On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:19 -0500, nando wrote: > My experience over the years with Gambas and really odd issues > that appears to point to Gambas failing always (ALWAYS!) was that > Gambas did not fail, but something else broke. > Unless you have a hard drive failure, bad cable, etc, your Gambas > is almost certainly working just fine. Something else changed > somewhere else. > Try telneting from a shell to what you want. > Remember, windows update can reset firewalls, add rules > do things and change settings and never ask you. > Look there first. You'll find windows is probably the issue.
Windows can't be the problem because the client and the proxy are on the linux box. The client is not communicating with the proxy over a socket. The server is on Windows and has nothing to do with the issue. Nevertheless, thanks for trying. > -Fernando > > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: Kad Mann <nospam.nospam.nos...@gmail.com> > To: gambas <gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:03:53 +1100 > Subject: [Gambas-user] Really weird socket problem > > > I need pointers on where I might look to solve this. > > > > I've written a proxy class in gambas (2.16) and it was working > > brilliantly when I went to be last night and left it running. When I got > > up this morning my Linux desktop, which was running the compiled gambas > > program, note compiled program - not inside the IDE, displayed a message > > about a broken pipe in the proxy class. I didn't get the message in full > > (my bad), but it was very brief and didn't say much more than "cProxy: > > broken pipe error". > > > > On investigating, my Windows server had rebooted (hahaha stupid MS patch > > got auto-installed) and ever since, my gambas proxy does not work > > anymore on the local machine. > > > > I went back through eight known good revisions of the code (I save > > working revisions as I go, just in case something like this happens due > > to an error on my part) but not a single one of them works at all. > > Therefore I know it's not my code that is the problem. > > > > I put some debugs into the latest code and this is what I get: > > > > 1. cProxy.StartProxyServer.42: StartProxyServer > > 2. cProxy.ProxyServer_Connection.53: ProxyServer_Connection > > 3. cProxy.Socket_Ready.124: Socket_Ready > > 4. cProxy.KillProxy.176: KillProxy > > > > At 1, the proxy is started and is listening. > > > > At 2, a connection is received at the proxy from a client application, > > in this case Pan or SeaMonkey. > > > > At 3, the socket is established and ready to talk. > > > > Between 3 and 4, several different clients (Pan and Seamonkey) exhibit > > the same symptoms, they behave as if there is no communication on the > > socket. Pan resets the connection and keeps trying. Seamonkey just waits > > and waits. > > > > At 4, the proxy has detected that the client connection has gone away so > > it kills the remote connection and starts listening for more incoming > > client connections, which is what the KillProxy procedure is suppsoed to > > do. > > > > I tried pointing the clients to localhost and 127.0.0.1, with different > > port values, all above 5000. In desperation I tried 119 on the > > localhost. Still no change. I rebooted twice. My Ubuntu has not been > > updated since last week. > > > > Finally I tried the socket example that comes with gambas. It too fails > > to connect with itself. It says "Host found. Connecting...", then some > > 10 or 15 seconds later, it says "Timeout trying to stablish [sic] > > connection". > > > > My gambas appears to be b0rked. Perhaps the solution is to uninstall > > gambas and recompile it, but I'd prefer to find out why it blew up the > > way it did. > > > > Anyone care to try and shed some light on this weird issue? Could a > > crashed pipe cause a compiled gambas application to scribble all over > > itself and damage the socket component in the same deal? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. 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