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Title: amule wont start
Post by: patlabor on June 11, 2007, 08:25:44 PM

Hello everyone,

i am having a problem with my amule.
i am running it under eisfair 1.4.0.
because of some prblems with the amule gui i had it installed but not running for quite some time but now i figured out the problems on the windows side and wantet to start amule again
but it does not work

when i start the amule daemon i get this messages

Start aMule daemon...
Starting amuled ...
amuled: OnInit - starting timer
Initialising aMule
Checking if there is an instance already running...
No other instances are running.
amuled: forking to background - see you
failed to start amuled! Check your configuration!
20:21:41 installing file /tmp/fcr-Fh0jlk for user root
Modifications will be taken into account right now.


since i am running eisfair i dont really see the config file but just the eisfair config editor but there everything seems to be in order.
i have no idea where the actual config file is, or for what i need to look in there

any help would be appreciatet

Title: Re: amule wont start
Post by: skolnick on June 12, 2007, 05:42:44 AM

All the aMule config files are in ~/.aMule folder. There is amule.conf, and remote.conf. See the wiki for more info: http://wiki.amule.org

Regards.

Title: Re: amule wont start
Post by: patlabor on June 12, 2007, 04:45:20 PM

sadly i am not sure what ~ in a path means

but i dont have any .amule folder in /

Title: Re: amule wont start
Post by: skolnick on June 12, 2007, 06:59:27 PM

~ means your home folder. It's a classical UNIX convention AFAIK.

Regards.

Title: Re: amule wont start
Post by: patlabor on June 12, 2007, 08:34:25 PM

ok found it now
the files where under /amule/.aMule

but i am not that much smarter now.
i just get the error

amuled: forking to background - see you
failed to start amuled! Check your configuration!
20:21:41 installing file /tmp/fcr-Fh0jlk for user root
Modifications will be taken into account right now.

but i dont know for what i need to check the config

Title: Re: amule wont start
Post by: vdb on June 17, 2007, 03:48:56 PM

You are starting aMule for the first time with a daemon. That won't work since the daemon can't make a config file. So it fails because it can't read a config file.

Since you seem to have a config file in /amule/.aMule you should start the daemon from the directory where the config file is: cd /amule/.aMule ; amuled -f

Or something similar.