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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