Gtk-gnutella 0.90 'stable'? Yeah right.

[Wallex]

This is odd... ever since I installed the 'stable' release (the one I had prior to this one was the beta), gtk-gnutella tends to crash randomly with a 'segmentation fault' message. Well.. obviously I have no idea why it happens, but it never happened before with the beta version. 0.90 stable crashing more than 0.90 beta, just how stable is that?

[medrewsclues]

if ive said it once ive said it a thousand times, kazaa lite

[i_like_peanut_butter]

I've been running the .90 release since it came out. Leave it up for a few days at a time sometimes and never had a seg fault or other problem with it.

Are you having similar problems with any other apps, particularly GTK based apps?

Oh and kazaa schmazaa.

[medrewsclues]

my kazaa can beat your nutty ella any day

[Wallex]

Originally posted by i_like_peanut_butter
I've been running the .90 release since it came out. Leave it up for a few days at a time sometimes and never had a seg fault or other problem with it.

Are you having similar problems with any other apps, particularly GTK based apps?

Oh and kazaa schmazaa.

Honestly.. I've never had problems with 0.90 beta. It just started crashing on me after installing 0.90 stable.. or maybe it's a coincidence and something 'else' that I've done in the past days has affected gtk-gnutella indirectly. The problem is that now even 0.90 beta crashes, obviously it's 'something else', what else can it be.. I have no idea. And the reason why I don't go kazza-like is because I am trying to stay away from all Windows programs.. no Wine and hopefully I'll never have to install it. I want Linux version! When will people understand.. oh well, someday I'll get it. (if people know we can run programs using wine, isn't that a reason for them to not care develop a native Linux version?)

[Wallex]

Guess what? I decided to try something different.. make uninstalled gtk 0.9, and used red-carpet to install it instead. Now I have gtk-gnutella 0.18 stable! What!? That's quite a drop from 0.90. Hmm... whatever, I decided to run it to see if it would crash (because I was tired of restarting 0.9 every ten or so minutes). Hmm... it's been up for three hours now. I guess this means that the problem is somewhere in the Gtk 0.9 program itself.. maybe some of the configuration files? Oh how can I know... maybe Gtk0.9 has a lot more dependencies than 0.18 did, so I can't know for sure what caused my gtk-gnutella to crash.. no error messages logged anywhere.. just the typical 'segmentation fault'.. this is starting to sound like 'fatal exception error'.

[RudeCat7]

So are you MEDREWSCLUES knocking linux or what?

[medrewsclues]

Originally posted by RudeCat7
So are you MEDREWSCLUES knocking linux or what?

i am one of the most pro linux people round, ask anyone who knows me they think im nuts for it.
i dont feel that running kazaa under linux is wrong in any way because i dont feel that the intention of kazaa writers was to promote windows. and im pretty sure it puts a chill down bills spine every time a windows app runs on a linux box.

[Wallex]

Oh well.... what do you know. I reinstalled gtk-gnutella 0.9, and now I keep getting the host not found error (it shows up on the console):
** WARNING **: cannot resolve gnutella-again.hostscache.com:
gethostbyname(): Unknown host

Obviously.. the default hostname it tries to connect to at startup is down or something.. and since my hosts cache file is nonexistant I deleted the contents of my .gtk-gnutella directory) now I am stuck... anyone out there using gnutella can tell me any hosts I could connect to currently? I just need to connect to something to start filling up my hosts cache.

EDIT: Ow.. nevermind. it took a heck of a trip through searches here and there, I ended up trying like twenty hosts mentioned in the limewire forums... until I finally got connected to 1 host. Hmm.. it still fails to connect to anything else.. but the hosts file is already over 500. Heck.. it sure is difficult to get 'in' to the gnutella net at the beginning.

[carlywarly]

Have you tried qtella? Obviously uses KDE's qt widget set. Runs excellently for me and many others.

[Wallex]

If it's Qt based, I am staying the hell away from it... Qt is too slow for my tastes (even if it can look a hundred times better than the rest). I got gtk all theway... wonder why I started using KDE and not Gnome then? Oh yeah... that was SuSE's idea, not mine. And the problem was fixed once I started using a host files that was not '0' in size like that I started with.