I updated my mldonkey yesterday to 2.9.0-r2. Today I noticed that it did not start up again.
In the Gentoo forums, I found the solution: The mldonkey files have to be owned by the user “p2p” – ALL of them.
So, in the /home/p2p/mldonkey dir, a simple “sudo chown -R p2p:users *” did the job.
Horray!
