[PD] help needed figuring out why pd on ubuntu hangs

[jake elliott]

hi,

my ifconfig  has this info:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

there's no "inet addr" just "inet6 addr" - maybe that's causing some problem.

my version # is "0.38.0+amidi-1" (ubuntu package).

also at the top of /etc/hosts it says:
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost	tudor


does that help?

thanks for your help
jake


On 7/21/05, B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:
> Maybe your loopback is not installed?
> 
> Does /etc/hosts say:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 
> anywhere?
> 
> does ifconfig print something like:
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:1017 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:1017 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:64420 (62.9 Kb)  TX bytes:64420 (62.9 Kb)
> 
> I had to do something funny on some distro at some point because the
> loopback was non-existant in the default installation, strange I know..
> 
> I'm not on my debian machine there should be something in /etc/ like
> "networks" or "network/interfaces" that says something like:
> 
> 
> loopback        127.0.0.0
> 
> clearly it will not work without loopback....
> 
> b.
> 
> Guenter Geiger wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Miller Puckette wrote:
> >
> >>Oboy... I just looked in s_inter.c and saw that, in linux, the IP address
> >>is hardwired to 127.0.0.1.  So -- just a guess -- maybe the C compiler
> >>hasn't defined __linux__ for some reason.  That would break a number of
> >>other things (in fact I'd be surprised Pd compiled at all in that case...)
> >
> >
> > I doubt that this is the reason as it seems to work when not connected to
> > the internet, right ?
> > And, if the host is not found pd would print something like:
> > "localhost not found (inet protocol not installed?)"
> >
> > So, my guess is that gethostbyname on ubuntu somehow fails to set
> > 127.0.0.1 and sets it to 0.0.0.0 as Ico observed...
> > would be really weird though.
> >
> > What version of pd are you using ?
> >
> > Strange ...
> >
> > Guenter
> >
> >
> >
> >>cheers
> >>Miller
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:32:59PM -0700, jake elliott wrote:
> >>
> >>>i'm having the same issue as ico, i think.  i cannot start pd if i am
> >>>connected to the internet. i'm using ubuntu.
> >>>
> >>>i don't see anything odd in my /etc/hosts file (not that i really
> >>>understand what to look for).  i put it up at http://osoe.net/hosts if
> >>>that can be any help.  ico, where is it in network-admin that you can
> >>>see how the ports are configured?
> >>>
> >>>i'm totally new to networkStuff.
> >>>
> >>>hope someone has some insight!
> >>>
> >>>thanks in advance,
> >>>jake
> >>>
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