Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

Summary:

Unable to make Clutch work. Socket connection error.

Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

villanum 08 Jun 2008 00:03

Hello Guys,

I have been having problems with Clutch and I couldn't find a solution. I have the following packages installed:

libcurl - 7.18.2-1 - Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FI
libdb - 4.2.52-3 - Berkeley DB Libraries
libiconv - 1.11-2 - Converts between character encodings.
libstdc++ - 6.0.3-6 - Standard C++ library, needed for dynamically linked C++ programs
libxml2 - 2.6.32-1 - Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project.
libxslt - 1.1.24-1 - An XML Stylesheet processor based on libxml2
openssl - 0.9.7m-4 - Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries libcrypto and libssl, and is needed by many other applications and librari
pcre - 7.7-1 - Perl-compatible regular expression library
php - 5.2.6-1 - The php scripting language
php-fcgi - 5.2.6-1 - The php scripting language, built as an fcgi module
transmission - 1.21+r6060-1 -

I have modified the following to have 777 mod:
/root/.config/transmission
/root/.config/transmission-daemon
/usr/www/lib/custom

I don't get any error when I start transmission-daemon and I see 3 jobs running in ps -A command.
1402 ? 00:00:00 transmission-da
1403 ? 00:00:00 transmission-da
1404 ? 00:00:00 transmission-da

However, when I use the clutch webpage, I get the error message "Connection Failed".

I found this error in /var/log/lighttpd/error.log

2008-06-08 01:28:09: (mod_fastcgi.c.2175) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: socket_connect() [<a href='function.socket-connect'>function.socket-connect</a>]: unable to connect [111]: Connection refused in /opt/share/www/lighttpd/clutch/remote/lib/TransmissionController.class.php on line 103

Line 103 of TransmissionController.class.php shows:

$Return = socket_connect($this->Socket, $this->SocketURL);

I am unsure if the transmission-daemon is using /etc/init.d/transmission.sh.

It doesn't appear to be a permission issue, more like a socket connection case.

Appreciate the advice. Thanks.

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

alephsmith 08 Jun 2008 00:07

Cutch does not work with recent builds of transmission. You need to use an earlier version of transmission.

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

villanum 08 Jun 2008 05:50

Excuse my being a newbie… but can you advice which transmission version is needed?

Thanks.

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

villanum 08 Jun 2008 23:25

I uninstalled Transmission 1.21 and installed 1.20. After following the instructions in http://www.mybook-linux.co.nr/transmission.html, I am now able to see the Clutch website and enter a torrent file for download. I thought everything is working fine, but when it started to download, I received an error message "Connection Refused". I get this message in /var/log/lighttpd/error.log:

2008-06-09 09:21:42: (mod_fastcgi.c.2175) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: socket_connect() [<a href='function.socket-connect'>function.socket-connect</a>]: unable to connect [111]: Connection refused in /usr/www/lib/Clutch/remote/lib/TransmissionController.class.php on line 103

Can't seem to make this work… looking forward to a good advice.

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

piotrus 17 Jun 2008 11:42

Most likely it has to do with your socket file. Check if the path is correct. Use the script to start transmission. (check the script for the path to the socket file, transmission.socket, this path and filename should be in your socket.txt in /remote/data). The script handles permissions and does a chown on the socket file. This helped me to get transmission/clutch running.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (C) 2007 JRM
#
# Starts or stops the transmission daemons.
# Writes directory permissions and changes owner for
# the transmission.socket.

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME="Transmission"
DESC="torrent daemon"

case "$1" in
        start)
                echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
                transmission-daemon -s /tmp/transmission.socket
                echo "$NAME."
                sleep 2
                chmod -R 777 /tmp/transmission.socket
                chown -R www-data:www-data /tmp/transmission.socket
                sleep 2
                transmission-remote -f /shares/internal/PUBLIC/
                ;;
        stop)
                echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
                killall transmission-daemon
                echo "$NAME."
                ;;
        *)
                N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
                echo "Usage: $N {start|stop}" >&2
                exit 1
                ;;
esac
exit 0

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

villanum 04 Jul 2008 04:52

I've managed to resolve this by installing Transmission v1.03. Apparently, v1.20 and 1.21 breaks with Clutch v0.4.

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

bzhou 04 Jul 2008 05:36

I tested on openwrt-ixp4xx, transmission 1.22 (ipkg in the feed) is working fine with clutch 0.4.

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

beazone 13 Jul 2008 22:28

Installed Transmission (1.22) via optware, daemon is running ok. Installed clutch (0.4) as well. When I launch the transmission daemon and open the clutch web interface it reports "connection failed", however when I stop the daemon and launch clutch it reports "daemon error - the transmission daemon does not appear to be running".

What can the problem be? Thanks for your help!

Re: Clutch Error: "Connection Failed"

bzhou 13 Jul 2008 23:49

Try run the transmission daemon manually in foreground with debug on, then you might be able to see some error message.