After tinkering with the software over the past couple of days, I think I have found your problem (this solved my problem):
Login -> Admin -> Settings
Look for the field where you specify "Python Path". It probably has a red dot. Change it from "/usr/bin/python" to "/usr/local/bin/python".
Patriot Support: perhaps you can either set that as the default for future software releases, or create a symbolic link from /usr/bin/python -> /usr/local/bin/python in future firmware/system updates.
After I changed that, torrentflux seems to be working great.
Now to figure out the super slow SMB transfer speed problem

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