try the following on the command line: $ ping $(hostname -f) if it takes long time and then it says something like "unkwown host" that your machine has a name that is neither resolvable by dns nor by /etc/hosts lookup. To fix the problem try to add the following line in your /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 <put here the name of your computer as given by hostname -f> 2014/1/12 Horst Horst <spamfra...@gmail.com> > ...and guess what what: I've been working on my first web2py project since > almost three month, and thought this was normal! (I hear you laughing.) > Until yesterday when I had my WLAN turned off and web2py launched almost > instantly. > > I couldn't believe it, launched the debugger, and traced the problem down > to the line: > > gluon/widget.py:726 > options.ips = list(set( # no duplicates > [addrinfo[4][0] for addrinfo in getipaddrinfo(socket.getfqdn()) > > Googling the culprit line gave me this post: > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/startup$20slow/web2py/Y0ybKPM4MzI/pWFVHj9_ynwJ > > but unfortunately the solution doesn't work for me. My /etc/hosts is in > virgin state (and commenting out any line(s) doesn't change anything): > > $ cat /etc/hosts > ## > # Host Database > # > # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface > # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. > ## > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost > ::1 localhost > fe80::1%lo0 localhost > > Being rather clueless about network problems, I'm now lost. However, I > wonder if anyone else has this problem, since I remember web2py startup to > be as slow on my previous MacBook running 10.8.6. > > Looking at the code, I can work around the problem by simply setting > > options.ips = [] > > However, I'd prefer a way to launch web2py without it looking up these > IPs. options.ips seems to be exclusively used in web2pyDialog, so I wonder > why the lookup can't be done there locally, and launching without the > dialog would be fast. Especially, running my unit test would then go > instantly (I hear you laughing...). > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
