[ardour-dev] Liblo causes hang on startup

[John Rigg]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:47:10PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:21 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
> > I finally got Ardour2 beta11.1 to compile on Debian Etch :-)
> > 
> > However, I find if it's compiled with liblo support, as per
> > the default SConstruct setting, it hangs for 2 to 3 minutes
> > before anything happens at startup. Recompiling without liblo
> > fixed it. I'm guessing that it was looking for non-existent
> > connections. Is there any reason why liblo support can't be set
> > to 0 in SConstruct by default?
> 
> this is generally indicative of a misconfigured /etc/hosts or
> equivalent. i wish i could tell you what the mistake is, but i don't
> recall. i do know that steve harris (liblo's primary author) ran into
> several people having this issue and pointed them at the right fix.
> google might help ... or try the LAD list.

My /etc/hosts file is configured correctly for other networking,
and I can ping both localhost and my hostname. I need to look into
it further. For now I'll just use Ardour2 without liblo support.

Thanks,
John