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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: bobmarleyfan on December 25, 2009, 04:45:44 PM
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I had problems with 2.2.5 so I upgraded now. 2.2.5 did react extremely slowly since I had more than 1100 files in the DL queue.
I had this problem before and could solve it by deleting some files from the queue.
Now however 2.2.5 started but I only got the busy mouse icon. Nothing else happened.
After force-quitting and restarting a few times I deleted the amule.conf and re-started. No improvement.
Then I upgraded to 2.2.6.
At first start I was asked to enter my admin name and password. I refused.
Then 2.2.6 crashed. I deleted amule.conf again + at another try also preferences.dat and restarted each time.
The only thing that happens is that amule starts, shows "loading" and then crashes.
Any suggestions?
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Wait, aMule asked for your admin name and passwd? In which platform?
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Which platform? What type of package? Did you use a precompiled source package with a file manager or compiled from source? Is the application base for aMule accessible from your current user? or restrictive? where did it ask for your password?
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Platform is OS X 10.5.
I got the 2.2.6 binary from the official link (link on amule.org to the pre-compiled package in this forum).
When I downloaded and copied the files from the disk image to the applications folder I was logged in as admin.
When I started amule I was logged in as user without admin rights.
I was asked for admin name and password when starting 2.2.6 for the first time (I got the message "You are starting amule for the first time").
I had not deleted the amule files from the application support directory.
It was the standand system panel and it appeared 2 times (I refused, then it appeared again, again I refused, then it didn`t show up again).
Meanwhile I also copied back the original amule files (amule.conf etc.) which I had used with 2.2.5 (which did not porperly start in the end) and tried starting 2.2.6 again. Still the same: 2.2.6 crashes on startup.
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You copied the "disk image" (is this the "pre-compiled package" ?) to the applications folder. Don't you need to install it first? Or does this work in a different way on Macs?
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I was asked for admin name and password when starting 2.2.6 for the first time
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It was the standand system panel and it appeared 2 times
Isn't it possible that it (the OS) wanted to configure the firewall?
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You copied the "disk image" (is this the "pre-compiled package" ?) to the applications folder. Don't you need to install it first? Or does this work in a different way on Macs?
No, on Macs copying is enough to install an application. Their application bundles are a bit like a portable application for windows.
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To a point. You need to take the application out of the dmg and put it in the applications folder. You don't put the dmg there.
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To a point. You need to take the application out of the dmg and put it in the applications folder. You don't put the dmg there.
Of course. I had opened the DMG and copied the contained application to the applications folder.
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I was asked for admin name and password when starting 2.2.6 for the first time
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It was the standand system panel and it appeared 2 times
Isn't it possible that it (the OS) wanted to configure the firewall?
I assume this was the case but it happened when I started amule. Nothing else was launching at the time. When I refused twice amule crashed and crashes ever since at start up.
Supposedly I could have clicked yes but I don`t give out my admin-password to any request-panel before thinking about potential risks. I had manually set up the firewall for 2.2.5 so I don`t know any reason why it has to be automatically configured now.
Can I delete the last additions to the DL-queue by selecting those .part files with the biggest number as filename and moving them to some other folder (just in case I need them back) to get amule going again?
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Did you compile aMule with debug? If yes, can you post the bundle for me?
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Did you compile aMule with debug? If yes, can you post the bundle for me?
I downloaded the Mac-binary from this forum.
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This is what I downloaded:
http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=17284.0
I downloaded build 1 and copied all of the disk image`s contents to the applications folder.
Then I replaced the application with this build aMuleCore-2.2.6-x86-Leopard build 03.
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I have a second user account where I use amule (not simultaneously but alternatively). There amule 2.2.6 loaded and started without problems.
Meanwhile I set up a temporary second admin account and gave its login data to the request panel which appeared again when I started admule 2.2.6 in the user account where 2.2.6 always crashed.
So again when starting I was asked if amule is allowed to accept incoming connections (I forget this in my original post but it also happened the first time I tried if I remember correctly). I clicked yes and then was asked for the admin login (according to the panel info the application asking was Firewall).
I entered the login info of the temporary admin account and amule kept on loading for a few minutes. I decided it was stuck and force quit amule.
I just started amule once more. No request, loading, crash.
On the other account 2.2.6 also gave me the "This is the first time you`re starting amule..."-info (I had previously started 2.2.5 in that user account and also got downloads there) but it started without any requests or problems.
I suppose there is something wrong with the configuration of amule in the other account.
The question is which files I may need to delete to get it running again (without losing the downloads in progress).
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~/Library/Application Support/aMule/
should be there.
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~/Library/Application Support/aMule/
should be there.
