v4 update broke config

[tubbo]

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Current Behavior

I'm experiencing this exact error, but adding $PEERPORT doesn't fix it. https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/110n667/transmission_install_help/

After updating to v4, Transmission won't start with this cryptic error and keeps spamming the logs.

Expected Behavior

I should have been able to pull the image and have my config work without any changes. There were no breaking config changes announced in the Transmission v4.0.2 release, so I'm not sure what sorcery is happening here...But that's why I chose to make an issue here first, to rule out whether the configuration in this image was the problem before escalating further to the transmission project.

Steps To Reproduce

1. be running transmission on v3.00
2. update by pulling the latest image
3. 💥

Environment

- OS: arch linux
- How docker service was installed: pacman

CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation

transmission:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/transmission
    container_name: transmission
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
      # - TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME= #optional
      - USER="[REDACTED]"
      - PASS="[REDACTED]"
      # - WHITELIST= #optional
      - PEERPORT="51413" #optional
      # - HOST_WHITELIST= #optional
    volumes:
      - /srv/transmission:/config
      - /mnt/media/downloads:/downloads
      - /mnt/media/torrents:/watch
    ports:
      - '9091:9091'
      - '51413:51413'
      - '51413:51413/udp'
    expose: [9091,51413,51413/udp]
    healthcheck:
      test: |-
        curl --connect-timeout 15 --silent --show-error --fail http://localhost:9091
      interval: 1m00s
      timeout: 15s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 1m00s
    deploy:
      resources:
        limits:
          cpus: '0.50'
          memory: 512M
    labels:
      - "traefik.http.services.transmission.loadbalancer.server.port=9091"

Container logs

[migrations] started
[migrations] no migrations found
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      ██║     ███████╗██║██║   ██║
      ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
      ███████╗███████║██║╚██████╔╝
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GID/UID
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User UID:    1000
User GID:    1000
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[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
[2023-03-23 15:17:37.565] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.2/daemon/daemon.cc:914)
tail: invalid PID: ‘’
[2023-03-23 15:17:38.290] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.2/daemon/daemon.cc:914)
tail: invalid PID: ‘’
[2023-03-23 15:17:39.292] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.2/daemon/daemon.cc:914)
tail: invalid PID: ‘’
[2023-03-23 15:17:40.293] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading conf

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[ryant26]

Check the settings.json config file in your config directory to see if it is malformed.

I was getting the same error because I had used quotes in one of the environment variables. Those quotes were copied into the setting.json file and caused it to become invalid.

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