This is a list of commonly encountered problems, known issues, and their solutions.
ERROR mdns: mdns lookup error: failed to bind to any unicast udp port mdns.go:140 ...
This is caused by a limit on the number of files allowed when qri is trying to connect to the distributed web. You can increase the open file descriptor limit by entering the following command ulimit -n 2560
before running qri connect
. See ipfs-inactive/support#17 for details.
getting the qri binary on your $PATH
This is caused by $PATH not containing a reference to $GOPATH/bin. To alleviate this problem try:
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21001387/how-do-i-set-the-gopath-environment-variable-on-ubuntu-what-file-must-i-edit/21012349#21012349 for details.