junit socket error

[MileHighCelt]

I am using JUnit 3.8.1 (that came with Eclipse 3.1) to run some tests.
Yesterday everything was fine, but this morning after rebooting my
windows box, none of my tests will run. When I click the test class
and select "run as junit test" it takes 10-15 seconds before throwing
an exception such as:

Could not connect to: : 2248
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:452)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:402)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:309)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:124)
at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.connect(RemoteTestRunner.java:754)
at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:336)
at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

It is interesting that the port noted at the beginning of this message
increments after each attempt (it was originally 1989 when I noticed
it). Anyone know why this might suddenly be happening. I am not
trying to run any remote applications, so I don't know why junit is
trying to open sockets to various ports.

Thanks for your help.

[Roedy Green]

On 14 Sep 2005 09:22:19 -0700, "MileHighCelt" <humbl...@yahoo.com>
wrote or quoted :

>It is interesting that the port noted at the beginning of this message
>increments after each attempt (it was originally 1989 when I noticed
>it). Anyone know why this might suddenly be happening. I am not
>trying to run any remote applications, so I don't know why junit is
>trying to open sockets to various ports.

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[Oliver Wong]

"MileHighCelt" <humbl...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1126714939.7...@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

I've encountered this error too, and unfortunatelly I really cannot
remember what I did to fix it.

However, it's my understanding that the JUnit uses sockets to connect to
itself so that the GUI component (i.e. the progress bar that shows up in
Eclipse) can communicate with the backend (the code that actually runs all
the tests). So this has nothing to do with whether or not YOUR code uses
sockets.

Did you try rebooting the computer since the error started happening?

- Oliver