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[Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Hackert <thackert@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>> "error: 99: Cannot assign requested address" - again, this indicates
>> EADDRNOTAVAIL, suggesting that 127.0.0.1 is missing on the system.
>
> But does it mean, I have to install bind to use mariadb-server? I would
> prefer to not install it ... ;)

No, it has nothing to do with bind.

It means that the default configuration file is set up with an IP address that
is invalid on your system.

> Well, in my /etc/networks I have the line
> <quote>
> loopback        127.0.0.0
> </quote>
> . But if I use the address, the router has assigned to my Desktop PC
> (192.168.X.YYY ... ;) ), it works :) Then I can use "apt-get -f install"
> to fix the installation. But still wondering, if this could not be fixed
> (say: a pre-install script, which checks the system for a working
> network and/or which IP address is assigned to the machine or the like

In principle, yes. However, I am reluctant to change this. It sounds like your
system has a broken network setup, I have never seen before a correctly
configured system without 127.0.0.1 address. Also note that this comes from
the original Debian MySQL packages, so changing it also is dangerous in case
we break compatibility.

If you want, you can send me the output of

    ifconfig -a

so I can check if there is something special with your network setup. My guess
would be that you would find other programs have similar problems with missing
127.0.0.1 address.

 - Kristian.