Unable to connect, sometimes, error 10061

[Holgate Dana-r47359]

After more debugging I think this is not a VNC problem. It appears to be a xinetd problem.   When the problem occurred I did "lsof -i :59xx" and determine that xinetd was not listening on the port, just as error 10061 suggests. It would appear that the handoff of the port from Xvnc back to xinetd when Xvnc terminates when someone logs out.  I'm guessing that somehow xinetd misses the "death of a child" signal and fails to reopen and listen to the port.

Now to see if anything like this has been reported in an "xinetd" discussion.

Dana

-----Original Message-----

Subject: Unable to connect, sometimes, error 10061


I've searched the lists, found things similar but not quite the same as what I've encountered and got some clues but no solutions to be found.
 
I am running the VNC server on Red Hat Linux and the VNC viewer on WinXP Pro and Win2K.
 
Most of the time it works fine, but once in a while someone will logout from Linux, causing the VNC viewer to terminate. Then when they try to connect again, they 
can't and get the 10061 error.
 
I am running Xvnc in -inetd mode so that xinetd is listening on the ports for the 
connection and then starts the vnc server and hands the port over to the server.  As 
I understand it, the Xvnc/vncserver runs on the port until the connection is broken 
(normally by logging out) at which time the vnc server hands the port back to xinetd 
who waits for another connection request. Also, when the vnc viewer is terminated 
without logging out of Linux the vncserver stays alive and continues on the port 
such that the vnc viewer connecting to that port sees the Linux session as it was 
when the viewer was terminated. (Exactly the behavior I want.)
 
Once a port cannot be connected to, only a restart of xinetd will restore 
connectability for that port. Meanwhile, connections to other ports work fine.
 
I've got xinetd running in debug mode, spewing out lots of info, waiting for it to 
happen again. I suspect that I won't see much because xinetd probably doesn't see 
the connect request.
 
Any suggestions on what this problem might be and how to fix it or how to 
investigate it further?
 
Help!
 
Dana
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