Unable to open display – saga continues

[mrizkin at tiac dot net (Misha Rizkin)]

I was unfortunate enough to discover another application that is not compatible with Xfree on Win9x, with all the standard symptoms of server listening, and telnet connecting, and xterm being unable to open display, and yadda-yadda-yadda, as reported multiple times on this board. 

I had a perfectly healthy installation until I downloaded a trialware of Rational Rose (just don't ask me why.) Apparently, it brings with it a Unix environment, seemingly dubbed NuTCRACER, that among other things, has an implementation of an X server. I wish I could provide more info than that, but this NuTCRACER thing is long since gone from my machine and there is no way it makes it back. Those who like to live dangerously are encouraged to investigate.

Unfortunately, the de-install is not clean, and my Xfree is still hosed. Among lasting effects, are two suspicious protocols (see the attachment below), as reported by system info tool. Where these protocols are coming from, I have no idea – nothing is found neither in registry, nor by grep’ing system files. Rebuilding the machine is not an option. 

If anyone investigates this matter, I would be extremely interested to know what delta this Nuts thing installs, and what cleanup could be done. 


[Protocol]

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Name	NuTCRACKER Unix domain sockets (STREAM)	
Connectionless Service	No	
Guarantees Delivery	Yes	
Guarantees Sequencing	Yes	
Maximum Address Size	106 bytes	
Maximum Message Size	0 bytes	
Message Oriented	No	
Minimum Address Size	3 bytes	
Pseudo Stream Oriented	No	
Supports Broadcasting	No	
Supports Connect Data	No	
Supports Disconnect Data	No	
Supports Encryption	No	
Supports Expedited Data	Yes	
Supports Graceful Closing	Yes	
Supports Guaranteed Bandwidth	No	
Supports Multicasting	No	
		
Name	NuTCRACKER Unix domain sockets (DGRAM)	
Connectionless Service	Yes	
Guarantees Delivery	No	
Guarantees Sequencing	No	
Maximum Address Size	106 bytes	
Maximum Message Size	0 bytes	
Message Oriented	Yes	
Minimum Address Size	3 bytes	
Pseudo Stream Oriented	No	
Supports Broadcasting	Yes	
Supports Connect Data	No	
Supports Disconnect Data	No	
Supports Encryption	No	
Supports Expedited Data	No	
Supports Graceful Closing	No	
Supports Guaranteed Bandwidth	No	
Supports Multicasting	No	
		
Name	MS.w95.spi.tcp	
Connectionless Service	No	
Guarantees Delivery	Yes	
Guarantees Sequencing	Yes	
Maximum Address Size	16 bytes	
Maximum Message Size	0 bytes	
Message Oriented	No	
Minimum Address Size	16 bytes	
Pseudo Stream Oriented	No	
Supports Broadcasting	No	
Supports Connect Data	No	
Supports Disconnect Data	No	
Supports Encryption	No	
Supports Expedited Data	Yes	
Supports Graceful Closing	Yes	
Supports Guaranteed Bandwidth	No	
Supports Multicasting	No	
	
Etc….

-MR