Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#2877 closed Enhancement (fixed)

Don't let the daemon launch if settings.json is corrupt

Reported by: charles Owned by: charles
Priority: Normal Milestone: 1.90
Component: Daemon Version: 1.83
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

The daemon's behavior in 1.7x and 1.8x is to silently fall back to the default settings when hitting a corrupt settings.json file. This was well-intentioned but seems to cause more harm than good, generating quite a few user questions along the lines of "transmission isn't using my settings, no matter how many times I edit the file" etc.

Instead, transmission-daemon should say where in settings.json the parse error occurred, and then exit so that the problem can be resolved.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by charles

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

Fixed in trunk for 1.90 by r10135

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by charles

  • Resolution fixed deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

reopening for attribution

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by charles

  • Owner set to charles
  • Status changed from reopened to new

comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by charles

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed
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