[Solved] mldonkey is not starting

Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

Hi! It's been some days since mldonkey stopped to start. It simply fails. I tried looking for some logs, but I noticed it is not logging. I tried looking everywhere but I can't find any log message. /var/log/mldonkey.log should be the place mldonkey logs messages according to /etc/conf.d/mldonkey, but there is no recent message there. I tried looking everywhere, but it seems every log file contain old messages. So, I cannot understand the problem. Isn't this strange? Am I doing anything wrong?
Thanks for any hint.

ermannob · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 15 Location: italy

Same situation here.
And I know what I did before this problem came out: I updated mldonkey to 2.9.0-r2.
Looking at the Changelog of the ebuild, it seems that the init script was modified... I think the problem is there...

(I'm using ~x86 for mldonkey)

Reopening bug 189212?

-erm

Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

I don't know if the problem was the upgrade to -r2, but my version is that too. Anyway, I just solved the problem following the 'Clean install' procedure found on the mldonkey home page. No problems now it seems. I don't like this solution, but I think I can mark the thread solved anyway if you can solve the problem as well.

ermannob · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 15 Location: italy

Solved changing owner of mldonkey files...
Many files modified by mldonkey before 2.9.0-r2 were owned by root. With 2.9.0-r2 they weren't accessible anymore by mldonkey.
After setting those root's files to p2p's, mldonkey started working again.
(also mlnet.log was owned by root, that's why mldonkey wasn't able to log errors).

Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

Yes, you're right. I noticed that too. I tried this solution but it didn't work. Maybe I didn't find them all, that's why it didn't work for me.

marcelser · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 78

I solved the problem by removing the --background option in /etc/init.d/mldonkey where the start-stop-daemon line is. When you do this mldonkey will print out the messages to the console and you can see the error message.

It was the same problem for mee too. I had to change the ownership of the mldonkey files to "p2p". A lot of them were owned by "root". After my first attempt it still didn't start but when I removed the "--background" option in the start script I found out that I forgot to change the ownership of the files in the mldonkey/temp directory. So I changed them as well and voila mldonkey started. Then readded the --background option and now everything is back to normal.

UberLord · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:22 am Post subject:

Once baselayout-2 goes stable we'll be able to log those errors when we force daemons to the background which will make things like this easier to solve.
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Madjic · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 4

same problem... followed all the steps...whole p2p/mldonkey is owned by p2p:p2p

mitchd123 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 40

I was also struggling to get mldonkey to start. In the error log mlnet.log I was seeing the following message:

Exception: File "src/utils/lib/md4.ml", line 0, characters 85-6: Assertion failed while handling option:users

When I was ready to give up I simply deleted the file users.ini file. When restarting it imported users from the download.ini files or something like that, and it started perfectly.

Hope this helps someone else.