[slime-devel] Re: bogus Error: "Local socket address already in use"

[Roman Budzianowski]

Appologies. Too many machines and configurations.
I was starting swank in my .clinit.cl. Second attempt to start swank  
causes the error.
Reverse ssh tunnel doesn't interfere with swank.

Roman

On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Roman Budzianowski wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Helmut Eller wrote:
>
>> * Roman Budzianowski [2008-09-16 02:46+0200] writes:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Two things:
>>>
>>> 1. I am running a reverse ssh tunnel on port 6666
>>
>> Does that mean that ssh is listening on 6666?  That would be a  
>> sensible
>> explanation for the error.
>
> I am not sure how the reverse tunnel works in ssh, but obviously ssh  
> is not listening on the port in the normal sense.
> The purpose of the tunnel is to do port mapping in effect. I had  
> been using a forward tunnel before which initiates on the client.
> Reverse tunnel originates on the server.
>
>>> 2. After taking the default restart, the connection actually works.
>>
>> The connection works after invoking the abort restart?  It's hard to
>> imagine that you had a working connection without creating a  
>> listening
>> socket.  It's more likely that some other process was actually  
>> listening
>> on 6666, perhaps an old Swank server.
>
> I can repeat the scenario. I get the error, then ^D and the swank  
> server is running fine.
> I connect remotely on port 6666 and get the repl. I type (exit) and  
> the very same lisp image exits.
>
> CL-USER(1): (swank:create-server :port 6666)
> Error: "Local socket address already in use" (errno 98) occured  
> while creating a passive socket on 127.0.0.1 port 6666 .
>  [condition type: SOCKET-ERROR]
>
> Restart actions (select using :continue):
> 0: Return to Top Level (an "abort" restart).
> 1: Abort entirely from this (lisp) process.
> [1] CL-USER(2): :pop
> CL-USER(2): mp:*all-processes*
> (#<MULTIPROCESSING:PROCESS Swank 6666(50) waiting for input @  
> #x12ad9df002>
> #<MULTIPROCESSING:PROCESS Initial Lisp Listener(49) @ #x12ac225892>)
> CL-USER(3):
>
>
>>> I had no problem with a previous version. This is in allegro.
>>
>> SLIME's source code for creating connections didn't change recently.
>
> I tried older swank and I got the same error - my mistake.
>
>>
>>
>> Helmut.
>>
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