[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: libfakeroot errors

[From: Neil Jerram]

Riku Voipio <rvoipio+maemo at movial.fi> writes:

> On Sunday 26 March 2006 16:15, Neil Jerram wrote:
>> >> libfakeroot: connect: Cannot assign requested address
>
>> For the record, I've now managed to avoid these errors by moving my
>> maemo work to a higher spec machine.  (Specifically, from a Pentium
>> III 800MHz with 128Mb RAM, to a Pentium III 935MHz with 256Mb RAM.)
>
>> Of course, it could be that some other factor in the move was
>> relevant, such as the way I installed or used scratchbox (with the
>> benefit of more experience), but my guess is that performance was the
>> main factor.
>
> You are running out out tcp/ip local port range. Linux kernel will assign a 
> static amount of local ports on your system startup, with a quite low default
> for systems with little ram (1024 ports minimum afaik). 
> use /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range to set the range. Non-ancienct 
> versions of scratchbox have already measures against this issue.

Aha!  Thanks for explaining this.  If I need to switch back to the
other machine, I'll try that out.

     Neil