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Friday February 13, 2009

OpenSolaris and gnuserv

I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my notebook (a VAIO TX) several weeks ago. I've been tweaking the environment, in preparation for the day when I move to OpenSolaris on my desktop system.

One of the issues that came up was that gnuserv would exit immediately after being started. This meant that every time I wanted an editor (e.g., for a Mercurial commit), I had to wait for a new XEmacs process to start.

I looked around for some sort of error message but couldn't find anything. I finally started XEmacs using truss -f. Looking at the truss output, I saw that gnuserv was looking in /etc/hosts and not finding an entry with the notebook's hostname ("loiosh").

I added "loiosh" to the localhost (127.0.0.1) line, and that fixed the problem.

(2009-02-13 13:49:37.0) Permalink Comments [4]

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