Unable to open socket for inet

[Marco atzeri]

On 8/4/2011 12:35 AM, J T Halliley wrote:
> Just installed Cygwin/X on WIndows XP Pro, Version 2002, SP 3.
> When I invoke startxwin, here's what I get:
>
> ----------------------
> bash>  startxwin
>
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.10.3.0
> OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3 [Windows NT 5.1 build 2600] (Win32)
> Package: version 1.10.3-1 built 2011-07-19
>
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> X :0 -multiwindow
>
> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
> _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/GP3JDP1-E6410:0
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet
> _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet/GP3JDP1-E6410:0
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet
> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for local
> _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for local/GP3JDP1-E6410:0
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for local
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> already running
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> ----------------------
>
> It seems as though there's a general networking issue:
>
> ----------------------
> bash>  ping 127.0.0.1
> icmp: unknown protocol
> ----------------------
>
> but using Windows ping from a DOS prompt works fine:
>
> ----------------------
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\>ping 127.0.0.1
>
> Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
> Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
> Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
>
> Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
>      Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>      Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
> Control-C
> ^C
> C:\>
> ----------------------
>
> I am in the Administrators group, so raw sockets should work.  We do run
> McAfee, so that could be an issue.
>
> Any ideas?  Both for XWin and for ping?  Are they related?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom

check using cygwin ping, if this fail than something is blocking
the communication.

The windows ping has more "authorization" so it could
misses the problem.

regards
Marco


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