[BUG] Unable to Start Transmission

[matdave]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

I just noticed that my transmission hasn't been able to start. I haven't changed anything, but I am suddenly getting:

[2025-12-08 16:01:53.428] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.6/daemon/daemon.cc:914)

tail: invalid PID: ‘’

Expected Behavior

No response

Steps To Reproduce

I am not sure what is wrong with the config in order to reproduce. I have seen similar errors related to umask, but I don't have that set.

Environment

- OS: Fedora 43
- How docker service was installed: following docker guide for Fedora

CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation

version: '3.3'
services:
    transmission:
        image: linuxserver/transmission:latest
        container_name: transmission
        environment:
          - PUID=1000
          - PGID=1000
          - TZ=Etc/UTC
        volumes:
          - /mnt/wd/rrconfig/transmission-ls:/config
          - /mnt/wd/rrdata:/downloads
          - /mnt/wd/rrdata/watch:/watch
        ports:
          - 9096:9091
          - 51413:51413
          - 51413:51413/udp
        restart: unless-stopped

Container logs

[migrations] started

[migrations] no migrations found

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[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...

[2025-12-08 16:09:29.210] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.6/daemon/daemon.cc:914)

tail: invalid PID: ‘’

[2025-12-08 16:09:30.246] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.6/daemon/daemon.cc:914)

tail: invalid PID: ‘’

[2025-12-08 16:09:31.292] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.6/daemon/daemon.cc:914)

tail: invalid PID: ‘’

[2025-12-08 16:09:32.356] ERR transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (/home/buildozer/aports/community/transmission/src/transmission-4.0.6/daemon/daemon.cc:914)

tail: invalid PID: ‘’

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[matdave]

I didn't have any active downloads, so I just wiped my config directory, and recreated. That seems to have solved the issue.