Re: [linux-audio-user] dssi segfault

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
Received on Wed Jan 26 12:15:08 2005