On Dec 7, 2006, at 11:54 , William Stein wrote:
> > Hi, > > I think the errors below mean you have networking completely > off on your computer, e.g., you don't even have a loopback device > on, so your machine is misconfigured. Probably other things besides > SAGE won't work. What do you get when you do > > /sbin/ifconfig > > /sbin/route > > ping localhost > > Maybe you need to do something like /etc/init.d/networking start > or something like that, or ? Another, possibly simpler, explanation is that this error >> (-2, 'Name or service not known') could be due to the file "/etc/services" being missing. I'm not sure which code emits the error message, but it should be pretty easy to track down...and verifying the presence of the file is easy :-} Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
