Cannot search, but Limewire connects
 

Hello.

I did search, but couldn't find anything regarding my problem, so forgive me if I missed anything.

Limewire connects fine, although the connection fluctuates from disconnected to poor, to excellent, and to turbocharged.

And no-matter what I search for, I get 0 results.
The "What's new" button returns nothing too.

I tried disabling/re-enabling OOB searching, but that made no difference.

I am behind a router, a D-Link one to be exact. I've tried enabling port 6346 (the default for limewire in it's settings), TCP, UDP, and both.
And I've also tried putting my computer in the DMZ temporarily for the sake of trying to get this to work.

The only thing I haven't tried yet, is bypassing the router completely, but that would mean killing 4 other pc's connections for the sake of troubleshooting which I can't do right now.

Is there something I'm missing or forgetting to do?

I've tried leaving limewire open for about an hour, and searching then, but it still doesn't seem to work.

And for the record, I have about 980 files shared... wether that makes any differece or not, I don't know.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

- Sarlok

This seems unlikely to be a network problem, because even if no port is open, you should still be able to search the network.

Try re-installing Limewire (both the latest stable and beta) and if that doesn't work let us know which version of java and what distro are you using.

Hello,

I just tried re-installing 4.0.7, and then tried the beta (4.1.1). Neither worked.

I'm using Gentoo (love sources 2.6.6-rc3******4), and Blackdown 1.4.1.

I forgot to mention, once or twice I recieved an error message saying Limewire had encountered an internal error (according to the log, approx. 3 seconds after being started).

But other times I had not, so I quickly dismissed that from being the cause. They stopped appearing after running it two or three times.
I got it again with the beta, so I saved it to disk as well as sent it. I can post the log if you want to look it over.

edit:
I also tried with one of my old kernels, 2.6.4 Vanilla-sources I believe it was. The exact version escapes me for the moment, but I know it's a vanilla.
Just in case somone got nervous at the thought of troubleshooting a love-sources kernel (as it seems one ofton does). :P
But the problem persists.

- Sarlok

well, Blackdown has never been a good friend of ours. Would you mind trying with the Sun JRE? If it shows an error log again please post it here.

Also try setting the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.1 (the safest value actually is 2.2.5, but that has been known to break Gentoo systems, at least a year ago it did)

Took some doing, but I got sun's to install. - version 1.4.1.05.
Limewires connection takes less time to establish now, but searching still turns up a blank.
No new errors either so far...

Done, but it didn't seem to help.

It sure does.

(any console command): error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
:D

Anything else you could suggest?


edit:
I Just noticed something - under tools/statistics, the number of current hosts fluctuates between 1 and 3, and the rest of the values are at 0.
That doesn't sound quite right to me. Unless that's normal.

edit again:
Another thing I just noticed... Under the Monitor tab, I enabled Incoming Searches.
They seem to pour in well enough. :)
It seems I was a supernode less than a minute or two after opening it - I got no message telling me I was a leaf when I enabled it. (Yay!)
So it seems switching to sun's jre has made some improvement... that or setting that environment variable to 2.4.1.

Holy moly. more editing. sorry. heh.
It seems searches do work now. I have to wait about 15 minutes before I can search for anything (else I get no results), but at least I can search now. :)

um, definitely not normal. Seems like the issue was that somehow Limewire connected to a small isolated island in the gnutella network. This is extremely rare (in fact the first time I've seen it happen).

something you could try to see if that was the case is to delete the $HOME/.limewire directory (after backing it up first of course) - that will make Limewire try a fresh start and connect to a different entry point in the network. The normal time for limewire to connect should be less than 10 seconds and you should be able to start searches after that with lots of results.

Once you get everything running smoothly unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL because it disables NPTL which makes Limewire consume significantly more cpu time.

Regarding Blackdown vs Sun - well its up to you (Blackdown isn't that much more free) but keep in mind that we do all development on the Sun jre and will most likely not address bugs that happen on different jres. (of course it is always fun to try - esp. exotic ones like Bea and IBM - but we give absolutely no guarantee it will work ;-))

Removing all instances of limewire and re-installing from scratch did the trick. :)
Hosts, and files are skyrocketing as we speak.

Thanks very much for the help.

And I've decided to stick with Sun's java from now on. I need it for Looking Glass anyway.

hi, im pretty new to linux, i have blackdown installed and i want to know how to replace blackdown with sun jre.

thanks a lot.

oh and i feel i must mention that i visited sun's site and it says that their jre is installed but i get an error message in the start up of limewire that says im using blackdown

thanks again for any help!

I'm not making any promises that I can help, but what linux distro are you using?

gentoo (gentoo sources 2.6.5)

i must mention that i checked my stats and for about 2 minutes i had a normal looking connection, but now i am back to the 0-4 current hosts, and 0 down the list.

Gentoo? Excellent.

one or two things before I tell you how to remove blackdown.
Because of portage's dependancy tree, you will more than likely get blackdown again later wether you want it or not. The gentoo devs are slightly biased towards blackdown, so they don't seem to include sun's java as an alternative.
However, it shouldn't matter once you get sun's java installed with no blackdown - Suns should be used by default.

open a console, then do the following:


su -
emerge -C blackdown-jre blackdown-jdk


This will REMOVE blackdown. If you want to make sure that's all it's going to remove, do emerge -Cp blackdown-jre blackdown-jdk first.

Once done, visit http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
and download the SDK.

Read the terms/conditions, accept or decline. If you accept, hit continue.
Then, scroll down a little if needed and download the Self extracting binary (Not the Rpm, and ensure it's for Linux).

Now, this part's tricky. The binary never actually works.
To try anyway, do this:


su -
chmod +x j2sdk-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin
./j2sdk-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin

Read the terms, choose yes or no.
If it doesn't work, you will see something such as:
tail: cannot open `+479' for reading: No such file or directory
after agreeing to the terms, and some stuff asking you to please not attempt to install this archive file (Which I am about to tell you how to do. :P)

Open the file with an editor.
Delete everything, until the last line you delete is:
exit 0

Then you should see ^?ELF^A^A^A^A. . .

Save the file as is, and then run it again.

Now, you should have a folder in the directory you ran it in: j2sdk1.4.2_05

from a console, do:
su -
mkdir /usr/java
mv j2sdk1.4.2_05 /usr/java


Now, theoretically, you should have sun's Java.

Good luck!