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oceanhead

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Registered: 2014-11-08

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[SOLVED]PureData connection issues

Hello,
I am having connection issues with pd-0.46.7-1. It installs just fine, but when I try and lauch the GUI, it starts hanging and it tells me

WARNING: connect to pd failed, retrying port localhost:5400.
watchdog: signaling pd...

The nogui mode starts up.
I tried the pd-extended package in the AUR, and had the same exact problem.

I don't know anything about setting up a loopback interface, and I can't find any option to get pd to use another port.
Can anybody help me out?

Last edited by oceanhead (2015-12-10 19:17:16)

DarkCerberus

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

Do you have all the files mentioned on the PureData downloads section here https://puredata.info/downloads - not all files maybe in the arch repository or the arch user repository and some may be missing - please check the website and its FAQ.....

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oceanhead

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

Do you have all the files mentioned on the PureData downloads section here https://puredata.info/downloads

I think that these files you're pointing me to are extensions that are not really needed to get pd working. My problem has more to do with pd not being able to conect to localhost.

please check the website and its FAQ.....

I have already, and I even found something similar to my problem: https://puredata.info/docs/faq/Pd_not_launching
The thing is, my /etc/hosts does have localhost in it, or at least it seems to me that it does: there is a line that reads

::1   localhost.localdomain    localhost

DarkCerberus

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

I've searched the puredata mailing list on google and found this  http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd … 97892.html - according to the link you'll need to enter /etc/network/interfaces or the equivalent on Arch and see about removing the # symbol on the following:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Apparently this solves the connection problem according to the mailing list link which I've provided. Just to note it may be different on your system but see if those are causing the issue first.

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oceanhead

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

according to the link you'll need to enter /etc/network/interfaces or the equivalent on Arch

I saw that post too, ant this is exactly why I wrote this post. Don't get me wrong, but I already searched a day for an answer before writing here, so I have seen all these things.
As I said,

I don't know anything about setting up a loopback interface

The fact is, I do not know the equivalent to /etc/network/interfaces. In my /etc there is a netctl/intefraces directory, which is empty. The man pages don't really have much in them, the manpage for netctl does not even mention the existance of an interfaces directory.

So I apologise for not being clear in my post. I wrote a general post because I was not sure that the problem was really what I thought, but it was. I'm really sorry that I had you lose time and I really appreaciate your help.

Can you or anybody help me to figure out how exactly I have to set up this loopback interface?

Last edited by oceanhead (2015-11-15 09:58:39)

oceanhead

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

Nobody? Really?

pigiron

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

::1   localhost.localdomain    localhost

That /etc/hosts entry will work for localhost when using IPv6, but pd is probably using IPv4. Try adding another line in your /etc/hosts file with the following:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

Last edited by pigiron (2015-11-21 21:10:33)

oceanhead

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

::1   localhost.localdomain    localhost

That /etc/hosts entry will work for localhost when using IPv6, but pd is probably using IPv4. Try adding another line in your /etc/hosts file with the following:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

I have that line but it does not say localhost, it says:

127.0.0.1              oceanhead.localdomain             oceanhead 

Will anything break if I add the line you suggested? Or should I just change the one I allready have?

Thanks, by the way

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

change the ones you have to

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost	oceanhead
::1		localhost.localdomain	localhost	oceanhead

as mentioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … e_hostname

Last edited by V1del (2015-12-02 22:48:06)

oceanhead

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Re: [SOLVED]PureData connection issues

change the ones you have to

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost	oceanhead
::1		localhost.localdomain	localhost	oceanhead

as mentioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … e_hostname

That did it. Thank you