Hi all,

i just read the article @ LinuxMagazin (a linux mag from germany ) and was very supprised of the convenience of processing. But i can't get processing to work on a linux machine using jdk from Sun. First, here's the error message when i try to start a sketch:

Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.Error: Unable to launch target VM: java.net.BindException: Die angeforderte Adresse kann nicht zugewiesen werden
       at processing.app.debug.Runner.launchVirtualMachine(Runner.java:410)
       at processing.app.debug.Runner.launch(Runner.java:122)
       at processing.app.Editor$43.run(Editor.java:1572)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

Second my java Version:
# java -version
java version "1.6.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 10.0-b23, mixed mode)

I already read the text at http://www.processing.org/reference/environment/platforms.html but, as i said, i'm using the official JDK/JRE from Sun and not the openjdk or gij-package.

Also neither "launcher=/usr/bin/java" (written down in LinuxMagazin) nor "launcher.linux=/usr/bin/java" (Enviroment-page) works.

Ideas? Mistakes i've done during install?

action_owl wrote on Jan 17^th, 2009, 2:00am:


OS: Debian Lenny (Testing 5.0)

# uname -a
Linux rl 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 15 18:15:07 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

/edit
The problem was that i have to enable localhost so the jvm has something to listen on. So "ifup lo" solves the problem.