> Hi,
> I've installed PostgreSQL 8.1-beta2 as a service on my
> Windows-XP box.
> It runs fine but I get repeated messages like this in the log:
>
> 2005-09-29 00:41:09 FATAL: could not duplicate socket
> 1880 for use in backend: error code 10038
>
> and for each message printed, a new postgres process is
> created. To make things worse, those processes do not die
> when I stop the service.
>
> I use sysinternals tcpview to monitor my sockets. I know that
> no other process is using 1880. Each started postgres process
> will occupy two, seemingly random ports that apparently form
> a loop somehow. This is a typical entry:
>
> <non-existent>:3136 TCP 127.0.0.1:1554
> 127.0.0.1:1555 ESTABLISHED
> <non-existent>:3136 TCP 127.0.0.1:1555
> 127.0.0.1:1554 ESTABLISHED
>
> The weird thing is that there is no process with pid 3136
> (hence the name <non-existent>). There is a postgres process
> with another pid in my process listing. If I kill that, the
> <non-existstent> entries go away.
>
> Looks like pid 3136 is talking to itself. A pipe() followed
> by failure to start the new process perhaps?
Do you by any chance run any antivirus or firewall software? If so, can
you try removing it (note! actual uninstall, not just disabling it!)
//Magnus