startup problem

hi,

i hope, i can ask the following question on this list. i have not been 
able to start the jigsaw httpd, which quits with these errors:

foghorn% java w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd -root /home/sailors/ams/solaris/Jigsaw/Jigsaw   
loading properties from: 
/home/sailors/ams/solaris/Jigsaw/Jigsaw/config/httpd.props
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java)
        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java)
        at java.net.InetAddress.<clinit>(InetAddress.java:46)
        at 
        at w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.initialize(httpd.java)
        at w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.<init>(httpd.java)
        at w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.main(httpd.java)
*** [httpd]: fatal error, exiting !
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost(InetAddress.java:280)
        at w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.initializeFromProperties(httpd.java)
        at w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.initialize(httpd.java)
        at w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.<init>(httpd.java)
        at w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd.main(httpd.java)

can anyone suggest what is the reason behind it? thanks,

-a

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