Re: Getting Gnome to run (unable to bind port 16001)

[Thomas Hood <thood@mailexcite.com>]

Re: Getting Gnome to run (unable to bind port 16001)

The solution for me was to do this:
   ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

The "unable to bind port 16001" message is issued
by the Debian version of esd.  Strangely enough,
the RedHat version (whose executable is four times
larger!) worked.  So at first I just symlinked
'/usr/bin/esd' to the redhat version and left the
problem at that.  (I have RedHat 6.1 installed on
another partition.)

But I had one other problem.  I tried to set up 
named on my machine and nslookup couldn't connect
to it.  Spent a day on this.  Finally I saw something
in the Debian mailing list archive which suggested
doing the ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 and this fixed the
named access problem.  On a hunch I checked esd
and it was fixed too.

Thomas Hood
jdthoodREMOVETHIS@mail.com