Re: [Playerstage-users] problems trying to run player

[Matt P. J. <mat...@ya...>]

Hi Brian, thank you for your response. Where exactly
should "# hostname localhost" go?

Thanx,
MPj

--- Brian Gerkey <br...@ge...> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 26, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Matt P. Jedynak wrote:
> 
> 
> > [root@plasma1 worlds]# player
> > /usr/local/share/stage/worlds/simple.cfg
> >
> 
> > error   : getaddrinfo() failed: Name or service
> not
> > known
> > error   : create_and_bind_socket() failed;
> quitting
> > listening on ports: [root@plasma1 worlds]#
> 
> Your machine doesn't know its own address.  Player
> is getting the  
> hostname, then trying to convert it to an IP
> address.
> That conversion is failing.  That's really a
> mis-configuration in  
> your machine, but I've realized recently that it
> frequently happens  
> on laptops that get IP info via DHCP and then get
> disconnected from  
> the network.  For this reason, I've changed the way
> this startup  
> procedure happens in Player 2.0.
> 
> Anyway, you can fix your problem like this:
>    # hostname localhost
> Then start player like you did before.
> 
>      brian.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Gerkey
> br...@ge...
> http://gerkey.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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