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Hi Andy, thanks for the update! I’ve got the folowing error (i’m sorry if this question is asked about a million times, but I really want to know and I have not been able to find the solution yet), when I start the application I get the permission denied reply. Annoying! Can you please help me out here? Thanks you very much.

Andy, when I try to start it that way I get this:

/ffp/bin/sh: Ssh: not found

I copied and pasted the “sh /ffp/start/mlnet.sh start” command directly into my telnet window.

Andy, 2.9.6 had been running OK until yesterday. I had killed the core the night before because I needed the resources. Last night I rebooted my drive and restarted ML but it wasn’t connecting and several active torrents were missing. I added several torrents but none of them started and the torrents listed in my DL’s weren’t active. I updated to 2.9.7, restarted, and let it run all night but still nothing – the listed torrents aren’t active and the new torrents aren’t showing up.

Any ideas?

Rebooted.

Hi, Andy

Thank for super nice job you’ve done. Now I’m setting fresh installation on DNS323 and consider using this new version. I hope there is no bt_max_uploaders problems. I used 2.9.6 patched by you and everything was working. How this problem in 2.9.7 ?

Regards

Hi, Andy
Thanks for your compiling.
Would you release a build without gd support?
We’d like to have less resource coonsuming……

Hi, Andy

It seems that max_bt_uploaders works correct, but I have one very strange issue. Some newly added torrents dissapear after core restart. Torrent file itself sits in /home/torrents/downloads and I can even see part file in tem directory, but I can’t see torrent inthe list. If I try to add it again I get message that torrent allready exists. Have you seen this behaviour before? Maybe you have ideas whats wrong ?

Hi, Andy

I’ll check forums too. It seems some kind of bug. Please write me here or email when you have some spare time.

been having problem with the fun pack.. event though i place those two files there and reboot but it will not extract.. futhermore, telnetting to the dns323 seems to be a problem. i;m using putty to telnet to the localhost still unable to!! =(

Hi,

Thanks for the info everyone. I get the message when I Start mldonkey:

Exception: bind failed: Address already in use at port 6881

I am guessing because I have the DLink firmware that has the bittorrent client on it as well, how can I temporary disable the dlink torrent client?

Thanks.

i place the fun pack already but it does not auto extract after reboot. now i formated both the hd but its still in ntfs instead of ext2??
how ar?? hmmm

after i formated both the hd using standard individual option it finish off as ext2.. reboot and i cant view both the contents of the hd’s so i remove both hd and insert it back on the dns323 and it showed up as ntfs format!! =/

http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ntfsfq1.jpg

that is what i got after formating individual hds

Hi,

Thanks for this good tool.

I managed to get mldonkey running.

However, I use private torrent sites and I have issues with both of the two sites I use:

SITE 1: TorrentLeech, I paste the URL, and it said prsing wahtever, but then when I click on transfers, I do not see my new entry..

SITE 2: hd-bits[dot]ro, different problem, I paste URL, and I see the new torrent, but then when I go to status, it says:
Tracker is disabled, “–error: Invalid passkey! Re-download the .torrent from http://hd-bits.ro (try 1)”

Now, when I download exactly the same file to utorrent in windows, it works ok! I cannot figure out why mldonkey doesn’t work..

Any ideas?

Thanks.

http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ntfsfq1.jpg

opps sorry … this is a larger view :s

Some more info on torrentleech, in the log I Get:

2009/02/01 01:51:08 [DNS] could not resolve , check URL

But the same torrent works ok with utorrent.. I cannot see the torrent file it got because in case of torrent leech, the files doesn’t even get saved in the torrents dir.

I downloaded the torrent file myself and it looks like this:

http://tracker.torrentleech.org:2710/a/SOMELONGKEY/announce4

Could the problem be the port number in the URL for torrent leech?

Thanks.

hahaha… tks shad.. i was wondering too how come its on ntfs and no wonder the fun_pack couldnt extract after reboot..

aneway i got it cheap inclusive of 2 HD’s… =p

should i format it again on raid standard option or raid 0 (stripping)

Thanks Andy, you are awsome

Hi Andy

I’ve created topic here about torrent dissapearing problem: http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=29097#29097

Feel free to discuss here and maybe help with something. Thank you for Helping !

