mldonkey-server doesn't connect to any servers

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: mldonkey-server

I have just installed mldonkey-server 2.9.0-1 in gutsy. When I try to run a search (via the web interface), I get a message saying "Query 1 sent to 0 server(s)", but no results. Obviously the correct behaviour would be to query a number of servers and return some results.

According to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=612374 this has something to do with the binaries from the mldonkey project being broken, although that doesn't make sense to me if ubuntu compiles its own binaries.

[spiralvoice (spiralvoice)]

Is your serverlist empty?
If yes, update MLDonkey to at least 2.9.2, the problem is addressed there:

6237: EDK: Load server.met files from archives even if unpack fails
- http://www.gruk.org/server.met.gz is not a gz archive at the moment...

Or follow these instructions:
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ServerList#Best_practices_for_serverlist_management

Btw: MLDonkey@Debian testing is at 2.9.4 already, while Ubuntu is still at 2.9.2.
MLDonkey should be compiled with Ocaml >= 3.10.1 to avoid crashes on 64bit archs.

[David Santamaría Rogado (howl)]

Of course when mldonkey says send to 0 servers is because you don't have no one, load a server.met from the internet with mldonkey or upgrade to a version that have the gruk's server.met by default. Another user mistake.