AI Carriers Java error solved(for me at least)

[chicken2690]

I did it

Hey Harleyman, it took a bit of time but all the carriers are installed and AICarriers2 is up and running. Whoopee!

 

[GR27]

A post in Avsim's FsX forum showed the way http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=252685

The folder hierarchy works for Vista but I'm not sure if this applies to XP?

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

To elaborate a little, having found the "hosts" file I copied it to desktop and opened it in notepad and added the line "127.0.0.1 localhost" (without speech marks of course) then offered it back up to the "etc" folder and overwrote the original.
Works a treat!

This is how the hosts file should look in notepad after editing:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost

Roger, i want to tell you somthing, i hope you will not get this the wrong way, but i think that you are @$$$%*&76#%$, i am sorry, i am just too excited to speak, let me try again, you know what i have one thing to say to you and it is:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

:ernae:

I have Vista 64 and finally it is working, thank you.

 

[napamule]

Space

And Henry (et all) make sure there is a LEAST 1 space after ISP numbers and 'localhost' text or it's mox nix (lots of simmers like to jam text together as a matter of habit). My 2 cents.
Chuck B
Napamule

 

[GR27]

Hi, unfortunately AICarriers2 is "gone" again, it worked fine after i add "127.0.0.1 localhost" to C:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts, but yesterday after i had an automatic update to my Vista 64bit i no longer see the AICarrier in the add-on menu in FSX, i went back to C:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts to see maybe the "127.0.0.1 localhost" was erased, but no, it is still there, any idea?
Thank you.

 

[majorv]

Hi, unfortunately AICarriers2 is "gone" again, it worked fine after i add "127.0.0.1 localhost" to C:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts, but yesterday after i had an automatic update to my Vista 64bit i no longer see the AICarrier in the add-on menu in FSX, i went back to C:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts to see maybe the "127.0.0.1 localhost" was erased, but no, it is still there, any idea?
Thank you.

Same thing happened to me - you probably installed REX 2.0 or some other add on which wiped out your exe.xml file. Just run the AICarriers2 installer again and you should be good to go. Good luck.

Major V

 

[GR27]

Same thing happened to me - you probably installed REX 2.0 or some other add on which wiped out your exe.xml file. Just run the AICarriers2 installer again and you should be good to go. Good luck.

Major V

Yep, you are right, it was probably REX 2.0, thank you for your help.

 

[3/7charlie]

Well, tried that fix. Reloaded AI Carriers, and no error message. And nothing in the addon tab. No sign of it at all. Tried putting AI C in users, c drive, FSX main folder, Crogram files. In short, nada. Been looking for earlier posts, and cant find the info I need. To the point, where in the heck should AI Carriers be installed?