Re: Socket problem using beta2 on Windows-XP

Nope, no anti-virus and no firewall (other then the box that fronts my
home-network to the outside world).

- thomas

Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>Hi,
>>I've installed PostgreSQL 8.1-beta2 as a service on my
>>Windows-XP box.
>>It runs fine but I get repeated messages like this in the log:
>>
>> 2005-09-29 00:41:09 FATAL: could not duplicate socket
>>1880 for use in backend: error code 10038
>>
>>and for each message printed, a new postgres process is
>>created. To make things worse, those processes do not die
>>when I stop the service.
>>
>>I use sysinternals tcpview to monitor my sockets. I know that
>>no other process is using 1880. Each started postgres process
>>will occupy two, seemingly random ports that apparently form
>>a loop somehow. This is a typical entry:
>>
>> <non-existent>:3136 TCP 127.0.0.1:1554
>>127.0.0.1:1555 ESTABLISHED
>> <non-existent>:3136 TCP 127.0.0.1:1555
>>127.0.0.1:1554 ESTABLISHED
>>
>>The weird thing is that there is no process with pid 3136
>>(hence the name <non-existent>). There is a postgres process
>>with another pid in my process listing. If I kill that, the
>><non-existstent> entries go away.
>>
>>Looks like pid 3136 is talking to itself. A pipe() followed
>>by failure to start the new process perhaps?
>>
>>
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>Do you by any chance run any antivirus or firewall software? If so, can
>you try removing it (note! actual uninstall, not just disabling it!)
>
>//Magnus
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