Hello David- I have just fixed this on one of our machines. You need to make sure that your machine is properly listed in the host table ie. /etc/hosts . once i corrected this, mine fired right up. cheers- todd -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of david albesa-jove Sent: Fri 11/30/2007 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [phenixbb] phenix gui startup problem Dear phenix users, After installation of phenix using phenix-installer-1.3b-rc6-intel-linux-2.6-x86_64.tar and setting up the environmental variables, phenix gui fails to startup giving the following error: (99, 'Cannot assign requested address'). See bellow for further details. Thanks for your help, David ************************************************************8 [root@bio-daj2 phenix2]# phenix +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Warning +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hostname is bio-daj2.cmmi.ic.ac.uk but fully qualified domain is bio-daj2 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Warning +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Warning +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IP nslookup is ls-saf-g34b.saf.ic.ac.uk but FQDN is bio-daj2 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Warning +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Running the PHENIX GUI with /usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/build/intel- linux-2.6-x86_64/base/bin/python PHENIX distribution located in /usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/phenix Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/build/intel- linux-2.6-x86_64/base/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 460, in __bootstrap self.run() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/build/intel- linux-2.6-x86_64/base/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 440, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/phenix/wxGUI/GUIServer.py", line 14, in __init__ PhenixServer.PhenixServer.__init__(self, port, GUIRequestHandler) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/phenix/phenix/server/PhenixServer.py", line 50, in __init__ ddbs = apply(func, (server_address, handler),{}) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/phenix/phenix/server/SocketServer.py", line 333, in __init__ self.server_bind() File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/phenix/phenix/server/PhenixServer.py", line 65, in server_bind SocketServer.ThreadingTCPServer.server_bind(self) File "/usr/local/phenix-1.3b-rc6/phenix/phenix/server/SocketServer.py", line 344, in server_bind self.socket.bind(self.server_address) File "<string>", line 1, in bind error: (99, 'Cannot assign requested address') ======================================================= David Albesa-Jove PhD Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection Division of Cell and Molecular Biology Flowers Building, Level 1 South Kensington Campus Imperial College London London. SW7 2AZ. Tel: 020.7594.3070 e-mail: [email protected] This email was scanned with Mcafee's Anti-Virus appliance, but this is no guarantee that no virus exists. You are asked to make sure you have virus protection and that it is up to date.