Okay I got this working! The patch that chantra gave did not help here. Neither did the original suggestion in the bug description of commenting out one of the WRAPPER_OPTIONS= lines.
I think this fix will probably work for the following bugs, which are likely caused by the same error: 65743 70177 What I found was that when the /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server script runs and tries to start mlnet, it executes an install command with the invalid -f option. It seems that the author intended to create a blank $PIDFILE (/var/run/mlnet.pid) with explicit user, group, and permissions. But the author botched that. For one, the install command does not take a -f option. Instead it should have a source and destination file. So for another, $PIDFILE I would assume is the intended destination file but no source file is given. Looking further, I learned that the following line calls start-stop- daemon to actually start or kill the mlnet server process. Since start- stop-daemon is passed the --pidfile $PIDFILE argument, it will create the file if it does not exist and populate it with the process id for the mlnet process. If the /var/log/mlnet.pid file already exists, then it will error out and indicate that mldonkey-server (mlnet) is already running. SO... The answer is to simply comment out the install command line, and it starts to work fine. This error causes installing (or uninstalling) the mldonkey-server package with APT or Synaptic (or whatever) to fail as well, because the script is called to stop and/or start the mlnet daemon as part of the (un|re)installation. I don't know how to create patch files, even though it's probably easy. So instead I will just attach my modified /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server script. You can back up or rename your existing one and try mine out in it's place to see if it fixes you as well. PEACE! Tim LePes ** Attachment added: "corrected /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server script" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5107933/mldonkey-server -- Startup file doesn't work https://launchpad.net/bugs/35914 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
