why?? {error, enotsock}

[Matthias Lang]

Ki-Youn Sung writes:
 > Hello.
 > 
 > My System is WindowsXP SP2.
 > 
 > Recently, I installed version R10B-6, and runned "erl -sname name".
 > but I don't run erl, erl program error is below,
 > 
 > {error_logger,{{2005,7,7},{15,47,2}},'Protocol: ~p: register/listen error: ~p~n'
 > ,[inet_tcp,enotsock]}

[...]

 > and, tried again this,
 > 
 > erl> gen_tcp:listen(0, [])
 > erl> {error, enotsock}

 > Do you know Why.??

It looks like you already found the previous time this was discussed:

  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/8410%3Cbr

I don't think anyone came up with a satisfactory answer then, beyond
the usual Microsoft troubleshooting procedure, i.e.

  - randomly install and uninstall various service packs, hoping to
    find the magic one which only breaks features you don't need

  - re-install windows

There must be a better way.

Matthias