Regards,
alpha

I have noticed just one more issue. You can’t set option BT-max_uploaders_per_torrent higher than 3 (after restarting it set again to 3). This is also big problem… Have anyone has the same issue ?

I forgot to mention that I have max_upload_slots=60, BT-max_bt_uploaders=40 and I want to set BT-max_uploaders_per_torrent > 3, but with no success.

Regards,
alpha

Hi, Andy,

Thanks for your effort. I will wait for patch very much, because of this problem I have very low upload rate
I’ll be patient. By the way, have you saw new thread about torrent dissapearing. One guy is helping. Will see what we get in the end of all this. Good day to you !

Regards,
alpha

Hi Andy,

I’ve just tested it. Everything seems to be ok. Torrent is not dissapearing. Only after stopping core you can see active mldonkey process with “ps” command for 10-15 second. Sfter that it’s killed and after restarting torrent is ok. Thank you Andy !

P.S. bt_max_uploaders_per_torrent issue is still active. Please try to fix it as soon as you’ll have some spare time. I’ll test it gladly

Regards,
alpha

Hi Andy,

I wanted to know if you ever tried to compile a version for the netgear readynas? I tried it but the core only works for several minutes, then it crashes with an “Fatal error: out-of-bound access in array or string”. The result is I have to reboot my nas because the allocated ram will remain in nirvana.

regards PHil

Hi Andy,

Please let me know on functionality side, what will I miss if I use the no gd version? Does it still have a web UI? Sounds like no gd uses much less resources so I want to know before I install.

thanks

Shad,

i followed ur tutorial and got everything up and ready but when i download a torrent, it seems that the torrent does not start to download.. and also the port forwarding issues e.g. the client port and tracker port which value should i change instead of using the common port ?

I tried it myself. with
apt-get I took:

apt-get install telnet
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install g++
apt-get install libc6-dev
apt-get install ocaml-nox ocaml-native-compilers
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
apt-get install libbz2-dev
apt-get install libgd2-noxpm-dev
apt-get install libmagic-dev

complete how to on readynas.com forum.
and than i tried different solutions to compile.

1. I tried to compile it with super-poussin’s [user from readynas.com] changed charsetstub.c.
Result-> Fatal error: out-of-bound access in array or string
2. Then I tried it witout any modifiaction in the charsetstubs.c
Result-> Fatal error: out-of-bound access in array or string
3. Now I tried my luck with the ./configure –disable-donkeysui –disable-magic –build=sparc-linux

Andy,

for that must I uninstall ocaml?

Hi Andy,

I uninstaller old version using funpkg -r mldonkey……tgz and installed with -i option. No files deleted manually and I can say “bt_uploaders_per_torrent” option issue is not solved and mlnet.sh is solved. Please look at your code what could be wrong. Thanks for your efforts.

Regards,
alpha

Andy,
with your idea I get following message:
NAS:~/mldonkey-2.9.7-bat# ./configure –disable-donkey –disable-donkeysui –enable-batch
Arguments to configure: ‘–disable-donkey’ ‘–disable-donkeysui’ ‘–enable-batch’
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
checking build system type… ./config.guess: unable to guess system type

This script, last modified 2007-07-22, has failed to recognize
the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
download the most up to date version of the config scripts from

http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess
and
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub

If the version you run (./config.guess) is already up to date, please
send the following data and any information you think might be
pertinent to in order to provide the needed
information to handle your system.

config.guess timestamp = 2007-07-22

uname -m = padre
uname -r = 2.6.17.8ReadyNAS
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 Thu Dec 18 12:06:56 PST 2008

/usr/bin/uname -p =
/bin/uname -X =

hostinfo =
/bin/universe =
/usr/bin/arch -k =
/bin/arch =
/usr/bin/oslevel =
/usr/convex/getsysinfo =

UNAME_MACHINE = padre
UNAME_RELEASE = 2.6.17.8ReadyNAS
UNAME_SYSTEM = Linux
UNAME_VERSION = #1 Thu Dec 18 12:06:56 PST 2008
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

Do you have another idea…..? P l e a s e

Done the port forward already leave it overnight and still having low speed downloads.. and one more thing event thought i set mldonkey to auto start on boot it doesnt seems to be online. I had to manually start it via telnet..
hmmm…

Hi Andy,

I can manually change value in bittorrent.ini, but in automatically changes to 3 on load. Maybe I installed patch in wrong way ? The requirement “max_upload_slots > bt_max_bt_uploaders > bt_uploaders_per_torrent” is set ok. So wait for you response

Regards,
alpha

HI,

i try to download in webinfo my node.gzip,but i have this error

Exception Failure(“Unknown kind [nodes.gzip]“)

and do you have a link for contact.dat?

tk

Andy,

Still having problems here. It’s not connecting to any servers.

