HELP: Strange problem with breakpointer - stopped working

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Hello,
I am in the middle of my first ROR project and suddently the
breakpointer script (./script/breakpointer) does allways return the
error listed below.

All time before it was working without problems - but the funny think, I
did not change anything on the system (despite downloading the Suse
Security Patches).

I am running:
Suse 9.3
Rails 1.00
Ruby 1.8.3

Please help, if you have any idea.
Thanks
Christian

Error log from start breakpointer ./script/breakpointer (returned
immedeatly after start):
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in getaddrinfo': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:inopen_server_inaddr_any’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:860:in open_server' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:756:inopen_server’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:754:in open_server' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1336:ininitialize’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1624:in start_service' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/breakpoint_client.rb:146 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/breakpoint_client.rb:145 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:inrequire’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in
require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/breakpointer.rb:1 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:inrequire’
from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in
`require’
from ./breakpointer:3

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immedeatly after start):
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in getaddrinfo': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in open_server_inaddr_any’

Looks like a DNS lookup problem to me (though I wouldn’t expect the DRb
lib to need to do a DNS lookup for what should be a localhost
connection). I also grepped and googled for “immedeatly” and didn’t see
anything matching.

Rick

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Rick B. wrote:

immedeatly after start):
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in getaddrinfo': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:837:in open_server_inaddr_any’

Looks like a DNS lookup problem to me (though I wouldn’t expect the DRb
lib to need to do a DNS lookup for what should be a localhost
connection). I also grepped and googled for “immedeatly” and didn’t see
anything matching.

Rick

http://www.rickbradley.com MUPRN: 519
| for nobody but
random email haiku | itself when applauding the
| Berman anti-P2P bill.

Hi,
thank you for your tip. My etc/hosts looks like:

127.0.0.1 localhost

So I cant see the problem.

I think the problem is related to the ruby version. I checked the
breakpointer script:
DRb.start_service()
→ without parameter (as it is called in breakpointer) does not work for
Ruby 1.8.4 and Ruby 1.8.3 (works only with 1.8.2) → this will return
the error above.

If the uri is named and breakpointer is started with
./script/breakpointer -c druby://localhost:12345
it will work.
Christian