[slime-devel] Swank socket problem

[Stas Boukarev]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Cornelius Riemenschneider <c.r1 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to use swank together with the eclipse cusp plugin - so far so
> good. But when starting swank, I always get this error (from a manual
> session reproducing the problem)
> * (swank:create-server :port 12345)
>
> debugger invoked on a SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-ERROR in thread #<THREAD
> "initial thread" RUNNING {AA1B639}>:
>   Socket error in "bind": 99 (Cannot assign requested address)
>
> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
>
> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
>   0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
>
> (SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-ERROR "bind")
> 0]
>
> I've no idea what's causing this, can you help me? I'm on Linux, moblin
> (fedora related distro), 32bit.
> Cornelius

That usualy means you are trying to bind socket on the address not on
this machine.
I think slime determines your address by localhost or hostname, are
they right? And does loopback 127.0.0.1 exist?

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With Best Regards, Stas.