Thanks Andy. I think I’ve isolated the problem: something is blocking my DNS323 from connecting to servers. I’ve installed Transmission and it’s not able to connect to anything either.

Hi Andy,

Don’t forget about me and about max_uploaders_per_torrent issue. I’m still coming to your site 4 times a day and wait for new compilation

Regards,
alpha

Hi Andy,

I understand. I have work too and know what it is to have no time. I just sit and wait with hope that you someday will have time and recompile all the things Good luck.

Regards,
alpha

hi andy,
could you please uploaded the mldonkey on your site again? i cant seemed to download it.

thanks

Hi Andy,

So if I understand correctly there is no chance to fix issue ? There is also another problem. You can’t download file > 2GB via torrent or FileTP. It just don’t put file onto queue. Also if you can’t use sh /ffp/start/mlnet.sh restart because when you change “kill -9″ then it just can’t instantly stop and restart. But this is not a problem. We have two problems: max_uploaders_per_torrent and 2GB issue. So what do you suggest ?

Regards,
alpha

Hi Andy,

Thats ok with 2.9.7. We’ll wait for new releases. Thank you for you work and support and I know that you are not developer of MLDonkey We just wait. I think that issue with 2GB files is somehow related to DNS323, not to MLDonkey, but we will see.

Regards,
alpha

By the way…. I have tested if really BT-max_bt_uploaders_per_torrent works until reboot. No, it not work. Value is saved until reboot, but its not active. 3 uploaders for one torrent is the maximum and no matter what is temporary set in BT-max_bt_uploaders_per_torrent.
Just wanted you to know.

Regards,
alpha

Hi Andy,

I just thought you might be interested in my testings. So I have tested version 2.9.7 for several weeks and found so much issues that I downgraded to 2.9.6. Except those mentioned above there was issue with some trackers. Some of them do not calculate up/down ratio. It seems that you aren’t seeding. You upload 10-15 GB per day, but tracker do not register this. So it was very big issue. I have no problems after downgrade. I know, this info I should write to MLDonkey forums, but I thought you are interested too. I think we all wait for official release of 2.9.7 and hope it would be better.

Regards,
alpha

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your effort very much and for supporting MLDonkey ! I think releasing is worth a try. I think I could test it (it seems that I’m some kind of beta tester ). max uploader per torrent is not so much annoying issue. We can live with it. The most important is compatibility with most trackers. If you think that its not the time for release then you could compile one for me for testing. I use normal (BitTorrent, eDonkey, FileTP) without GD. So if you do, I’ll test. Also you can write me private and say your email for communications and not flooding this forum.

Regards,
alpha

hi Andy,
could you please confirm me if the fasttrack network is compiled in this version?.
I am trying to make fasttrack works, but it seems that its not there.
Regards,
Ivan.

I managed to get mldonkey-3.0.0-full-nogd operational despite being a complete noob along with lighttpd-1.4.21. However I wanted to get lighttpd operating on port 80. I managed that, but now mldonkey seems to be broken. Mlnet starts & you can see it when you do a ps in a telnet window, but it shuts itself down after a short while. It is not possible to telnet 127.0.0.1 4000. I get a connection refused message.

Any ideas? I went back to my original setup with lighttpt on port 8080, but that did not help with mldonkey.

hi shadowandy,
thanks for your help on this! greatly appreciated!
however, I have followed every installation step list and all looks good…
only thing is… i am not downloading anything!
Searched for a couple of files available in MLD, and these files are shown in the downloads column. only problem, nothing much happens.
that’s strange and I wonder if there’s anything I’m doing wrong?
thanks again!

