Re: Getting Gnome to run (unable to bind port 16001) The solution for me was to do this: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
The "unable to bind port 16001" message is issued by the Debian version of esd. Strangely enough, the RedHat version (whose executable is four times larger!) worked. So at first I just symlinked '/usr/bin/esd' to the redhat version and left the problem at that. (I have RedHat 6.1 installed on another partition.) But I had one other problem. I tried to set up named on my machine and nslookup couldn't connect to it. Spent a day on this. Finally I saw something in the Debian mailing list archive which suggested doing the ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 and this fixed the named access problem. On a hunch I checked esd and it was fixed too. Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
