[AG-TECH] AGServiceManager.py uses lo instead of eth0

James Miller millerjw at psc.edu
Mon Feb 16 08:31:26 CST 2009


Yep, that was it... thanks!

Christoph Willing wrote:
> 
> On 14/02/2009, at 2:41 AM, James Miller wrote:
> 
>> I am doing a quick upgrade of my capture machine running Ubuntu 8.10 
>> and I installed the accessgrid3.2 package from the Univ of Queensland 
>> vislab source.  I've never had problems with past packages on previous 
>> versions of ubuntu.
>>
>> However, when I run AGServiceManager.py in a terminal, it's trying to 
>> use the loopback address instead of eth0.
> 
> James,
> 
> What does your /etc/hosts file look like? On a machine named "mymachine" 
> using dhcp, that file will begin with something like:
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> 127.0.1.1       mymachine
> 
> Try changing it so that the real IP address of mymachine and fully 
> qualified domain name is in there, commenting out or removing the 
> exisiting line with the machine's name e.g.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> #127.0.1.1      mymachine
> 123.45.67.89    mymachine.somedomain.xyz    mymachine
> 
> 
> chris
> 
> 
> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland


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