On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 22:07 +0400, yantux yantux wrote: > > 10.10.07, 18:58, Rick Bilonick (rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx): > > > I'm running maxima under Fedora 6. It runs fine in a shell. If I start > > wvmaxima or xmaxima, the gui's open but report they cannot connect to > > maxima (it times out). I'm running maxima also on a Fedora 7 system and > > the gui's have no problem connecting to maxima. Any idea on what is > > going wrong under Fedora 6? > > Rick B. > > This is old problem. > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=814957&group_id=4933&atid=104933 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=322171 > You may add to bugzilla bag that you found. > Thanks. When I researched this prior to asking on the list, the problem seemed to be due to a socket problem (requiring unblocking by the firewall). Just adding "127.0.0.1 localhost" to the /etc/host fixed the problem. Thanks!!! Rick B.