Steve Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:46:08 -0800, Matthew Allen wrote: > >>I have been trying to get dssi up and running on my machine this >>afternoon and I have run into a snag. It appears to compile correctly >>(both CVS and tarballs). But whenever I try to do the tests I get a >>segfault. I know its some user error, but its difficult to track down >>with only a segfault. >> >>Is there a common mistake I am doing? > > > Segfaults are (almost) never due to user errors. Unless you did > something truely wierd or forced an install its the developers fault :) > > It could be that your system networking config is a bit odd. Verisons of > liblo < 0.16, which the DSSI test code depends on, segfaulted under some > condititons. > > Unfortunatly I cant remember the fix, but hopefully someone here can... IIRC, make sure that the name reported by hostname(1) is in the /etc/hosts file. Otherwise liblo would segfault when trying to launch a new server. Cheers, Walco
