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reepy

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Stuck on "There seems to be an instance of aMule already running" with no .aMule dir
« on: September 07, 2006, 02:38:55 PM »
Hi Everyone,

Long time user without (solvable) problems, but this one seems to be a bit different.

I had a strange crash (almost like my NFS server with /home on it crashed) with 90% of programs effected including amule. I was forced to do a hard reboot, since nothing was shutting down.

After rebooting I was greeted with no aMule:

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[reepy@laptop .aMule]$ amuled
amuled: OnInit - starting timer
Initialising aMule
Checking if there is an instance already running...
There seems to be an instance of aMule already running
If this is not the case, you may have to remove
the file ~/.aMule/muleLock, to allow aMule to run.
Attempting to raise current running instance.
reepy@laptop .aMule]$ ls -lha
total 5.5K
drwxr-xr-x  2 reepy users   80 Sep  7  2006 .
drwxrwx--- 34 reepy users 1.9K Sep  7  2006 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 reepy users   39 Sep  7  2006 ED2KLinks
reepy@laptop .aMule]$
This happens with `amule` and `amuled`, and only this user. It is not a problem with other users (which I tested). I moved .aMule, and it does the same thing! ED2KLinks contains "RAISE_DIALOG", and is normal AFAIK.

After a bit of a search, I only found one similar incidence, and it was in Greek: Greek LUG Mailing List - (Help) Power failure. It wasn't very helpful.

So what would be effecting it if there is no .aMule directory? Are there any other files that could be causing this?

If someone has a quick way of unlocking aMule, I would really appreciate it :)

Thanks!
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Re: Stuck on "There seems to be an instance of aMule already running" with no .aMule dir
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2006, 08:47:55 PM »
diskspace?

it sounds stupid but amule has this error when no space is left on the device ....
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Re: Stuck on "There seems to be an instance of aMule already running" with no .aMule dir
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2006, 10:54:41 AM »
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diskspace?

it sounds stupid but amule has this error when no space is left on the device ....

Hi Stefanero,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it definitely isn't disk space. I know it is an easy thing to miss, especially in compilation failures.

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/dev/hdg1             112G  100G   13G  90% /data2
Any other ideas? I think something with Gnome or GTK has been corrupted, as other windows (such as a creating a new email in Evolution).

I may just have to start with a new home dir.

Thanks
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Re: Stuck on "There seems to be an instance of aMule already running" with no .aMule dir
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2006, 06:45:26 AM »
Sounds like a disk error.  Your hard drive may be failing.
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