Could it be an issue of port opening? I do everything as super user, thus I
assumed that biomart would open the port by itself. Should I, and can I,
open the port beforehand?

To put things in context, all I did from the start was checkout the
repository, run ant, and then follow the quickstart example as presented in
the manual. I wouldn't be surprised if I skipped a basic local setting, not
worth mentioning in a user manual. I assume that there must be some IT
issue, rather than anything related to biomart itself. Do you have any
suggestion of key points I should check separately to the BioMart set up?
Based on my experience in installing software, issues generally arise from
very basic considerations, such as access right and network security.

I think the key point here is the "time out" error message. If anyone got
that before, I'd be grateful to know how they fixed it. I am pretty sure
that the server is starting (the button turns to "Stop Server", after the
error message pops up), but the communication is probably blocked at the
port level. I don't have experience in network security, I don't really
dare to change anything without advice.

Thanks for for your answer though!
Kevin

On 4 October 2012 14:55, Arek Kasprzyk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> I regularly install BioMart on various versions of Mac OS X (recently
> 10.7.5) and never encountered the type of problems that you are
> experiencing.
>
> a
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Kevin Rue <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am an early PhD students in bioninformatics, and wish to integrate gene
>> expression microarray data that my group has generated into the BioMart
>> context. (We've mapped the probes to the Entrez & EnsEMBL genes IDs)
>>
>> As per a previous email yesterday, I tried installing BioMart on the
>> current small server of the lab. The installation was successful, but I get
>> a timeout error every time  try to start the quick start example in the
>> manual. (which is missing some details about troubleshooting, to my taste).
>> The server runs on Debian 5.0.9, quite outdated since even the apt-get
>> command isn't able to read headers...
>>
>> I got an blank PC to try and set up a new server, and now I'm turning to
>> you, dear community, to advise me with a configuration proven to be
>> compatible, and run smoothly a BioMart instance.
>> Could anyone suggest such a configuration (OS)?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Kévin
>>
>> --
>> Kévin RUE-ALBRECHT
>> Computational Infection Biology PhD Programme
>> University College Dublin
>> Ireland
>> http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/k%C3%A9vin-rue/28/a45/149/en
>>
>>
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University College Dublin
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