Re: [Mldonkey-users] resuming after connection loss

[axel]

if the mldonkey process is terminated or doesen't exit properly, it leaves 
*.tmp files, if you try restarting mldonkey without deleting them before it 
quits immeadiatly. you should see a message in the terminal from which you 
try to start mldonkey that tells you this. 
you didnt see this propably because you start mldonkey by clicking on it under 
kde or some other wm, in that case kde closes the terminal if the process 
quits and you wont be able to read the error message in the half second this 
takes. i think most other windowmangers behave the same way kde does in such 
a case.
the solution would be to go to the directory where mldonkey stores its config 
and do an "rm -f *.tmp" to get rid of these files and then restart mldonkey. 

you should whenever possible use the builtin kill command of mldonkey to shut 
it down, so mldonkey can do its cleanup stuff.

Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 17:29 schrieb Sebastian Luque:
> I'm not very experienced with mldonkey, but I've tried hard to find a way
> around this. Every time I leave mldonkey downloading something for the
> night, the next morning I see the connection has been lost, and starting
> the server again makes the window appear on screen for a millisecond and
> then it disappears without starting the server at all. The same happens
> whenever the system crashes for unrelated reasons and I try to restart the
> mldonkey server. The only way out of this I've found is to completely erase
> my ~/.mldonkey directory (loosing everything that has been downloaded so
> far) and subsequently start the server and answer "yes" when asked to
> create that directory again, and start over. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.