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I am trying to create a new constant, but I keep getting the following error: HTML Transfer halted due to script error: Error on ioctl() call. Whats going on?

April 26, 2017constant create Error halted html transfer

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I am trying to create a new constant, but I keep getting the following error: HTML Transfer halted due to script error: Error on ioctl() call. Whats going on?

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The error is occurring when OpenCyc creates a new guid for the term. Of the several standard methods for creating a guid, on Linux we use the one which involves the ethernet mac address. So you currently must have an ethernet card installed on Linux to create constants with OpenCyc. We plan to fix this bug to generate a random guid if an ethernet card cannot be found on the host computer. However, at this point, if you do not have an ethernet card for internet connection, you will be unable to create new constants. We think this is fixed in version 0.7.