Issue 4023 in selenium: common/platform.rb:153 - getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

[sele...@googlecode.com]

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New issue 4023 by feby.geo...@gmail.com: common/platform.rb:153 -
getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=4023

I started getting this error after upgrading to selenium-webdriver gem
2.22.1.

b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox

Basically the browser is not launched ( OSX 10.6.8, ruby 1.8.7 ) and a ruby
debug mode showed the below output.

Exception `SocketError' at
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.22.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/platform.rb:153
- getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I went through the similar issue reported here and tried the solutions such
as making sure localhost entry is present in /etc/hosts and the port is not
used up by any other processes etc.

Let me know any more info is required.
I went back to selenium-webdriver -v 2.21.2 and everything works.

[sele...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 4023 by feby.geo...@gmail.com: common/platform.rb:153 -

getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=4023

I think my issue is same as the one in 4020. apologies in filing a new one,
but now I don't know how to mark it as a duplicate one.

[sele...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 4020

Comment #2 on issue 4023 by barancev: common/platform.rb:153 - getaddrinfo:

nodename nor servname provided, or not known
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=4023

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