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Bug 183042

Summary: Debugger fails to start; message is "Cannot find a free socket for the debugger"
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Joe Veazey <jveazey>
Component: DebugAssignee: JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Joe Veazey CLA 2007-04-18 15:41:10 EDT 
Unable to start the debugger. It fails with message "Cannot find a free socket for the debugger".

I am running Eclipse 3.3m6_0327;

aka Version: 3.3.0.v20070327-0800-7n7eEAWEdDfeSYI-BAVKUR;
aka Build id: I20070327-0800
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2007-04-18 22:23:15 EDT 
Do you have a firewall that might not be allowing the debugger to use a socket? What VM is Eclipse running on? What VM are you trying to debug a program on?
Comment 2 Darin Wright CLA 2007-04-23 09:59:44 EDT 
Marking as works for me without more information.
Comment 3 Joe Veazey CLA 2007-04-23 10:26:02 EDT 
After a reboot of Windows, this works. However, the problem will re-occur after several days w/o a Win reboot. I assume something in windows is eating my sockets.

Let's mark this as not an Eclipse problem.