On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:26:40AM -0800, J. Liles wrote: > Sounds like you might be suffering from an invalid host name? Confirm that > both your host name and 'localhost' resolve to an IP address, if they > don't, fix it in /etc/hosts and try again.
That was it (slaps forehead). The entries in /etc/hosts were correct but udev had "helpfully" changed the ethernet interface from eth0 to eth1 at some point and I hadn't noticed. I've changed it back and now it works fine. Thanks for the help. John
