From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-09-02T10:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: getnameinfo: ai_family not supported (SocketError)

On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:18 AM, A. S. Bradbury wrote:

> When trying to run gem_server on either of my gentoo systems, I get  
> the
> following:
> [2006-09-01 11:08:44] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
> [2006-09-01 11:08:44] INFO  ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:63:in `getaddrinfo':  
> getnameinfo: ai_family
> not supported (SocketError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:63:in  
> `create_listeners'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:75:in `listen'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:63:in `initialize'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:24:in  
> `initialize'
>         from /usr/bin/gem_server:353
>
> I've googled and only found some people with issues from a couple  
> of years
> back, which surprised me seeing as I've encountered this on two  
> different
> systems. Any ideas what's up?

Guessing from the last time I was playing around in create_listeners,  
but do your systems support IPv6?

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