Debian Bug report logs - #507818
mldonkey-server: mlnet does not start, logs syntax error in downloads.ini

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maciej Czub <m.czub@newcomo.pl>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: mldonkey-server: mlnet does not start, logs syntax error in downloads.ini
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:12:38 +0100

Package: mldonkey-server
Version: 2.9.5-1.1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

After the installation mlnet is running.

After the:
# /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server stop
# /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server start
the server does not start anymore.

/var/log/mldonkey/mlnet.log is empty.

After remove '--background' from /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server, daemon logs:

Syntax error while parsing file downloads.ini at pos 29792:(Failure("float_of_string"))
it seems that downloads.ini is corrupt,
try to use a backup from /var/lib/mldonkey/old_config

Corresponding line in /var/lib/mldonkey/downloads.ini is:
buffer_writes_delay = 30.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mldonkey-server depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.24            Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                   1.14.20           Debian package management system
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1         GCC support library
ii  libgd2-xpm             2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3 GD Graphics Library version 2
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  mime-support           3.44-1            MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  ucf                    3.0010            Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

mldonkey-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mldonkey-server suggests:
pn  makejail                      <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  mldonkey-server/password: (password omitted)
  mldonkey-server/repassword: (password omitted)
  mldonkey-server/max_hard_download_rate: 0
* mldonkey-server/launch_at_startup: true
  mldonkey-server/run_as_user: mldonkey
  mldonkey-server/reown_file: false
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_group: mldonkey
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_niceness: 0
  mldonkey-server/false_password:
  mldonkey-server/fasttrack_problem:
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_dir: /var/lib/mldonkey
  mldonkey-server/mldonkey_move: false
  mldonkey-server/max_hard_upload_rate: 0

Message #12 received at 507818-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>
To: 507818-quiet@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Maciej Czub <m.czub@newcomo.pl>, Debian OCaml Maintainers
 <debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Cannot reproduce #507818
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:32:43 +0100

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fixed 507818 2.9.5-2
thanks

Hello Maciej,
I cannot reproduce this bug with 2.9.5-2, and reading debian/changelog, there
seems to be no changes which could be related to the issue.
Maintainers: I suggest to lower the bug severity, or at least tag it as
unreproducible.

My mlnet.log:

---8<---
2008/12/14 10:27:12 [cO] Starting MLDonkey 2.9.5 ... 
2008/12/14 10:27:12 [cO] Language IT, locale UTF-8, ulimit for open files 1024
2008/12/14 10:27:12 [cO] MLDonkey is working in .
2008/12/14 10:27:12 [Gettext] Loading language resource mlnet_strings.it_IT.UTF-
8
2008/12/14 10:27:12 [cO] loaded language resource file
2008/12/14 10:27:12 [DNS] Resolving [pingu] ...
2008/12/14 10:27:12 [DNS] Resolving [www.mldonkey.org] ...

Attention!
This core is running with glibc 2.8 but it was compiled with glibc 2.7.
This can lead to unexpected behaviour. Consider compiling the core yourself
or getting a binary compiled with glibc 2.7.

2008/12/14 10:27:12 [cO] Logging in ./mlnet.log
2008/12/14 10:27:14 [dMain] Core started
--->8---

(fresh installation: never used it before ;) )

Kindly,
David

P.S.: a possible bug would be that, if --background is used
in /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server, no log is written, while without we have log,
but the process hanging in the shell.

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Message #21 received at 507818@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maciej Czub <m.czub@newcomo.pl>
To: 507818@bugs.debian.org
Subject: complete log
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:04:33 +0100

Hello David,

By default mldonkey does not log anything.

Without '--background' flag my mlnet.log is:

---
2009/01/31 18:48:46 [cO] Starting MLDonkey 2.9.5 ...
2009/01/31 18:48:46 [cO] Language PL, locale UTF-8, ulimit for open 
files 1024
2009/01/31 18:48:46 [cO] MLDonkey is working in .
2009/01/31 18:48:46 [Gettext] Loading language resource 
mlnet_strings.pl_PL.UTF-8
2009/01/31 18:48:46 [cO] loaded language resource file
2009/01/31 18:48:46 [DNS] Resolving [carbon] ...
2009/01/31 18:48:46 [DNS] Resolving [www.mldonkey.org] ...
Syntax error while parsing file downloads.ini at pos 
5709:(Failure("float_of_string"))
it seems that downloads.ini is corrupt,
try to use a backup from /var/lib/mldonkey/old_config
---

I want to analyse this situation better but I don't know where to start. 
Are there some tests that I could execute?

--
Maciej

Message #26 received at 507818@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maciej Czub <m.czub@newcomo.pl>
To: 507818@bugs.debian.org
Subject: mlnet problem
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:02:30 +0100

On 2.9.5-2 version I have the same problem.

I have try to compile mlnet from source (2.9.7) - successfully.

First running of mlnet:

---
[cO] Starting MLDonkey 2.9.7 ...
[cO] Language PL, locale UTF-8, ulimit for open files 1024
[cO] MLDonkey is working in /root/.mldonkey
[cO] creating new MLDonkey base directory in /root/.mldonkey
[cO] loaded language resource file
[DNS] Resolving [carbon] ...
[DNS] Resolving [www.mldonkey.org] ...
[cO] Logging in /root/.mldonkey/mlnet.log
[dMain] Core started
---

Everything OK.

Second running of mlnet:

---
[cO] Starting MLDonkey 2.9.7 ...
[cO] Language PL, locale UTF-8, ulimit for open files 1024
[cO] MLDonkey is working in /root/.mldonkey
[Gettext] Loading language resource mlnet_strings.pl_PL.UTF-8
[cO] loaded language resource file
[DNS] Resolving [carbon] ...
[DNS] Resolving [www.mldonkey.org] ...
Syntax error while parsing file downloads.ini at pos 
29817:(Failure("float_of_string"))
it seems that downloads.ini is corrupt,
try to use a backup from /root/.mldonkey/old_config
---


What's wrong? Mlnet creates corrupted "downloads.ini"?

---
# perl -e '$aa+=length; if ($aa>29817){print;exit};' -n downloads.ini

buffer_writes_delay = 30.
---

So in my case the bug is very reproducible ;)


--
Maciej

Message #31 received at 507818@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maciej Czub <m.czub@newcomo.pl>
To: 507818@bugs.debian.org
Subject: solution
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:30:25 +0100

I have a solution:
"export LANG=C"
fixes the problem.

Ronny Chilinski - thank you.

I've put this line to /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server and now everything is 
working well.

--
Maciej Czub

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