Shadowandy,
How can I check on the download dir whether its valid? I see the files i am attempting to d/l in the ../mldonkey/temp folder. but nothing appears to be happening other than that.
Looked at the mlnet.log file. nothing interesting other than
”
2009/04/25 18:02:11 [cO] PID file /mnt/HD_a2/mldonkey/mlnet.pid exists.
2009/04/25 18:02:11 [cO] Checking whether PID 2175 is still used…

This means another MLDonkey process could still be working
in this directory. Please shut it down before starting
a new instance here. If you are sure no other process uses
this directory delete mlnet.pid and restart the core”
could this be the reason for it?
thanks again for your help!
cheers!

Shadowandy,

have you compiled the new 3.0.1 version ?

thank you for your time.

[...] Managed to find some time to compile the MLDonkey 3.0.1 a few days back. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7) [...]

Hi Andy, i’m french
i installing and run the mlDonkey with “/mnt/HD_a2 # sh /ffp/start/mlnet.sh start”, but after this, i want to enter “/mnt/HD_a2 # telnet 127.0.0.1 4000″ but the response of telnet is “telnet: cannot connect to remote host (127.0.0.1): Connection refused” could you save me please !!!

i have same problem as alphazing, in my netowrk dns-323 ip adress is 128.172.100.200, im trying to log by: telnet 128.172.100.200 4000 and i recive: “telnet: cannot connect to remote host (128.172.100.200): Connection refused”
here is my ps output:
PID USER COMMAND
1 root init
2 root [ksoftirqd/0]
3 root [events/0]
4 root [khelper]
5 root [kthread]
11 root [kblockd/0]
14 root [khubd]
49 root [pdflush]
50 root [pdflush]
52 root [aio/0]
189 root [scsi_eh_0]
51 root [kswapd0]
190 root [scsi_eh_1]
197 root [mtdblockd]
214 root [kcryptd/0]
215 root [kmirrord/0]
226 root [loop0]
1187 root xmldb -n config
1243 root [kjournald]
1339 root [kjournald]
1363 root chkbutton
1370 root /sys/custom/upnp/upnp 0 D-Link Corporation http://www.dlink.com
1386 root /web/webs
1416 root fancontrol 0
1422 root op_server 3 3 3
1439 root -sh
1459 root crond
1482 root pure-ftpd (SERVER)
1504 root atd
1526 root lpd Waiting
1531 root inotify_upnp
1559 root mserver
1560 root apkg
1671 root ./btdog ./bt -daemon-loop
1672 root ./bt -daemon-loop
1674 root ./bt -daemon-loop
1675 root ./bt -daemon-loop
1676 root ./bt -daemon-loop
1677 root ./bt -daemon-loop
1678 root ./bt -daemon-loop
1697 root inotifybt
1717 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1727 root /usr/sbin/samba/nmbd -D
1730 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1740 root inotify_upnp
1741 root inotify_upnp
1751 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1800 root /ffp/sbin/sshd
2031 root /ffp/sbin/telnetd -l /ffp/bin/sh
2188 root /ffp/bin/sh
2313 root sshd: root@pts/2
2319 root /ffp/bin/sh
2339 root -sh
2345 root telnet 128.172.100.200
2346 root /ffp/bin/sh
2411 root telnet 127.0.0.1
2412 root /ffp/bin/sh
2548 root ps
plz help me

[...] my luck at compiling this release. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7). If there are any issues with the package. Do inform [...]

Hi Shadowandy

I have the same problem as Alphazing and Jachoo. I followed the instructions as per the FAQ#8 and removed the Dlink BT software. Rebooted my DNS-323, and did the following. I still got connection refused.
Appreciate your help, any idea?

/ # sh /ffp/start/mlnet.sh start
Starting mlnet
/ # telnet 127.0.0.1 4000
telnet: cannot connect to remote host (127.0.0.1): Connection refused
/ # ps
PID USER COMMAND
1 root init
2 root [ksoftirqd/0]
3 root [events/0]
4 root [khelper]
5 root [kthread]
11 root [kblockd/0]
14 root [khubd]
49 root [pdflush]
50 root [pdflush]
52 root [aio/0]
51 root [kswapd0]
189 root [scsi_eh_0]
190 root [scsi_eh_1]
197 root [mtdblockd]
214 root [kcryptd/0]
215 root [kmirrord/0]
226 root [loop0]
1134 root atd
1360 root chkbutton
1385 root /web/webs
1389 root fancontrol
1427 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1431 root /usr/sbin/samba/nmbd -D
1435 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1437 root op_server 3 3 3
1444 root -sh
1467 root pure-ftpd (SERVER)
1496 root lpd Waiting
1528 root crond
1597 root /ffp/sbin/telnetd -l /ffp/bin/sh
1612 root /ffp/sbin/sshd
1622 root /ffp/bin/sh
1627 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1658 root ps

