transmission-daemon-service-type not serving web interface

The documentation for transmission-daemon-service-type makes it sound like the

web interface should be up and running:

Once the service is started, users can interact with the daemon

through its Web interface (at ‘http://localhost:9091/’)...

However, the daemon throws 404 when accessing said url:

404: Not Found

Couldn't find Transmission's web interface files!

Users: to tell Transmission where to look, set the TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME environment variable to the folder where the web interface's index.html is located.

Package Builders: to set a custom default at compile time, #define PACKAGE_DATA_DIR in libtransmission/platform.c or tweak tr_getClutchDir() by hand.

Anyone else seeing this?

Just for good measure, here is my config:

(transmission-daemon-configuration

(rpc-authentication-required? #t)

(rpc-username "transmission")

(rpc-password "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")

(rpc-whitelist-enabled? #t)

(rpc-whitelist '("::1" "127.0.0.1" "192.168.*"))

(encryption 'require-encrypted-connections)

(alt-speed-down (* 1024 1)) ; 1MB/s

(alt-speed-up 512)

(alt-speed-time-enabled? #t)

(alt-speed-time-day 'weekdays)

(alt-speed-time-begin (* 60 8))

(alt-speed-time-end (* 60 19))

(watch-dir-enabled? #t)

(watch-dir "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/torrents"))

I am seeing the same thing once I updated Guix. This was not broken a year

ago. Unfortunately, Guix maintainers are slow enough that your best bet is

to simply downgrade to a Guix commit from a year ago.

The necessary files are in the "gui" output, with a relative path of

"/share/transmission/public_html". It seems to have been fixed by Clément

Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> in commit

27ec9eeceb971afe11aae4f24ceb8764f1735634 (who I CCed to this) which

predates this bug report and my own experience, which is weird, implying

that the fix has somehow gotten broken again afterwards somehow.

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 7:39?AM Alan Manuel Gloria <almkglor@gmail.com>

wrote:

On Sun, Nov 26 2023, Alan Manuel Gloria wrote:

Hi, does it work if you just run `transmission-daemon -f` (and maybe you

can try `guix shell -CN transmission -- transmission-daemon -f` to be

sure the correct one is used) and browse http://localhost:9091?

Also, on which guix commit are you?

Thanks,

Clément

Just did a `guix pull` and rebuilt the system with `guix system

reconfigure` (which took a few days, seems there was a lot of changes), and

now the transmission web UI is working. So probably I was just before that

change.

Can probably close this bug.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:51?AM Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>

wrote:

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, at 2:44 AM, Alan Manuel Gloria wrote:

!!

Alright, closed!