While testing translations (expect a new PR) I remarked that if the user changes aMule's language from the Preferences > General menu, closes the program and launches it again (I did this a few times switching between English, French & Turkish), the aMule log was displaying warnings that some keys were found several times in amule.conf. Please see the excerpt of the log below. Reproducibility: always. That's with Fedora 44 KDE X11.
$ amule --version
aMule GIT compiled with wxGTK3 v3.2.9 and Boost 1.90 (Snapshot: rev. 3.0.0-pre-96-g2026f0433a) (OS: Linux)
$ uname -a
Linux ares 7.0.10-201.fc44.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed May 27 13:57:41 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
2026-06-05 10:50:28: Initialising aMule GIT compiled with wxGTK3 v3.2.9 and Boost 1.90 (Snapshot: rev. 3.0.0-pre-96-g2026f0433a)
2026-06-05 10:50:28: Checking if there is an instance already running...
2026-06-05 10:50:28: No other instances are running.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 131: key 'MaxDownload' was first found at line 11.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'MaxDownload' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 132: key 'MaxConnections' was first found at line 21.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'MaxConnections' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 133: key 'ManualHighPrio' was first found at line 35.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'ManualHighPrio' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 134: key 'ICH' was first found at line 36.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'ICH' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 135: key 'AICHTrust' was first found at line 37.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'AICHTrust' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 136: key 'IncomingDir' was first found at line 48.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'IncomingDir' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 137: key 'statsInterval' was first found at line 56.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'statsInterval' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 138: key 'MaxConnectionsPerFiveSeconds' was first found at line 57.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'MaxConnectionsPerFiveSeconds' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 139: key 'ShowInfoOnCatTabs' was first found at line 61.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'ShowInfoOnCatTabs' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 140: key 'GeoIPEnabled' was first found at line 64.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'GeoIPEnabled' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 141: key 'IPFilterURL' was first found at line 68.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'IPFilterURL' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 142: key 'IPFilterAutoLoad' was first found at line 69.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'IPFilterAutoLoad' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 143: key 'IPFilterSystem' was first found at line 73.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'IPFilterSystem' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 144: key 'Language' was first found at line 90.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'Language' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 145: key 'AllcatType' was first found at line 94.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'AllcatType' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 146: key 'KadNodesUrl' was first found at line 98.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'KadNodesUrl' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 147: key 'StatsServerName' was first found at line 102.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'StatsServerName' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 148: key 'StatsServerURL' was first found at line 103.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'StatsServerURL' appears more than once in group '/eMule'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 171: key 'IpFilterClients' was first found at line 167.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'IpFilterClients' appears more than once in group '/ExternalConnect'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 172: key 'IpFilterServers' was first found at line 168.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'IpFilterServers' appears more than once in group '/ExternalConnect'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 187: key 'MAIN_Y_SIZE' was first found at line 183.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'MAIN_Y_SIZE' appears more than once in group '/Razor_Preferences'
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: file '/home/cardpuncher/.aMule/amule.conf', line 188: key 'Maximized' was first found at line 184.
2026-06-05 10:50:28: 10:50:28: Warning: entry 'Maximized' appears more than once in group '/Razor_Preferences'
While testing translations (expect a new PR) I remarked that if the user changes aMule's language from the Preferences > General menu, closes the program and launches it again (I did this a few times switching between English, French & Turkish), the aMule log was displaying warnings that some keys were found several times in amule.conf. Please see the excerpt of the log below. Reproducibility: always. That's with Fedora 44 KDE X11.
Some command outputs FYI: