Re: XWin listens on too many TCP ports and killing existing connections.

[Caphe Noir <caphenoir at yahoo dot com>]

Ago -

Yes, I do have ZoneAlarm 4.5 installed.  There is no
log of anything related to Cygwin that were blocked by
the firewall.


Here's XWin.log:

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.7.0.0-8

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard 

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be
set to root
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1
iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for
more information
winPrefsLoadPreferences: /cygdrive/f/knn/home/.XWinrc
LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration
file...
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported
engines 00000007
winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display
depth of 32 bits per pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280
height: 1023 depth: 32
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00
000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00
000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel
support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization
disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the
kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)

(EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (00000409) is unknown
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant =
"(null)" Options = "(null)"
Could not init font path element
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 640 511
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock ()
returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock ()
returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock ()
returned.
winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winInitClipboard ()
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard
returned.
winClipboardProc - Hello
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and
successfully opened the display.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and
successfully opened the display.
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and
successfully opened the display.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started,
aborting.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started,
aborting.



Thanks,
Khoa Nguyen

--- Alexander Gottwald
<alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Caphe Noir wrote:
> 
> > I've been having problems with my current
> listening
> > TCP connections in port range 3000-5000 (not
> exact)
> > seems are getting disconnected because XWin spawns
> a
> > new listening connection every second in this port
> > range.  
> > 
> > The listening ports by XWin seems to increment by
> 4
> > every time, cycles up to 5000 then wrap back to
> 3000. 
> > If the listening port by XWin happens to be a port
> > that already have a listening server, then that
> > listening server is removed.
> > 
> > For example, if I currently have an SSH connection
> > that listens on port 3008.  Then XWin starts a
> listen
> > on port 3000; at the next second, it listen on
> 3004;
> > and at the next second, it listens on port 3008,
> > causing a conflict and my SSH connection
> disappear.
> > 
> > Any body have any idea how to fix this?
> 
> Please send the /tmp/XWin.log logfile.
> 
> Do you have any kind of firewall or vpn software
> installed
> on your computer?
> 
> bye
> 	ago
> -- 
>  Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de 
>  http://www.gotti.org           ICQ: 126018723



	
		
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