Thanks for all the info guys, I think I understand a little more how things are working. My problem was a silly one- I had a remote connection open which I was trying to run some example code on. When I run it locally I dont need to start anything up- works perfectly.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 11 Mar 2009, at 07:39, Truls Becken wrote: > > Justin Lolofie wrote: >> >>> >>> I understand that gdnc must be running or it is started automatically. In >>> my >>> case, it fails to start up automatically. When I triy to start it up >>> myself, >>> I get this message: >>> >>> "failed to contact gdomap on myhostname(10.0.2.123) - Connection refused" >>> >> >> Did you start gdomap first? >> >> gdnc is per user and needs to start once per boot >> gpbs is per user and needs to start after X11, for instance from .xinitrc >> gdomap is a system service and should be started from the bootscripts >> >> Like you mentioned, the first two are started automatically for the >> user if not already running. >> > > 1. All three are start automatically when needed ... unless GNUstep is > improperly installed. > 2. gdnc does not require gdomap (except in the case where you are manually > running special copies of gdnc to support notifications between different > users/machines) > > So if gdnc is trying to use gdomap, either GNUstep is oddly > configured/installed, or a really, really old version is being used. > In either case it makes sense to completely remove the existing > installation, get an up to date copy, and configure/build/install in the > standard manner. > If using a packaged version of GNUstep, it's possible that the packager > misconfigured it (or deliberately configured it to use tcp/ip based > distributed notifications) ... in which case the thing to do is contact the > package provider and ask them what to do (perhaps they documented their > changes). > > There could also possibly be some security setting in your OS that >> either denies gdomap to listen to its port, or connections to be made >> from "mysystem". >> >> Also, I recommend adding "mysystem" to the 127.0.0.1 localhost line in >> /etc/hosts, and not have it on a line with the actual address (if that >> is the case now). >> > > Good advice for possible installation problems with gdomap, but this should > not effect gdnc as it normally uses unix domain sockets. > > gdnc does need to be able to write to the temporary directory (normally > /tmp), but a permission problem there would be very strange. > >
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