Installed Transmission - Now Volumio Daemon wont start

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Hi,

I “succesffuly” installed transmission-daemon on my volumio and now my volumio is in a boot cycle in the web page…

Log says:

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers systemd[1]: Starting Volumio Streaming Daemon…

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers systemd[1]: Started Volumio Streaming Daemon.

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers volumio-streaming-daemon[8997]: ############################

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers volumio-streaming-daemon[8997]: # Volumio Streaming Daemon #

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers volumio-streaming-daemon[8997]: # Running on port 7777 #

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers volumio-streaming-daemon[8997]: ############################

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers systemd[1]: volumio-streaming-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers systemd[1]: Unit volumio-streaming-daemon.service entered failed state.

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers volumio-streaming-daemon[8997]: 2021/06/22 20:27:43 unknown property: VOLUMIO_VARIANT

Jun 22 20:27:43 multi-room-speakers systemd[1]: volumio-streaming-daemon.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.

Before I do a fresh install - is there anything I can do to fix?

Thanks

John

Volumio Information

Volumio Version: Latest
Hardware: RPI3+
DAC: HIFIBerry DAC +

2

It really depends on how much effort you want to spend :wink: Most cases it is faster to start from fresh.

PS: if you did apt upgrade during your mission to install transmission, then it would be MUCH faster to start from scratch, and not upgrade packages!

Good luck!

3

Hi

I did do a apt-get upgrade… was this a mistake?

4

for 2.xx it will screw up your volumio.

5

oh dear… ill reflash in that case

6

you can update but never upgrade…

7

Welcome to the Hotel Volumio…
You can update any time you like,
But you can never upgrade!’