error when trying to connect to an external application via the Socket - attach option when using jdb in jdee

[Philip Varghese]

Hi 

 

Could anyone throw some light on why I get this error when trying to
trying to connect to an external application via the Socket - attach
option when using jdb in jdee.

 

c:/Main/build-tools/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/jdb.exe -attach localhost:3999

 

java.io.IOException: shmemBase_attach failed, error code = -1

            at com.sun.tools.jdi.SharedMemoryTransport.attach0(Native
Method)

            at
com.sun.tools.jdi.SharedMemoryTransport.attach(SharedMemoryTransport.jav
a:43)

            at
com.sun.tools.jdi.SharedMemoryAttachingConnector.attach(SharedMemoryAtta
chingConnector.java:43)

            at
com.sun.tools.example.debug.tty.VMConnection.attachTarget(VMConnection.j
ava:346)

            at
com.sun.tools.example.debug.tty.VMConnection.open(VMConnection.java:168)

            at com.sun.tools.example.debug.tty.Env.init(Env.java:63)

            at com.sun.tools.example.debug.tty.TTY.main(TTY.java:829)

 

Fatal error:

Unable to attach to target VM.

Error accessing shared memory, rc = -1

 

Comint finished

 

 

 

Thanks 

Philip