azureus dissapears

[petevg at gmail.com]

On Dec 4, 2007 7:20 AM, AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was unable to get good old bittorrent working on Gutsy,
> so I installed Azureus. But everytime I launch it, the windows
> comes up and disappears. I don't know how to track
> my torrent or to see if it is downloading...

Azerus will create an icon that looks like a blue frog in the panel in
the upper right if it is running.  You can double click the icon to
bring an Azerus window up.

>From your description, it sounds like azerus is straight-out crashing,
however.  I had a similar problem a few weeks ago.  Here's how I
solved it:

1)  I blew up my Azerus settings by renaming the .azerus directory in
my home directory.  To do so, either drop to a terminal and type:

    mv ~/.azerus ~/.azerus.not

Or open a nautilus (file browser) window, click View -> Show Hidden
Files, find the .azerus directory, and rename it.

Then I opened Azerus without opening a torrent (Applications ->
Internet -> Azerus), and disabled "fast resume" mode after going
through the Azerus prompts to setup my connection.  Here's how:

    Click Tools -> Options
    Click "Files" in the list on the left
    Uncheck the "Use Fast Resume Mode" option

I think that azerus was crashing because it had bad "fast resume" info
about one of the torrents I was running.  Initially, I just blew up my
.azerus directory to fix the problem, which removed the bad torrent
info.  But I kept having the problem.  Disabling fast resume seemed to
fix it, without hurting much of anything (the bittorrent protocol can
resume all by itself after being interrupted, though it does take a
little bit longer.)

If the above doesn't work, try opening a terminal, and launching
azerus by typing "azerus" and hitting enter.  This won't fix the
issue, but it will give you all sorts of juicy error messages that you
can post to the list so that we can help you better :-)


~PeteVG

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