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Mesh

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There is an instance of aMule already running
« on: August 31, 2008, 10:31:35 AM »
Hi, I was a very happy aMule user - until a week ago :D

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, which in alpha version, and about a week ago a mess happened with my gnome. I was finally able to fix it, but now amule doesn't work anymore.
It simply doesn't start. If I try to open it using terminal, here is what I get:

Initialising aMule
Checking if there is an instance already running...
There is an instance of aMule already running
Raising current running instance.

Since I can hardly live without aMule, and I don't want to use that stupid windows-only guy who starts by 'e', what can I do? T_T
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wuischke

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Re: There is an instance of aMule already running
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 11:00:42 AM »
Hi mesh,

there's probably a file called muleLock in the aMule folder which you have to delete now. Execute rm ~/.aMule/muleLock (in a terminal) and try to start aMule afterwards.
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Mesh

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Re: There is an instance of aMule already running
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 05:06:45 PM »
You were right!!

Yahoo,  aMule is back! ;)
Domo arigato :)
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