Hi Andy

“/ffp/bin/mlnet: can’t load library ‘libgd.so.2′”

That’s what’s in the mlnet.log

Meantime, I’m actually quite a noob at this and so I have been surfing around and trying various other things, including taking a shot at transmission. Right now, I’m thinking of just cleaning up everything and start again from fresh (ie. removing everything including the funplug). Mind if I seek your advice on how do I go about it?

Oh, I forgot to mention I have troubles with Transmission too and it’s not working as well.

The torrent client that came with the DNS-323 works but not for all torrents and can’t compare in all aspects.

Oh I didn’t. I missed that part. I downloaded them and installed them using the following commands:
funpkg -i libpng-1.2.29-1.tgz
funpkg -i gd-2.0.35-1.tgz
funpkg -i libjpeg-6b-1.tgz
(I hope I’m correct on the above)

Ran / # sh /ffp/start/mlnet.sh start again and did a ps. Really appreciate your help:

PID USER COMMAND
1 root init
2 root [ksoftirqd/0]
3 root [events/0]
4 root [khelper]
5 root [kthread]
11 root [kblockd/0]
14 root [khubd]
49 root [pdflush]
50 root [pdflush]
52 root [aio/0]
51 root [kswapd0]
189 root [scsi_eh_0]
190 root [scsi_eh_1]
197 root [mtdblockd]
214 root [kcryptd/0]
215 root [kmirrord/0]
226 root [loop0]
1134 root atd
1360 root chkbutton
1378 root ./btdog ./bt –daemon-loop
1379 root ./bt –daemon-loop
1381 root ./bt –daemon-loop
1382 root ./bt –daemon-loop
1383 root ./bt –daemon-loop
1384 root ./bt –daemon-loop
1388 root /web/webs
1391 root ./bt –daemon-loop
1394 root fancontrol
1434 root pure-ftpd (SERVER)
1487 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1491 root /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
1493 root /usr/sbin/samba/nmbd -D
1507 root op_server 3 3 3
1513 root -sh
1550 root crond
1603 root /ffp/sbin/telnetd -l /ffp/bin/sh
1622 root /ffp/sbin/sshd
1811 nobody /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daem
1812 nobody /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daem
1813 nobody /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daem
1814 nobody /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daem
4054 root /usr/bin/inotifybt
4568 root /ffp/bin/sh
6700 root /ffp/bin/sh
32727 nobody /usr/sbin/samba/smbd -D
543 root lpd Waiting
2738 root /ffp/bin/sh
10987 root /ffp/bin/sh
11394 root ps

Hi Andy

I got mlnet started. Thanks for your advice and help!

I’m having trouble getting telnet working again for some reason. I’ve got fun_plug and following the wiki recommendations, I disabled telnet when I was sure ssh was working. Is there a way to do this with ssh instead of telnet? I’m sorry, my knowledge on this stuff is really clunky.

Thanks!

Thanks alot! I have it working with almos no problem!! I just had to stop a previous bit torrent client

If you keep getting the “Connection refused” error during the telnet 127.0.0.1 step:

1) Confirm that you did not disable telnet
2) Turn-off any other BitTorrent client, and perform the mlnet start command again

Hope this helps

Hi I am trying to get this working on a DNS-320. When I try and start it, I get the following error:

/ffp/bin/mlnet: can’t load library ‘libz.so.1′

This seems to be different to the errors relating to the gd packages being missing, but I loaded them anyway just in case and is the same. That library is there:

/mnt/HD/HD_a2/mldonkey # find / -name libz.so.1
/lib/libz.so.1

I created a symbolic link to /mnt/HD/HD_a2, recognising the difference in path from the DNS-323.

Any suggestions?