Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Package activation error

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi Laurent,

thank you for reporting this. I don’t know what’s going on there.

Is it possible that the port used by the AlphaServer (51954) is already in use on your machine ? 

To help me debug, could you execute the following two commands from the Tcl shell (cmd-Y) once Alpha is running after this activation error:

alphaServer::port
alphaServer::isRunning


Here is for instance what I get on my machine:
Welcome to Alpha's AlphaTcl shell.
«» alphaServer::port
51954
«» alphaServer::isRunning
1
«» set alphaServer::serverAddress
127.0.0.1

Bernard


> Le 26 mai 2021 à 15:04, Laurent Lamalle <Lau...@un...> a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I systematically get an error message when starting Alpha, and this has been observed over quite a few latest versions:
> 
> Package activation error
> 
> The package ‘alphaServer’ will be deactivated if
> possible. See the log file ‘…/Library/Logs/AlphaTcl/ActivationError’.
> 
> The window presenting this message displays an « OK » button, but clicking the latter has no effect.
> The window remains open but does not prevent using Alpha.
> 
> The mentioned log file indicates:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Wed May 26 14:38:48 CEST 2021
> couldn't open socket: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
>     while executing
> "socket localhost $serverPort"
>     (procedure "::alphaServer::start" line 32)
>     invoked from within
> "::alphaServer::start"
>     ("uplevel" body line 3)
>     invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 {
>     # Activation script.
>     ::alphaServer::start
> }"
> 
> Currently, the earliest occurrence of this error snippet in my log file dates back August 2020, but it is possible I thrashed the file at that time to try understanding what happened, and the problem is likely more ancient.
> 
> I did not notice this problem when switching to early AlphaCocoa versions, as far as I remember, and have no idea what could have triggered this behaviour.
> 
> I am using macOS HighSierra 10.13.6.
> I just updated to the latest Alpha version.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Laurent Lamalle
> 
> 
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