[Mldonkey-users] Re: resuming after connection loss

[Sebastian Luque]

Thank you. That's correct, I'm a kde user and have always been using mldonkey
through the buttons in the k menu. I've actually seen those temporary files
in the ~/.mldonkey/temp directory, although they don't have a .tmp extension;
they actually look like "FB66728EB7F23D273FE8C". I was hoping that mldonkey
would be able to pick up the downloads from where it left off before the
connection was lost, as it seems that the connection is invariably lost
during the night. I don't know how the connection is lost, because everything
else in the network works fine the next morning. Thanks once again.



axel wrote:

> 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.

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Best wishes,
Sebastian