Turns out both can work on debian jessie, so can't fix this unless there is a patch somewhere.

Cheers,

chillfan

On Sunday, February 7, 2016 3:41 PM, dev1fanboy <devuanfanboy@???> wrote:
> Thanks for confirming, after your last reply I tried from source and after
> tinking with the flags to match the ones by debian, I found the same thing
> you just mentioned. It's when transmission-daemon is started that
> transmission-gtk (or qt) won't work and the reason seems to be
> transmission-daemon (the part that uses systemd) being started at the same
> time. Transmission remote features are working using a remote client.
>
> Mostly I've been trying to help with this:
> https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-maintainers/issues/17
>
> Will test it on debian with systemd, if it's the same I'll upload and fix
> transmission (transmission-daemon).
>
> Cheers,
>
> chillfan
>
> On Sunday, February 7, 2016 3:20 PM, shraptor <shraptor@???> wrote:
>> On 2016-02-07 03:26, shraptor wrote:
>>> On 2016-02-06 17:18, dev1fanboy wrote:
>>>> So I am trying to build transmission-daemon without systemd, was just
>>>> testing this locally and run into an issue. It can be built without
>>>> systemd but transmission-gtk will no longer start downloading
>>>> torrents.
>>>>
>>>> I think it is down to this error which appears when running
>>>> transmission-gtk in a terminal:
>>>>
>>>> ** (transmission-gtk:32682): WARNING **: Error retrieving
>>>> accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
>>>> The name
>>>> org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
>>
>> I downloaded source and built transmission without systemd.
>>
>> Started transmission-daemon and successfully downloaded a torrent
>> using transmission-remote.
>>
>> If I then start transmission-gtk I get the same behavior as you.
>> The torrent doesn't start. I get no dbus error in terminal though.
>>
>> If I kill transmission-daemon and restart transmission-gtk the torrent
>> starts.
>>
>> I am not sure what setup you're after but transmission-gtk works without
>> transmission-daemon!?
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