Re: [Mldonkey-users] GUI client doesnt see servers?!

[MLdonkey]

>  Hi, I'm playing with mldonkey 2.02, my mldonkey client is running happilly
>  talking to some people, downloading some files. But sometimes (apon
>  reconnect to my client from the GUI) my "Connected Servers" bit dissapears
>  in my GUI window, asif I'm not connected to any servers? But downloads are
>  happening quite ok (i see percentages going up and transfer rates changing
>  etc). Whilst the "Connected" window of that particular transfer shows
>  nothing aswell?!
>  
>  So, the problem is, it downloads quite ok, but I cant do any new queries
>  (since it's not connected to a server [the GUI shows] it doesnt get
>  results), and I cant see what the connected transfer's are actually doing
>  (while I get data in). So, I guess my question is:

You can use www.jigle.com or www.filedonkey.com to search for files
outside mldonkey, and just paste the ed2k:// link to mldonkey to
download the files you want.

>  - Is the mldonkey portion actually connected to any donkey/etc. servers?

No, it is not. mldonkey is able to download from sources without being
connected to servers (if it knows some valid sources).

>  - Why does buttons like "show all servers" have no affect when the GUI is
>    in this "state"? - Whilst receiving data just fine ?

Strange, are you sure there are servers in the list. Can you try to go
to the GUI console and ask 'vm' and 'vma' to see if the problem is
with the gui or if the core is simply not connected ?

>  This behaviour is not really reproducable, just sometimes my GUI decides not
>  to see any servers so I cant continue searches, etc. If I leave it a few
>  hours it seems to come right again, restarting mldonkey seems to do the
>  trick too sometimes.

Often, mldonkey does not connect to servers immediatly (because it is
busy computing md4s or because the link is too busy and the
connections fail). It is normally not a problem, since the connections
should work after a short while. Another possible reason is that you
have a limited number of connections possible (some users like to set
the option max_opened_connections for that), and at startup, they are
all already used to connect to sources.

- MLDonkey