I don't know much about Ubuntu, but I have some ideas of what might be wrong. Did you put this file in the same one which your wallet is in by default, and do you have file extensions enabled for known file types?
P.S. How long have you tried to connect before turning off the client, on a bad day it can still take ~20 min.
Yes it's in the same folder as that which the wallet is in by default. I don't know if Linux has an "enable file extensions for know file types" option.
It has been on for 10min now, I'll leave it for a while longer. Before, I was canceling it after ~5min. But it doesn't seem to do doing anything though, still 0 blocks, 0 connections, but all my transactions are showing.
stop the client
in .bitcoin
create bitcoin.conf
and put
addnode=192.0.2.6
addnode=67.215.65.132
addnode=99.27.237.13
addnode=94.209.188.239
addnode=74.82.216.10
addnode=66.221.254.71
addnode=75.158.131.108
addnode=200.35.150.50
addnode=46.4.167.32
addnode=62.75.216.13
addnode=93.159.111.85
addnode=62.75.218.18
addnode=83.169.11.67
addnode=80.237.211.92
addnode=85.10.193.82
addnode=46.4.48.203
addnode=46.4.88.20
that in
restart the client
That is exactly what I did. Same thing with the sample bitcoin.conf suggested by Maged...
...but still nothing