New install failing to start due chown operation not permitted

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I have been trying to get transmission to start but keep getting the following output:

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GID/UID
User uid:    1000
User gid:    1000
chown: changing ownership of '/downloads': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of '/downloads/complete': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of '/downloads/incomplete': Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of '/watch': Operation not permitted
s6-rc: warning: unable to start service init-transmission-config: command exited 1

The Docker Compose I am using is:

version: "2.1"
services:
  transmission:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/transmission:latest
    container_name: transmission
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/Denver
      - TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME=/flood-for-transmission/ #optional
      - USER=*****
      - PASS=*****
    volumes:
      - /docker/containers/transmission:/config
      - /mnt/torrents:/downloads
      - /mnt/torrents/watch:/watch
      - /mnt/tv:/tv
    ports:
      - 9091:9091
      - 51413:51413
      - 51413:51413/udp
    restart: unless-stopped

The /mnt directories have permissions of 777 and should be writable. I’m struggling to figure out how to get transmission to start up. I was running this container with out any issues until about a week ago.

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777 permissions are never the answer. Is /mnt/torrents a remote mount? if yes, you need to ensure permissions match on the remote side. if no, chown -R 1000:1000 /mnt/torrents