Bug 50471 – ML Donkey 2.5.21 doesn't start as a service (daemon)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexey Parshin 2004-05-08 11:19:37 UTC]

ML Donkey starts fine when started as a normal application, under user 'p2p'.
If I attempt to start it as a daemon:

 /etc/init.d/mldonkey start

- it can't start:

screamer root # /etc/init.d/mldonkey start
 * Starting mldonkey...
 * Directory /home/p2p/.mldonkey not existing, trying to create...
 * ...ok!
 * MLDonkey could not be started! Check logfile: /var/log/mldonkey.log    [ ok ]screamer root #

[Comment 1 Alexey Parshin 2004-05-08 11:20:57 UTC]

Created attachment 31006 [details]
A log file

An error (log) file

[Comment 2 Sven Wegener 2004-05-08 12:03:28 UTC]

if you're using the latest baselayout-1.9.0 this might be related to bug 50434

[Comment 3 Alexey Parshin 2004-05-08 22:19:00 UTC]

It looks like you were right. I've created a simple script:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/p2p/.mldonkey
mlnet

and used it in /etc/init.d/mldonkey instead of mlnet. MLDonkey works fine after that. There is still another bug in mldonkey I'm going to post today.

[Comment 4 Jon Hood (RETIRED) 2004-05-10 10:09:20 UTC]

Do you still have problems when you upgrade to baselayout-1.9.1?

[Comment 5 Alexey Parshin 2004-05-11 15:13:08 UTC]

Nope. I'm fine now :)

[Comment 6 Jon Hood (RETIRED) 2004-05-11 16:23:43 UTC]

whew, then we can blame this one on the baselayout guys :-D.