[fluid-dev] fluidsynth hangs a looong time if the loopback network device (lo, localhost) is absent

[Herman Robak]

I had a quirk in my network setup: the "lo" device did not come up
at boot time.  When I was off-line I did not bother doing a
/etc/init.d/networking restart

But without the loopback device, fluidsynth hung on start-up.
And it hung for several minutes!  Eventually, something timed
out, and fluidsynth worked just fine.  But it was both puzzling
and annoying.

Should there be a sanity check for this?  I don't need network
support in my daily use of fluidsynth.  When the program hangs
for several minutes without any error messages, a naive user
will have little clue about what is wrong.

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Herman Robak