[slime-devel] Swank socket problem

[Cornelius Riemenschneider]

Stas Boukarev schrieb:
> 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?
> 
Thanks for the hint, the loopback interface was not started.
Now it works :)
Cornelius