Infrastructure Software

I connect to my Solaris 10 Java Desktop System using a PC X-server via XDMCP and that works great. The problem is when I click Java Launch > Log Out - the process stalls for about four minutes before the "Are you sure you want to log out?" message appears. A Wireshark trace running on the PC and snoop running on the Solaris machine indicate TCP SYN packets on port 16001 trying to connect from the Solaris machine to the Windows machine. Since I have a firewall on the Windows the machine the SYNs never get an ACK or RESET and the SYNs get repeated until about four minutes have elapsed. I think port 16001 is Enlightenment Sound Daemon(ESD) and I guess that it and/or Gnome are not aware that someone logged in from a PC X-Server instead of a console.

I have sound turned off in Java Desktop System(the little speaker in the lower right has a red slash through it) but I'm still getting the TCP SYNs to the PC. I've also allowed port 16001 through the Windows firewall but since there isn't a service listening on 16001 it doesn't do any good. For the heck of it I installed an SSH server on the Windows machine and set it to listen on port 16001 and that makes ESD or whatever is initiating the port 16001 traffic happy and logout commences immediately.

I've looked on the Solaris box for ways to disable ESD and/or remove the packages but can't seem to find this information. It seems like it might be tightly integrated into the Java Desktop System. Does anyone have any ideas on how to remove ESD or prevent whatever is sending port 16001 from trying to connect back out?

Oh, and this problem doesn't happen with CDE.

Thanks for any insight.

Gary