[distcc] problem with the cygwin client

[Martin Pool]

On the face of it, it almost looks like a network problem, as the
client thinks it has sent all the data and the server has not received
it.  Is there anything unusual about the network, e.g. a firewall
somewhere?

Can you provide the lines from the output of "netstat" relating to
port 4200 on both ends?  (Sorry, I forget whether windows has netstat
or what options it takes.)

What would be really nice would be a tcpdump of the traffic, but that
may not be easy if you only have Windows machines.

If you're comfortable with gdb, perhaps you could run distccd with
--no-fork, set a breakpoint somewhere in serve.c, and try to watch
what happens as the request comes in.  See if it really does just
block waiting for network input or if something else comes in.

Also, try to think of what is different about that machine compared to
others that work properly.

Thanks for reporting it so clearly.

Regards,
-- 
Martin 

Linux: The world's best text-adventure game.