Well sorry for the noise and answering myself (but it seems this pops up every now and then so might be good to write it up).
Thanks to Roman who gave me in IRC the right pointer to look further into network issues...
On 25/09/12 23:17, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
This seems to be an persisting [1][2][3] problem I had already encountered:
All of a sudden I'm experiencing this again. I haven't changed or updated anything that I recall on the system which is debian wheezy.
Well I should have recalled better, :) actually I *had* installed wicd replacing network-manager, eventually reinstalling it trying to get a wifi connection to work (another story) and somehow /etc/network/interfaces was all commented including the loopback part:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback
This means you have no localhot, which is what Pd tries to connect to, thus the hanging and failure.
Uncommenting those lines solved the problem.
Yawn, Lorenzo.
Running with: -verbose -stderr -d 3
yields:
set pd_whichmidiapi 2 Pd-0.43.2 ("") compiled 22:56:26 Sep 25 2012 port 5400 TCL_LIBRARY="./lib/pd/lib/tcl/library" TK_LIBRARY="./lib/pd/lib/tk/library" wish "./lib/pd/tcl//pd-gui.tcl" 5400 priority 6 scheduling enabled. Waiting for connection request... priority 8 scheduling enabled. ./lib/pd/bin/pd-watchdog watchdog: signaling pd... watchdog: signaling pd... ...
[After serveral lines] of those
WARNING: connect to pd failed, retrying port localhost:5400.
Running with -nogui pd seems to start ok.
This is with various versions of 0.43 (vanilla fresh compiled, debian packaged puredata, pd-extended latest autobuild).
So it probably depends form something (tcl?) in the system, but what?
I tried reinstalling tcl and tk but to no avail.
Help please, I really need Pd in this moment! Thanks Lorenzo
[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3434378&group_id=557...
[2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general/78488 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647844