Re: esd says "unable to bind port 16001"

[Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@vsnl.com>]

Louis F. Melahn posts:

> I installed Helix Gnome on my Potato Debian system.
>

Please check and see whether U have the lo device up and
running in ur system by doing an 'ifconfig'.  

> whenever I invoke it, I get the following message, Unable to
> bind port 16001 and then it aborts. What does that mean, 
> and how do I fix it?
>

Helix Gnome uses the loop-back device and a similar problem
was fixed in my friend's Debian system by getting the lo
device section in /etc/network/interfaces uncommented/added
'iface lo inet loopback'. Restart networking & inetd services.

YMMV and I maybe totally wrong here......



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