visual works appears when openning RB on mac x86

Hi, :)

It seems strange, but I was trying to install RB for intel x86 on a mac pro (intel xeon processors), then I pressed run. and a Visual works menu appears.
I checked and repeated the download,removed the old RB, and run the program again, and the Visuual works appears again when opening RB.
An there is no the RB window (start/stop,view, open in browser).
I have no installed in my machine, in fact iRB is being installedon on MAC 10.5.4,fresh installation.
Any idea about the problem?

thanks a lot

Thanks. That's strange, I agree. Do you have a screenshot perhaps?

-Carl

hi Carl,

yes, I am sending it via mail

thanks a lot

Okay, I wonder if this is related to something we've seen when running on Linux machines. Is it possible that either:

-Your computer or firewall is blocking port 8008
-There is some other software using port 8008
-Your account does not have proper permissions to open an IP socket

These are all possibilities when running Linux which is a flavor of Unix, and the Mac OS is also a flavor of Unix.

I'll try to think of other possibilities.

-Carl

Thanks Carl,

I just reinstalled the sofware,
the problem was the hostname.
RB works in the mac os x server then it has defined correctly a hostname. when no hostname resolved then the machine uses 127.0.0.1, but RB doesnt run. resolving correctly the hostname makes RB to run correctly.

thanks a lot