Scala: Hello World Script does not work

Question

I am learning Scala and I am stuck at hello world script.

My hello.scala is:

Console.println("Hello World")

I am running the script like this:

scala hello.scala

I get a weird exception:

java.net.UnknownHostException: salil: salil: Name or service not known
    at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:1438)
    at scala.tools.nsc.io.Socket$.localhost(Socket.scala:38)
    at scala.tools.nsc.CompileSocket.getsock$1(CompileSocket.scala:169)
    at scala.tools.nsc.CompileSocket.getOrCreateSocket(CompileSocket.scala:184)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner.compileWithDaemon(ScriptRunner.scala:80)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner.compile$1(ScriptRunner.scala:123)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner$$anonfun$withCompiledScript$1.apply$mcZ$sp(ScriptRunner.scala:157)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner$$anonfun$withCompiledScript$1.apply(ScriptRunner.scala:131)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner$$anonfun$withCompiledScript$1.apply(ScriptRunner.scala:131)
    at scala.tools.nsc.util.package$.waitingForThreads(package.scala:26)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner.withCompiledScript(ScriptRunner.scala:130)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner.runScript(ScriptRunner.scala:188)
    at scala.tools.nsc.ScriptRunner.runScriptAndCatch(ScriptRunner.scala:201)
    at scala.tools.nsc.MainGenericRunner.runTarget$1(MainGenericRunner.scala

my SCALA_HOME is /opt/scala-2.9.1.final
and my Path has $SCALA_HOME/bin in it.
My JAVA_HOME is: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0

Is this an issue with my settings or is it due to some issue with Scala libraries and JDK1.7?

Does it work with a different version of Scala/JDK?

Jus12
– Jus12

2011-10-10 15:14:43 +00:00
Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 15:14 — Jus12
– Jus12, Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 15:14

Brian Hsu · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-10 15:16:13Z

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It seems your host name does not resolve to correct IP address, so scala could not connect to the compiler service. Please check your /etc/hosts file, it should have a a record like the following:

127.0.0.1    salil

After setting your hostname/IP mapping, you could use ping salil command to confirm that you the setting is correct.

answered Oct 10, 2011 at 15:16

Brian Hsu

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4 Comments

Kevin Wright Over a year ago

This is one that keeps cropping up on OSX (and it seems fairly obvious that it is OSX in this case, given the value of JAVA_HOME)

Salil Over a year ago

@Brian hsu, thanks so much. I will try it soon. Based on the upvotes your answer got, I am sure it will work :-)

retronym Over a year ago

scala -nocompdaemon is a workaround: it doesn't start a background process for compilation.

pmod Over a year ago

@retronym this workaround doesn't solve the issue for me, (scala 2.11.7, Java 1.8.0_51), while answer does

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