Thanks for the replies.

I tried to disable the firewall, but that did not make a difference.

I installed the latest version (0.40.3) but I still got the same:

pdtk_post {input channels = 2, output channels = 2} set pd_whichapi 0 set pd_whichmidiapi 3 Pd version 0.40-3extended-20080530 compiled 05:58:20 May 30 2008 port 5400 Waiting for connection request...

I found this FAQ: http://puredata.info/docs/faq but I could not see anything related to localhost. The closest thing I found was the loopback network interface. I tried to install that on my windows machine, as described on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839013 but it did not change anything.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Enrico

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

Try the latest version, which is about to be released:

http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/Pd-0.40.3- extended-20080530-windowsxp-i386.exe

http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest

Or search puredata.info for the faq and search the faq for "localhost", I think it was something related to that.

.hc

On May 30, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Enrico Costanza wrote:

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Hello.

I have pd 0.39-3 extended installed on my machine, but it does not run. If I try to launch pd.exe I can see the process in the task manager, but nothing happens. If I try to launch on the command prompt pd -verbose -d 5 -stderr I get the following:

input channels = 2, output channels = 2 set pd_whichapi 0 set pd_whichmidiapi 3 Pd version 0.39-3extended compiled 06:04:42 Oct 16 2007 port 5400 Waiting for connection request...

and it stops there.

I tried reinstalling with no luck. I also tried the 0.41 version but I always got the same.

Any suggestions? I could not find anything on the web that seemed related.

Thanks, Enrico

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Solved.

Thanks for suggesting the pdsend/pdreceive test. It made me realize that I had an extra firewall in place (I thought I only had the windows firewall). So opening it solved the problem.

Thanks! Enrico

Roman Haefeli wrote:

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 15:44 +0200, Enrico Costanza wrote:

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Thanks for the replies.

I tried to disable the firewall, but that did not make a difference.

I installed the latest version (0.40.3) but I still got the same:

pdtk_post {input channels = 2, output channels = 2} set pd_whichapi 0 set pd_whichmidiapi 3 Pd version 0.40-3extended-20080530 compiled 05:58:20 May 30 2008 port 5400 Waiting for connection request...

I found this FAQ: http://puredata.info/docs/faq but I could not see anything related to localhost. The closest thing I found was the loopback network interface. I tried to install that on my windows machine, as described on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839013 but it did not change anything.

Any ideas?

sorry, i don't have any new ideas.

afaik, the problem regarding missing loopback device happened only on ubuntu machines (hardy or gutsy, cannot recall exactly), whereas on windows this kind of issues was related to restricted firewall settings most of the times. afaik, a windows installation usually comes with a loopback device already, there is no need to install it separately.

your problem strongly looks like a networking problem and i am quite surprised, that disabling the firewall didn't help. just to make sure, that not pd is the culprit, but connecting to localhost, you could try the following:

pd is shipped with additional two tools: pdsend.exe and pdreceive.exe. start pdreceive from a commandline:

pdreceive.exe 5400

and then try in another cmd to connect to it with pdsend.exe:

pdsend.exe 5400

if connection succeds, everything what you type into the pdsend cmd should appear in the pdreceive cmd. don't forget to terminate each message with a ';'.

if this fails, while the firewall is disabled, something else is needs to be wrong with your network setup. someone with some deeper expertise in networking on windows might help then.

roman

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