The hosts file is a system wide configuration file. It's used for mapping
hostnames to ip addresses.
I think you can have hosts file per network card as well.
By default Flash builder attempts to debug via the loop back address eg
"localhost"
You can test it via the command line or shell via ping localhost
If its working correctly you should get something like:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Mark>ping localhost
Pinging MarkLine [::1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Reply from ::1: time<1ms
Ping statistics for ::1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\Users\Mark>
(Sorry i'm currently at work and on a Windows pc, but it will be pretty much
the same)
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 12 February 2014 15:55
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: new Mac machine, running Flex application sticks at 57%
Thanks for the tip Mark, I've seen this posted on Google but never knew how to
set it. Could you give a little more detail? Is this a setting in Flash
Builder? Or is it a Mac OSX System Preferences setting?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Line" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:50:49 AM
Subject: RE: new Mac machine, running Flex application sticks at 57%
I'm not sure if you need this on OSX but could you tried making sure you have
localhost set up on in your hosts file correctly
I'm assuming it’s the same as most *nix in /etc/hosts
Add the following line: 127.0.0.1 localhost
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 12 February 2014 15:37
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: new Mac machine, running Flex application sticks at 57%
Still haven't resolved this... let me simplify the discussion. Instead of
upgrading the OS as originally posted for this thread, I'm now using a new
macbook OSX 10.9.1 machine with fresh install of FB 4.7, and SDK 4.12 (nightly
build). However, it produces the same results...
When I run any program, it doesn't match which program (firefox, chrome), the
progress panel shows "Launching Main (57%). Waiting to connect to the running
application..." After 2 minutes it times out with a popup that states:
The Flash Builder debugger failed to connect to the running application.
Ensure that:
1. For in-browser applications, you are running the debugger version of Flash
Player.
2. For network debugging on a mobile device, you have a reliable network
connection to the device, and port 7935 is open on your machine's firewall.
For example, the following application gives the above error:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/03/30/setting-the-base-color-on-an-fxcheckbox-control-in-flex-gumbo/
--> <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009";
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<s:CheckBox id="checkBox"
label="Spark CheckBox"
selected="true"
symbolColor="red"
horizontalCenter="0"
verticalCenter="0" />
</s:Application>
Things I've done to troubleshoot:
1. Verified debug version of Flash Player is installed.
2. Verified my "Adobe Flash Builder 4.ini" and "Adobe Flash Builder 4.7.ini"
files contain switches -Xms512m, -Xmx1024m, -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m.
3. Verified Main.html and Main.swf files are in the bin-debug directory.
4. disabled automatic rebuilds
5. Note, there is no anti-virus installed
6. Note, there's no connection to SVN or other repository
7. cleaned project several times
8. rebooted machine several times
I *really* could use some help here. Where should I look next?
(as an aside, I contacted Abode to purchase an individual per incident contract
support but after many hours on the phone being on hold and transferred in
circles between sales and support for 2 days, it appears no one in Adobe knows
where to route me or how I can purchase an individual support contract for
Adobe Flex Platform. Would be interested if anyone knows of a direct line or
contact.)
Thanks in advance.
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: "apache flex users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 9, 2014 11:45:09 PM
Subject: upgraded Mac OSX to Mavericks and application won't run
Hi experts,
I'm using a nightly build from SDK 4.12 from a month ago, and FB 4.7. I just
upgraded my Mac OSX from 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) to 10.9.1 (Mavericks).
Using the new OSX, when I rebuild the application then run it using Firefox
with debug version of FB (I verified it is debug version by visiting a website
showing me what version FP is running in the browser), the progress panel shows
"Launching Main (57%). Waiting to connect to the running application..." After
2 minutes it times out with a popup that states:
The Flash Builder debugger failed to connect to the running application.
Ensure that:
1. For in-browser applications, you are running the debugger version of Flash
Player.
2. For network debugging on a mobile device, you have a reliable network
connection to the device, and port 7935 is open on your machine's firewall.
I've seen this error many times in the past, but I've always been able to
recover it by exiting the application and browser, rebooting the machine,
rebuilding, and running again. I've tried everything I can think of in the new
OSX and nothing seems to change this. I verified the java version is the
correct version for OSX 10.9.1, and that Flash Builder's .ini file for setting
java heap size is sufficiently large (it's same settings used by OSX 10.6.8).
A couple of other observations, if it helps...
If I exit my web application, then start it again (still using 10.9.1), while
it's trying to connect (e.g. before it times out), if I double-click the
Main.html file in the bin-debug folder, the app runs fine but it runs inside a
tab of Flash Builder 4.7 (as opposed to in the Firefox browser).
Also, before upgrading to OSX 10.9.1, I bought an external hard drive and made
a clone of the original hard drive when it was OSX 10.6.8. If I boot the
computer using this clone, everything runs fine from OSX 10.6.8. If I boot
again using the (updated original) hard drive with OSX 10.9.1, I see the error
above.
If I switch to Safari (instead of firefox, and try OSX 10.9.1), the application
opens in a Safari browser window and runs, but as soon as I attempt to do an
HTTP POST operation to the server, I get a fault with the following showing in
the debugger:
event : mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent
event.fault : mx.rpc.Fault
event.fault.faultCode="Server.Error.Request"
event.fault.faultDetail="Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false
cancelable=false eventPhase=2, text="Error #2032: Stream Error. URL:
https://www.companyname.com:443/myapp/login";] .
event.fault.faultString="HTTP request error"
Would really appreciate any help, as I've run out of ideas what to try next.
Thanks in advance.
