[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#568509: Bug#568509: josm: fails to start saying that network is unreachable

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> Revision: Manifest-Version: 1.0
> Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.7.1
> Created-By: 14.0-b16 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
> Main-class: JOSM
> Main-Version: 2255 SVN
> Main-Date: 2009-10-07T19:25:15.114514Z
> Debian-Release: 0.0.svn2255-1
> Class-Path: /usr/share/java/gettext-commons.jar /usr/share/java/metadata-extractor.jar
> Warning: failed to read MOTD from 'http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Fr:StartupPage'. Exception was: java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable
> Warning: failed to read MOTD from 'http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/StartupPage'. Exception was: java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable
> Fatal: failed to locate image 'styles/standard/shop/rental/library.png'. This is a serious configuration problem. JOSM will stop working.
> Could not get presets icon styles/standard/shop/rental/library.png
> 
> 

I would simply add -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true at java call to work around this problem without 
requiring the user changes his/her setup. At least, until a definitive solution will be available
for these cases.

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Francesco P. Lovergine