Could not start local Wiretap IFFFS service (New Install) + Solution

[Anonymous]

I've been trying to get Flame (2020 trial) running on Linux purely for development purposes - this has not been easy, but to make a long story short ... I finally got to a point where I could run Flame only to get the "Could not start local Wiretap IFFFS service" when I hit Start (User and Project created). 

The problem??? ... /etc/hosts only has localhost (127.0.0.1) defined

The solution!!! Add my actual computer name to this file also set to 127.0.0.1.

In this case, my computer is also the so called "Host Computer" in the Flame GUI, and if it would be another machine I guess you'd need to add its actual IP-address to the hosts file.

Since I didn't have any problems running Flame on a Macbook Pro, I just checked /etc/hosts on the Mac - it's a pure vanilla hosts file (for Mac) without any computer name addition. The funny thing now, running both Mac and Linux side by side, the Linux machine actually appears automatically as a selectable "Host Computer" in Flame running on the Mac, but obviously not the other way around ... until I add the Mac's IP to the Linux hosts file I guess.

Putting this out here, in case someone else runs into this problem ... or if I forget for another time. There was another somewhat related post, but it didn't specify this solution in it's simplicity and I've also not seen anywhere specified that one needs to add the local computer name to the hosts file manually ... or I'm just a very stressed developer who might have missed the small print somewhere. BTW ... my user name here is just a temporary dummy name, so don't expect to me to follow up.