I believe he has fixed this since, but will comment anyway.

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:34:04PM +0000, Bob wrote:
> Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Are you sure you are talking about the same Freenet we are? Please check
> > http://freenetproject.org/
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:34:48PM -0500, Andy Doucette wrote:
> > > Dear Freenet Support Community,
> > > 
> > >     I have been a happy freenet user for several weeks now.  Today, my
> > > freenet broke.  While my freenet server was running in the background, I
> > > accidentally did something that produced a blue screen of death.  It had
> > > to do with moving a TV window from one monitor to the other, producing
> > > some sort of fault in my video card driver.  My computer restarted, and
> > > I have not been able to connect to the freenet network ever since.  What
> > > do you think could be wrong?  Thanks for your help.
> > > 
> > >              ~Andy
> 
> Assuming that this is in relation to freenet; I assume you're running it on
> windows? I'm not really familiar with how it works on that platform but a 
> couple
> of things come to mind :
> 
> - Lock files. On *nix a "lock.lck" file gets written to the main freenet
> directory on startup, to prevent more than one instance being run at a time. 
> In
> the event of a crash though it wouldn't get deleted and would prevent the node
> restarting. So see if you have something like that in c:\Program Files\Freenet
> and delete it if so.

True, but we don't lock by its existance; we lock by a file lock on it.
So if it dies the lock should go away even if the file doesn't.
> 
> - Inconsistent datastore versus index. I've never seen a node not cope with 
> this
> by fixing the index but perhaps it can happen. If the above doesn't help try
> renaming (location of your freenet store)\index to something else, hopefully
> this will rebuild the index if that's the problem.

I've seen reports of it happening, and stuff getting deleted.
> 
> - If neither of those help, look at (freenet directory)\freenet.log and
> hopefully it will tell you what the problem is. Unless you have turned logging
> off :) One possibility is that freenet is needing a huge amount of RAM at
> startup (so you need to increase the JavaMem size in Flaunch.ini), this is a
> known issue for some users on *nix ...
> 
> Bob
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