The answer to this was to ensure that the file /etc/hosts
is present and contains the line 127.0.0.1 localhost William G. Scott Contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/ On May 16, 2009, at 6:38 AM, Sebastiano Pasqualato wrote:
hi there, I'm using ccp4 installed via fink on my macbook pro, and suddenly the program complains that it cannot connect to the database server and won't let me run a combat job with the following error: Using CCP4 programs from /sw/share/xtal/ccp4-6.1.1/bin CCP4i failed to connect to database server after 1 attempt(s) Accessing the project database directly for this session ERROR opening socket connection in NotifyDatabase: Arguments: 159 hect UpdateStatus RUNNING -pid 916 SERVER_HOST: localhost SERVER_PORT: 4441 Error : "couldn't open socket: host is unreachable" ERROR opening socket connection in NotifyDatabase: Arguments: 159 hect UpdateStatus FINISHED SERVER_HOST: localhost SERVER_PORT: 4441 Error : "couldn't open socket: host is unreachable" Any clue? thanks a lot, ciao s