mldonkey not starting /var/run right troubles

Hi, I changed the blog system running in debuntu. The url changed, it is now:
http://debuntu.org/2006/04/03/13-how-to-dapper-and-starting-mldonkey-mlnet-file-s-not-owned-by-user-113-or-group-1001-var-run-reown-it-first

I can confirm that link which 'chantra' gives, solving the bug.

I can confirm this bug and the fact that chantras workaround solves it. For your convenience I created a small patch.

Added patch. Thanks

I'm trying to update to mldonkey-2.7.1-2ubuntu2 and I got
error message from synaptic:

E: mldonkey-server: podproces pre-removal script zwrócił kod błędu 1

I got polish ver so translation is "mldonkey server :subproces pre-removal script returns error code 1"

So, I use 'sudo apt-get remove --purge mldonkey-server'

It finished o.k.

and again 'sudo apt-get update' - to be sure I got latest ver

and then 'sudo apt-get install mldonkey-server'

It ask me to start mldonkey as service, password for admin and then I got:

Unpacking mldonkey-server (z .../mldonkey-server_2.7.1-2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Configuring mldonkey-server (2.7.1-2ubuntu2) ...
Fatal error: exception Failure("lexing: empty token")
dpkg: error processing mldonkey-server (--configure):
 podproces post-installation script return error code 2
There was errors during processing:
 mldonkey-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This installation steps are my translation from polish, but I hope they good.

I browse the package version mldonkey-2.7.1-2ubuntu2 and I saw that 'changelog.DEBIAN.gz' inform that patch for ovnership was added, so I wnt to /etc/init.d inside package file and there is no change ...

The backage can't be installed using package tools

I could install the ackage, but can't remove it :s
here is the dump:

sudo apt-get remove mldonkey-server --purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mldonkey-server*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 8151kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 184635 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mldonkey-server ...
Stopping MLDonkey: mlnetNo process in pidfile `/var/run/mlnet.pid' found running; none killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mldonkey-server, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing mldonkey-server (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting MLDonkey: mlnet (unset) is not a valid directory.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mldonkey-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mldonkey-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

to work around this error, you can modify
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mldonkey-server.prerm
and enter exit 0 before the if condition.

As my server wasn't running when I wanted to remove the package, it didn't matter to stop mldonkey.

Fixed package uploaded to edgy.

mldonkey (2.7.7-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Retry to stop the deamon with the --oknodo option of start-stop-daemon if
    stopping fails in order to work around an old bug in the init.d script,
    closes: #378934.
  * chown /var/run/mldonkey only if both variables MLDONKEY_USER and
    MLDONKEY_GROUP are set, closes: #378603.
  * Added arm_dynamic_loop_delay.dpatch on arm only to avoid a freeze of
    mldonkey, closes: #370107.

mldonkey (2.7.7-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Import patch from Ubuntu (thanks Reinhard Tartler) to handle systems where
    /var/run is cleaned on reboot, closes: #354701.
    - Introduce new config variable in /etc/default/mldonkey-server:
      MLDONKEY_USER. This variable is only used by the init script.
    - Mke the initscript create /var/run/mldonkey-server, setting correct
      owner and permissions.
  * Added 04_cfs.dpatch (thanks spiralvoice) to handle CFS filesystems which
    incorrectly report freespace, closes: #377865.
  * Added a build-dependency on libmagic-dev, closes: #378150.
  * Added a build-dependency on ocaml-best-compilers since mldonkey is a
    fairly big package to build.
  * We don't need to remove rpaths anymore.

mldonkey (2.7.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added 03_lock_config_files_space.dpatch in order to handle leftover
    config_files_space.tmp files, closes: #359237.
  * Removed obsolete configure options, closes: #375921. Also removed Soulseek
    and Opennap from the description.
  * Updated french debconf templates translation, closes: #377574.
  * Depend on ocaml-base-nox instead of ocaml-base on non native archs.

mldonkey (2.7.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * mldonkey_options now correctly handles \" in strings, closes: #354433.
  * Disabling DirectConnect plugin for now since it is unstable and does not
    support uploading, closes: #224836.
  * Use ucf in postrm only if present, closes: #333314.

mldonkey (2.7.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainter:
    Debian OCaml Maintainers <email address hidden>.
  * New upstream release, closes: #361173.
  * Build-depend on ocaml-nox (>= 3.09.2), closes: #369770.
  * init.d script of mldonkey-server called with stop now exits with 0 even
    when the server was not running, closes: #338875.
  * Correcly set $HOME in mldonkey_server, closes: #355913.
  * Updated debconf templates and removed mldonkey-server/mldonkey_umask,
    mldonkey-server/client_name and mldonkey-server/plugin.
  * Removed unused debconf templates: mldonkey-server/config_exist_no_options,
    mldonkey-server/config_exist_no_dir and
    mldonkey-server/shared_directories, closes: #332320.
  * Updated the Czech debconf templates translation, closes: #335353.
  * Added a .desktop file for mldonkey-gui.
  * Updated standards version to 3.7.2, no changes needed.
  * Updated the watch file.

mldonkey (2.7.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix the build on alpha by using a workaround when opt compilation
    has failed (Closes: #345793)

mldonkey (2.7.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Test the presence of mlnet and mlgui, to fail ASAP if the compilation o...