I did not delete ~/Library/Application Support/aMule/ when replacing 2.2.5 with 2.2.6.
When it didn`t work I put amule.conf + preferences.dat into a backup folder and started. Still didn`t work.
I copied back the original amule.conf + preferences.dat files used by 2.2.5 to ~/Library/Application Support/aMule/
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Now I have an additional problem in the other user account:
I always get low IDs. I checked the router`s firewall and the OS` firewall: All port forwarding is set correctly and activated (also automatically loaded in the OS).
Still the port test found in the amule wiki is negative also for custom ports that I tried alternatively. I always set the ports to test in amule and restarted before I made the TCP test. Always negative.
I hate updates....
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There was no change that could result in such a problem.
Probably your firewall is configured for individual apps and now blocks the new version.
Why have a firewall if you have a router?
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There was no change that could result in such a problem.
Probably your firewall is configured for individual apps and now blocks the new version.
Why have a firewall if you have a router?
Indeed the firewall requires adding updated applications again. That solved the problem I had on the 2nd user account.
On the first account amule still loads and then crashes.
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Can I move the latest additions to the download-queue (.part, .part.met, .part.met.bak, .part.met.seeds) out of the temp folder to somewhere else to see if aMule loads again without risking earlier downloads to get damaged?
Are the files with the higher numer as filename always the more recent files or is there a different logic to this?
If I move out some files and continue using aMule (if it works), can I after some time (maybe after I deleted some files for the DL-queue) try to move back the downloads I had temporarily moved somewhere else?
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Can I move the latest additions to the download-queue (.part, .part.met, .part.met.bak, .part.met.seeds) out of the temp folder to somewhere else to see if aMule loads again without risking earlier downloads to get damaged?
Yes.
Are the files with the higher numer as filename always the more recent files or is there a different logic to this?
Logic is: new download gets the first free number. So, no.
If I move out some files and continue using aMule (if it works), can I after some time (maybe after I deleted some files for the DL-queue) try to move back the downloads I had temporarily moved somewhere else?
Yes. You have to exit aMule first of course. If the number has been taken meanwhile you can just rename .part and .part.met to a new number.
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I loaded some 200 files at a time and deleted 50% from the DL-queue.
Whenever I load more than about 170 to 200 files 2.2.6 behaves oddly and/or crashes shortly after connecting.
Examples for "odd" things:
I select 2 files an right-click. no context menu. busy mouse pointer. crash.
Sometimes everything seems to load but when I select delete from the context menu there is no request and the download is not deleted. At the same time I can`t open the Application`s menu.
Quitting via control-Q mostly is not possible. Sometimes it is.
Loading all 499 remaing downloads crashes 2.2.6 on start-up.
I tried 2.2.5 and it works. 2.2.6 does not.
If you like, I can send you a crash report from 2.2.6 via private message.
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I tried 2.2.5 and it works. 2.2.6 does not.
Who built the package? Is it built with optimize?
I don't think there was a change from 2.2.5 to 2.2.6 that could explain such a change in behavior, except for a bad build.
If aMule crashes at 500 downloads right away you are running out of file handles probably. Raise your limit.
aMule will behave poorly and slowly at that load however in any case.
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Whenever I load more than about 170 to 200 files 2.2.6 behaves oddly and/or crashes shortly after connecting.
... busy mouse pointer. crash.
... can`t open the Application`s menu.
Sounds a lot like the way i used to crash sometimes.
Can it not be the same problem?
BobMarleyFan's build is not a recent one, is it?
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Loading all 499 remaing downloads crashes 2.2.6 on start-up.
No. RRM, you had a memory exhaustion bug which showed after some time only. This is an immediate crash.
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I used the most recent build available:
http://www.amule.org/files/files.php?cat=44
links to here: http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=17284.0
Used these
>> aMule-2.2.6-x86-Leopard build 01 <<
aMule with aMuleGUI, aMuled, aLinkCreator, wxCas.
>> aMuleCore-2.2.6-x86-Leopard build 03 <<
This is aMule only, with no extra tools.
build 03 replaced build 01. aMuleGUI, aMuled, aLinkCreator, wxCas from build 01 (not included in build 03)
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Problem is, as a matter of fact Mac is an unsupported platform at the moment. "Unsupported" in so far that we have no active developer with a Mac who can look into such things. Not that we wouldn't like to support it better, but we can't I'm afraid. :(
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Maybe if I become active...
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... but then you are not a "lazy bastard" anymore...
and then you also have to change that description...
Its a bit much, no?
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That sounds like a LOT of work, yeah. But I do have 3 MacOSX in this house...