[Mldonkey-users] Re: resuming after connection loss

[Sebastian Luque]

Well, that shows how bad my understanding of mldonkey has been! Thanks for
clarifying the mess I had in my head. I was under the impression that the
three entries for mldonkey in the k menu ("mldonkey server start", "mldonkey
server stop", and "mldonkey gui") were enough to use the program; to start
the server, stop it, and the gui for up/downloading files, respectively. So
when the gui showed the connection was lost (displayed as "Not connected"), I
thought that clicking on "mldonkey server stop" would "properly" shutdown the
system (e.g. clean up all those *.tmp files). But obviously that wasn't
working. How should I properly shutdown then? Should I forget about the k
menu entries and use a console? I'm really happy to hear that mldonkey will
pick up the work where it left off before the connection was lost! Thanks a
lot.

On a related note, I'm an Emacs user, and came across a lisp interface for
mldonkey (http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~dhansen/mldonkey/) which sounds
fantastic and would perhaps allow me to use mldonkey more properly. Any
comments from users?


axel wrote:

> The Files like "FB66728EB7F23D273FE8C" are the files in which mldonkey saves
> what it has downloaded already of that file, if you delete those files you
> loose all progess you made in downloading them.
> the files i was referring to are the temporary config files for example
> "downloads.ini.tmp" or "files.ini.tmp" these are used while mldonkey is
> running. on a proper shutdown through telnet/web/gui-interface mldonkey
> deletes them. on startup mldonkey checks if these files exisits, if they
> exist mldonkey knows that the process wasn't shut down properly and bails
> out.
> they should be in the "~/.mldonkey" directory, simply delete all the files
> with the *.tmp extension and your ready to start the core again.
> all of your downloads should then continue were the were before you lost the
> connection(at least all chunks that were complete are still complete).
> 
> if you use the mldonkey version that came with your distribution, it is very
> likely to be outdated and this may be the cause of your connection lost
> problem.
> you should download a more recent  binary of mldonkey from spiralvoices site
> http://ftp.berlios.de/pub/mldonkey/spiralvoice/ . the 2-5-16u core is the
> one that works best for me.
> 
> almost any unix program(including mldonkey) puts out error messages on the
> terminal it was started from, so if there is problem with a programm open a
> terminal and start the programm from there to see those error messages.
> 
> the best english site with forums for information about mldonkey is
> http://mldonkey.berlios.de/
> 
> axel

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Best wishes,
Sebastian