Starting Maxima Timed Out



Vadim V. Zhytnikov ?????:
>p e z writes:
>
>>Maxima 5.9.0 installed into
>>either
>>MS Win NT4W SP6a 128
>>or
>>MS Win WXPP SP1a,
>>on which
>>REACHOUT 8.43
>>has been already installed,
>>after the dialog:
>><- Starting Maxima Timed Out. Wait longer?
>>-> No
>>fails to start,
>>with the error message:
>><- Error Staring Maxima. Starting Maxima Timed Out.
>>
>
>Unfortunately you hit the problem which bogged
>Maxima 5.9.0 Windows port for quite long time.
>It appeared that the problem was resolved
>but as far as I can see it is back once again.
>And sometimes in some strange fashion. In particular
>Maxima worked fine on my Win XP and suddenly
>out of the blue it stopped to work with precisely
>the same symptoms - xmaxima.exe is unable to
>start maxima process.  Right now I'm trying to find out
>what change in the system triggered the problem.
>
>
>
>Hi!

>Finally I've found the reason of sudden Maxima problem
>on my Window XP box.  It was solely due to AtGuard
>firewall blocking sock service. Removing this firewall
>rule immediately restored Maxima functionality.
>Do you have any firewall on your Windows machines?
>
>
>--
>      Vadim V. Zhytnikov
>
>       <vvzhy@mail.ru>
>      <vvzhy@netorn.ru>

Thank you very much for your interest!

No I have not,
but meanwhile,
after a couple of days of continual and tedious "trial and errors",
finally I found that
I have to disable,
by renaming,
the source of trouble
ROUstNT.dll of the Reachout 8.43
to make Maxima starting up again
in both of the systems.

Sincerely,

p e z

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