Erik Rasmussen wrote:
> The computer is a PentiumIII, with Mandrake Linux, and here's the gdb
> output (I can't yet figure why this app is wanting a hostname, and it's
> not immediately obvious from the man page why gethostbyname() is
> returning a null ptr).....
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x40648adf in gethostbyname (name=0x0) at ../nss/digits_dots.c:24
> 24 ../nss/digits_dots.c: No such file or directory.
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x40648adf in gethostbyname (name=0x0) at ../nss/digits_dots.c:24
> #1 0x40329b2f in _c_TcpInPort__newForReceivingFromPortNumber_ (
> self=0x404399e0, _cmd=0x4043a1e8, n=4237) at TcpPort.m:1189
> #2 0x40329d51 in
It's probably your network isn't set up correctly. You should check your
/etc/hosts file and see if it at least contains this line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
But, really, it should be handled better by GNUstep.
