failed to get configuration settingup bitTorrent plugin

hello,
I'm new to linux but not to computers.
I've enabled the extras repository and installed the bitTorrent plugin via the plugins page within omv.

when i come to configure it, when i open the "Files and Locations" tab i get

Failed to get configuration (xpath=//services/transmissionbt/modules/filesandlocations)


Error #3003:
exception 'OMVException' with message 'Failed to get configuration (xpath=//services/transmissionbt/modules/filesandlocations)' in /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/transmissionbt.inc:232
Stack trace:
#0 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceTransmissionBT->getFilesAndLocations(NULL, Array)
#1 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpcservice.inc(125): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#2 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(62): OMVRpcServiceAbstract->callMethod('getFilesAndLoca...', NULL, Array)
#3 /usr/sbin/omv-engined(495): OMVRpc::exec('TransmissionBT', 'getFilesAndLoca...', NULL, Array, 1)
#4 {main}


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i'm not sure how to fix this and i've googled but nothing similar is jumping out at me.

I also don't appear to have a debian-tranmission group so i just chmod my download folder to 777 but this didn't seem to make a difference.

thanks for the advice. it's wierd!
when i log into the webgui of OMV i can see the bittorent service under services.
however when i go to Plugins, the Openmediavault-transmissionbt 0.5.18 is shown as not uinstalled.
when i try to install it i get

Zitat

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.

and it just hangs, i left it until the gui timed out, i also restarted OMV with nodifference.
I think i may have to manually uninstall it via ssh, but i'm unsure of the command to do that (uninstall, not connect via ssh).

Thanks for all your help David, as advised i did as you suggested, here is the output (i elected to get it to try and reinstall)

root@mediafiler:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up transmission-daemon (2.75-1-15~1.gbp4ed609) ...

Configuration file `/etc/default/transmission-daemon'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** transmission-daemon (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y
Installing new version of config file /etc/default/transmission-daemon ...
Starting bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemon[17:58:31.311] JSON parse failed in /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json at pos 657: STRAY_TOKEN -- remaining text ",
"incomplete-di"
(warning).
invoke-rc.d: initscript transmission-daemon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing transmission-daemon (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openmediavault-transmissionbt:
openmediavault-transmissionbt depends on transmission-daemon (>= 2.42); however:
Package transmission-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openmediavault-transmissionbt (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
transmission-daemon
openmediavault-transmissionbt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@mediafiler:~#

A bit more background about the machine, I don't think it's relevent but i'd like to give you too much information rather than not enough.
The machine is running on a two disk setup. One has the OS and the other holds all the data.
I have a backup.
two months ago my data drive started to die so i replaced it and restored from backup (manually recreating the share in omv then copying the data back).
everything has been fine, and it was only when i noticed that OMV was missing transmission that i tried to install.
missing is probably the wrong word. I'm unsure if it was ever there as about 8 months ago i rebuilt the os side to move to the latest version of OMV.
not sure if this is relevent but thought i'd mention it.

I tried running
root@mediafiler:~# apt-get --purge remove transmission-daemon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openmediavault-transmissionbt* transmission-daemon*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 1,034 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 31340 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openmediavault-transmissionbt ...
Purging configuration files for openmediavault-transmissionbt ...
Removing transmission-daemon ...
Stopping bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemon.
Purging configuration files for transmission-daemon ...
Processing triggers for openmediavault ...
Restarting engine daemon ...
Updating file permissions ...
Updating locale files ...

it spends a long time on updating locale files (i have no idea what thye are, i'm in australia; we use a metric system with a us keyboard)
on the OMV GUI it's long enough for the omv portal to time out.
in ssh it eventually completes.

[edited becuase i pasted the terminal window a billion times by mistake]

ok, i tried installing it again via the plugins

it spend a long time on updating locale, but i kept wiggling the mouse to prevent the session ending

aaaaHHHAAAA right, i've managed to configure it, and i can connect to it remotley via Tranmission Remote GUI
Thank you for all your help!

this was the log window output

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  transmission-daemon
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openmediavault-transmissionbt transmission-daemon
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/278 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1034 kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  transmission-daemon openmediavault-transmissionbt
Authentication warning overridden.
Selecting previously deselected package transmission-daemon.
(Reading database ... 31279 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking transmission-daemon (from .../transmission-daemon_2.75-1-15~1.gbp4ed609_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package openmediavault-transmissionbt.
Unpacking openmediavault-transmissionbt (from .../openmediavault-transmissionbt_0.5.18_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for openmediavault ...
Restarting engine daemon ...
Updating file permissions ...
Updating locale files ...
Setting up transmission-daemon (2.75-1-15~1.gbp4ed609) ...
Starting bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemon.
Setting up openmediavault-transmissionbt (0.5.18) ...
Updating init script links and actions
Stopping bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemon.
Updating configuration
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `transmission-daemon' overwrites defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `transmission-daemon' overwrites defaults (0 1 6).
Updating configuration
# Add modules section
Updating configuration
# Add modules/filesandlocations section
Updating configuration
# Add modules/bandwidth section
Updating configuration
# Add modules/queuing section
Updating configuration
# Add modules/peer section
Updating configuration
# Add modules/scheduling section
Updating configuration
# Add filesandlocations/paths section
# Add filesandlocations/paths/download section
# Add filesandlocations/paths/incomplete section
# Add filesandlocations/paths/watch section
Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
Add debian-transmission user to group: users
Write Config
Updating init script links and actions
Stopping transmission-daemon
Stopping bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemon.
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
Processing triggers for openmediavault ...
Restarting engine daemon ...
Updating file permissions ...
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `transmission-daemon' overwrites defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `transmission-daemon' overwrites defaults (0 1 6).
Updating locale files ...
Done ...