Q: Why does this error occur when starting iPortal service on a Linux system: "Unable to set localhost. This prevents creation of a GUID"?

A: Please configure the IP address corresponding to host name in /etc/hosts file. If you add the last row, it means to map linux-3z6l to 192.168.112.213.

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# Syntax:  
# IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.112.213 linux-3z6l 


20 Sep,2019
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