Transmission Upgrade Fail

What type of hardware are you using: Old laptop or computer
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.39
How are you able to access your server: SSH
Are you in a special context or did you perform specific tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?: I made a symbolic link from /home/yunohost.app/transmission directory to my ZFS drives /mnt/hermes/transmission/completed. I did this months ago.

Describe your issue

Tried to upgrade Transmission but it failed. Shows lots of messages like this and then eventually fails.

Warning: setfacl: /home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Torrents: Operation not supported
Warning: setfacl: /home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Torrents/completed: Operation not supported

Share relevant logs or error messages

https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/epujewomaw

On my side, I have transmission installed, with links too, but not the sames as you…

Here they are :

/home/yunohost.transmission → /home/yunohost.app/transmission

/home/yunohost.app/transmission → /mnt/disqueVert/yunohost.transmission

/home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Torrents → /home/yunohost.app/transmission/completed

/home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Torrent to download’ → /home/yunohost.app/transmission/watched

All links are made with ln -s and the /mnt/disqueVert disk is an ext4 USB drive.

I hope this can help…

I just opened the log link and found this :

2026-02-24 13:57:26,687: DEBUG - + groupadd -f multimedia
2026-02-24 13:57:26,701: DEBUG - + mkdir -p /home/yunohost.multimedia
2026-02-24 13:57:26,704: DEBUG - + mkdir -p /home/yunohost.multimedia/share
2026-02-24 13:57:26,708: DEBUG - + mkdir -p /home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Music
2026-02-24 13:57:26,712: DEBUG - + mkdir -p /home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Picture
2026-02-24 13:57:26,715: DEBUG - + mkdir -p /home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Video
2026-02-24 13:57:26,719: DEBUG - + mkdir -p /home/yunohost.multimedia/share/eBook
2026-02-24 13:57:27,068: DEBUG - + setfacl -RnL -m g:multimedia:rwX,g::rwX,o:r-X /home/yunohost.multimedia
2026-02-24 13:57:27,069: WARNING - setfacl: /home/yunohost.multimedia/share/Torrents: Operation not supported

Can you manually try to change rights on this folder or on any folder inside ?

Can you give us the commands/configuration for your ZFS drive ?

Maybe this could help : acl [Wiki ubuntu-fr] (it’s in french, but there should be other docs in other languages to be sure)

username@arkadi:/home/yunohost.multimedia/share$ ls -la
total 4
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 root root 60 Feb 24 13:57 .
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 root root 46 Feb 17 15:00 ..
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 root root 22 Sep 20 11:12 eBook
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 root root  0 Feb 13  2024 Music
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 root root  0 Feb 13  2024 Picture
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 31 Feb 24 13:57 Torrents -> /home/yunohost.app/transmission

Hmm. I never use, nor really paid much attention to these yunohost.multimedia folders. I didn’t do this symbolic link from Torrents. Maybe this is messing things up? Feels like it’s going Torrents → yunohost.app/transmission dir → my zfs drive in one chain. Maybe that’s not good.

What should I do exactly now? Transmission isn’t even installed anymore. Maybe just easier to try a fresh install?

Not sure exactly how to give succinct summary but these details might help. (outputs summarized to the data I think relevant)

$ zfs list
NAME                    USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
hermes                 4.63T  5.23T  89.7G  /mnt/hermes
hermes/transmission     160K  5.23T   160K  /mnt/hermes/transmission

Well, this doesn’t look good. Transmission folder has a number for the user and group. Hmm…

ls -la /mnt/hermes
total 246
drwxr-xr-x  12 root                root                 12 Nov  1 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x   1 root                root                 34 Jan 17 22:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root                root                  3 Nov 10 13:41 backup
drwxr-xr-x   8 root                root                  8 Nov  7  2024 immich-photos
drwxr-xr-x   3 user               user                 3 Aug 18  2024 jellyfin
drwxrwxr-x   5                 996                 995   5 Sep 25 17:25 transmission
drwxr-xr-x  63 root                root                 64 Feb 13 15:43 TV_Shows

OK! I think I found something. I moved some files from my laptop (Bluefin (Fedora Silverblue base)) to Yunohost and I got some errors.

$ sudo mv Whistle /mnt/hermes/Music/
mv: preserving permissions for ‘/mnt/hermes/Music/Whistle/Whistle/1 - Whistle - Rest In Peace.mp3’: Operation not supported

I did some web searches and came up with stuff about ACLs. It says if you have + as a permission those are ACLs. I moved some more files from laptop to test. In the example below, Solomon Burke folder, has an ACL apparently.

$ ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 elias               elias                28 Feb 25 15:58 'Solomon Burke'

All my zfs datasets have aclmode set to discard. What mode do you have your ZFS set to? I need to research this apparently.

$ zfs get aclmode
hermes/transmission                                        aclmode   discard      default

I do not use ZFS at all, sorry :pensive_face:

I am happy you found something to search for, it looks really like a right management problem :slightly_smiling_face:

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