all torrents are failing to connect

[begunfx]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

The docker is created successfully (I believe) and running. I'm able to access the transmission web page at HTTP://ipaddress:9091. I am also able to run a curl command in the docker shell and get the VPN IP address. I'm using PIA as my provider and running this on a Synology DSM 7 box. I also tried different releases of this project (latest, dev). However, I'm not able to have any magnet torrents connect with servers successfully.

Note: I do have a reverse proxy setup using Synology's built-in tool (forwarding traffic to 443), but even if I access transmission locally I don't have any luck. I am also able to access transmission remotely via the reverse proxy address.

This is my docker run setup (sensitive stuff is redacted):
docker run --cap-add=NET_ADMIN -d \ --name=xxxxxx \ -e PUID=xxxx \ -e PGID=xxx \ -e TRANSMISSION_RPC_USERNAME=xxxxxxx \ -e TRANSMISSION_RPC_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx \ -e TRANSMISSION_RPC_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED=true \ -e TRANSMISSION_RPC_ENABLED=true \ -e CONFIG_MOD_CA_CERTS=0 \ -v /volume1/docker/transmission/data:/data \ -v /volume1/docker/transmission/config:/config \ -v /volume1/docker/transmission/config/openvpn-credentials.txt:/config/openvpn-credentials.txt \ -e OPENVPN_PROVIDER=PIA \ -e OPENVPN_CONFIG=us_california,us_las_vegas,us_seattle,us_west \ -e OPENVPN_USERNAME=**None** \ -e OPENVPN_PASSWORD=**None** \ -e LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.1.0/24 \ -e TZ=America/Los_Angeles \ --log-driver json-file \ --log-opt max-size=10m \ --restart always \ -p 9091:9091 \ haugene/transmission-openvpn:latest

My log file:
[2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] Transmission 3.00 (bb6b5a062e) started (session.c:769) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: 127.0.0.1 (rpc-server.c:956) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: ::1 (rpc-server.c:956) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] RPC Server Serving RPC and Web requests on 0.0.0.0:9091/transmission/ (rpc-server.c:1243) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] RPC Server Password required (rpc-server.c:1254) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] Port Forwarding Stopped (port-forwarding.c:196) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] DHT Generating new id (tr-dht.c:389) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] Using settings from "/config/transmission-home" (daemon.c:646) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] Saved "/config/transmission-home/settings.json" (variant.c:1221) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] transmission-daemon requiring authentication (daemon.c:674) [2023-03-06 15:42:53.970] Watching "/data/watch" for new .torrent files (daemon.c:698) [2023-03-06 15:42:58.970] Unable to create session lock file (22): Invalid argument (session-id.c:96) [2023-03-06 15:43:08.970] web will verify tracker certs using envvar CURL_CA_BUNDLE: none (web.c:455) [2023-03-06 15:43:08.970] web NB: this only works if you built against libcurl with openssl or gnutls, NOT nss (web.c:457) [2023-03-06 15:43:08.970] web NB: invalid certs will show up as 'Could not connect to tracker' like many other errors (web.c:458) [2023-03-06 15:43:50.969] DHT Attempting bootstrap from dht.transmissionbt.com (tr-dht.c:299) [2023-03-06 16:43:58.971] Unable to create session lock file (22): Invalid argument (session-id.c:96)

[begunfx]

Okay. So I happen to find another post that mentioned something that when they removed explicitly setting the PUID and PGID and env variables the downloads worked. I stripped out some of the additional options I had tested and those 2 and once I removed them, the downloads started working. I also confirmed that I was getting the VPN IP address within the docker container. So I guess I can consider this one solved! Not sure why I couldn't use the PUID and PGID values though. I wanted to have an admin user specifically for transmission so I can limit access to the rest of my server, so if anyone would consider looking into why this isn't working I would still like to be able to set these values to a different admin than the one the docker was created with (both are part of the admin group).

[pkishino]

So was it only user related or did you need to remove other env variables as well?

[begunfx]

I'm convinced it was the user IDs that was the issue. I was playing with removing and adding other variables and nothing worked. Only when I removed the user IDs did the torrents start to work. I happened to read this discussion: #2539 which prompted me to remove the IDs.

The only other env variables I removed were:
-e TRANSMISSION_RPC_ENABLED=true
-e CONFIG_MOD_CA_CERTS=0