ADDRESS_IPV4 to the ip of tun0 : 10.18.111.19
Using Transmission Web Control  UI, overriding TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME
Updating Transmission settings.json with values from env variables
Using existing settings.json for Transmission /data/transmission-home/settings.json
Overriding alt-speed-down because TRANSMISSION_ALT_SPEED_DOWN is set to 5000
Overriding alt-speed-time-begin because TRANSMISSION_ALT_SPEED_TIME_BEGIN is set to 540
Overriding alt-speed-time-day because TRANSMISSION_ALT_SPEED_TIME_DAY is set to 127
Overriding alt-speed-time-enabled because TRANSMISSION_ALT_SPEED_TIME_ENABLED is set to true
Overriding alt-speed-time-end because TRANSMISSION_ALT_SPEED_TIME_END is set to 1410
Overriding alt-speed-up because TRANSMISSION_ALT_SPEED_UP is set to 1500
Overriding bind-address-ipv4 because TRANSMISSION_BIND_ADDRESS_IPV4 is set to 10.18.111.19
Overriding download-dir because TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_DIR is set to /data/completed
Overriding download-queue-enabled because TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_QUEUE_ENABLED is set to false
Overriding encryption because TRANSMISSION_ENCRYPTION is set to 1
Overriding incomplete-dir because TRANSMISSION_INCOMPLETE_DIR is set to /data/incomplete
Overriding peer-limit-global because TRANSMISSION_PEER_LIMIT_GLOBAL is set to 480
Overriding port-forwarding-enabled because TRANSMISSION_PORT_FORWARDING_ENABLED is set to true
Overriding ratio-limit because TRANSMISSION_RATIO_LIMIT is set to 3
Overriding ratio-limit-enabled because TRANSMISSION_RATIO_LIMIT_ENABLED is set to true
Overriding rpc-authentication-required because TRANSMISSION_RPC_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED is set to true
Overriding rpc-enabled because TRANSMISSION_RPC_ENABLED is set to true
Overriding rpc-password because TRANSMISSION_RPC_PASSWORD is set to [REDACTED]
Overriding rpc-port because TRANSMISSION_RPC_PORT is set to 9091
Overriding rpc-username because TRANSMISSION_RPC_USERNAME is set to transmission
Overriding rpc-whitelist because TRANSMISSION_RPC_WHITELIST is set to 127.0.0.*,192.168.0.*,172.24.24.*
Overriding rpc-whitelist-enabled because TRANSMISSION_RPC_WHITELIST_ENABLED is set to true
Overriding scrape-paused-torrents-enabled because TRANSMISSION_SCRAPE_PAUSED_TORRENTS_ENABLED is set to false
Overriding speed-limit-down because TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_DOWN is set to 8000
Overriding speed-limit-down-enabled because TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_DOWN_ENABLED is set to true
Overriding speed-limit-up because TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_UP is set to 1900
Overriding speed-limit-up-enabled because TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_UP_ENABLED is set to true
Overriding umask because TRANSMISSION_UMASK is set to 777
Overriding watch-dir because TRANSMISSION_WATCH_DIR is set to /data/watch
sed'ing True to true
Enforcing ownership on transmission config directories
Applying permissions to transmission config directories
Setting owner for transmission paths to 1000:1000
Setting permission for files (644) and directories (755)
Setting permission for watch directory (775) and its files (664)

-------------------------------------
Transmission will run as
-------------------------------------
User name:   abc
User uid:    1000
User gid:    1000
-------------------------------------

STARTING TRANSMISSION
Transmission startup script complete.
STARTING TINYPROXY
Found config file /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf, updating settings.
Setting tinyproxy port to 8888
tinyproxy is on the PATH, run it
WARNING: logging deactivated (can't log to stdout when daemonized)
Tinyproxy startup script complete.
2021-02-09 17:41:05 WARNING: OpenVPN was configured to add an IPv6 route. However, no IPv6 has been configured for tun0, therefore the route installation may fail or may not work as expected.
2021-02-09 17:41:05 add_route_ipv6(2000::/3 -> :: metric -1) dev tun0
RTNETLINK answers: Permission denied
2021-02-09 17:41:05 ERROR: Linux route -6 add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2
2021-02-09 17:41:05 Initialization Sequence Completed

Host system:

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Docker version 20.10.3, build 48d30b5

[pkishino]

check #1355 , think this might help

[LarsaSolidor]

check #1355 , think this might help

The --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0 fix suggested in #1355 hasn't resolved the issue.

[CurtC2]

Likely this is the same issue that has been plaguing transmission-vpn on PIA since the fall where no trackers can be contacted after initial container creation/start. Can replicate at will and I am not experiencing the ipv6 route add permission denied result on my environment:

dc stop transmission-vpn dc up -d transmission-vpn [All scrape attempts to http and udp trackers will with 'cannot connect', indefinitely] dc restart transmission-vpn [trackers immediately scrape, voila. Until next time]

Of course this was all recently exacerbated by #1725, back to above after the fix w/adding --dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8 to the OPENVPN_OPTS documented there.

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[CurtC2]

Still an issue. Every time my containers update themselves, I have to issue a docker-compose restart on transmission-vpn to get DNS resolution working.

[andreixk]

still an issue

[pkishino]

is this still an issue with the dev branch? dev is based on ubuntu and has fixed a few dns issues..

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[CurtC2]

Looks like dev has gone to latest now. I just did some testing and my recreate from above now works fine - no longer requiring a restart for UDP trackers to work. Seems fixed from what I can tell.

[nowkillkennys]

same issue here