OK, the same errors keep on being posted over and over so I think it is time for a thread concerning common errors. I will close this thread for the sake of readabilty, but all moderators are welcome to add other "common errors" to it. If you (being one of our users) think something important is missing here you are welcome to send me your suggestions via PM.
- "wx messed up by many distros"If you are running a rpm-based distro and amule crashes on you first try this:
Take a look at the output of 'rpm -qa | grep wx'. If it says something like 'wxGTK-2.4.2-4.1.fc2.fr' (the interesting part here is the 'fc2' for 'Fedora Core 2') or any other hint about your distro please uninstall your wx rpms and install the ones from here:
http://www.amule.org/files/files.php?cat=12 The wx-rpms provided on this page should work with every rpm-based distro.
Most distros have just fucked up on their wx packages and amule doesn't work with them. This includes (but is not limited to) Suse, Fedora and Mandrake.
- "amuleweb keeps on segfaulting on me" or "invalid EC packet received"If the versions of amule and amuleweb differ amuleweb
will segfault on you. This is more a common problem with cvs-users. To find out if your amule and amuleweb are from the same date try the following:
'which amule'
'which amuleweb'
"which" will give you the location of amule and amuleweb. Now do a
'ls -lh /location/of/amule/as/given/by/which'
'ls -lh /location/of/amuleweb/as/given/by/which'
The output should be something like this:
dude@server dude $ ls -lh /usr/local/bin/amule
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23M Feb 28 01:00 /usr/local/bin/amule
dude@server dude $ ls -lh /usr/local/bin/amuleweb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.3M Feb 28 01:00 /usr/local/bin/amulewebIf the date and time of these two fields don't match it is likely that they were installed on different occasions.
- "amuleweb shows strange output"Until cvs 2005.02.27 you had to copy the file aMule.tmpl and the directory webserver to your ~/.aMule/ directory. While the content of the directory webserver doesn't change that often the template aMule.tmpl does change. If you install a newer version of amuleweb and fail to copy the template this will result in strange output showing "%i" or things like that instead of filenames etc.
Please note that this tripstone has been removed since the cvs tarball from 2005/02/27 and will not be present in 2.0.0final either.
- "amuled crashes"amuled is still a little experimental and not to be declared "stable". So if you want to use it you are warned. Three important notices concerning amuled:
- There was a huge bug concerning download speed with amuled in 2.0.0rc8 which was fixed on cvs. So if you want to use amuled please use 2.0.2 or later or compile a recent cvs tarball.
- There is a known bug if you set amuled to use more than 1024 connections. This is a problem with wx as wxBase can't handle more than 1024 connections at once so please set your max-connections to 1023 or lower.
- "I can't copy links from aMule"Linux has two clipboards. If you click on "copy ed2k link to clipboard" in aMule you have to click the middle mouse button (or, if your mouse only has two buttons, the right and the left one at the same time) to paste a link from the clipboard.
- "amuleweb doesn't show a progress bar but only strange signs"Most likely you are missing gd or gd-devel. Take a closer look here:
http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=6217- "aMule crashes when closing tabs on search page"This is a bug in wxGTK version 2.6.3 and lower, which only occurs when using GTK 2.10 (FC6, Ubuntu 6.06, other distros). The solution is to upgrade wxGTK to version 2.8.0 (most recent as of the time of this post is 2.8.3). If there is no such versin for your distro, then download the source code (
www.wxwidgets.org) and compile it and install it. Then compile aMule so it uses the new wxGTK.
