Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!t20g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: fred Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Occasional Java Comm PortInUseException Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 11 Message-ID: <52fe615c-e7d5-4c06-ba6c-7d91c84f49b2@t20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.103.116.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1314561443 14436 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2011 19:57:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:57:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t20g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.103.116.43; posting-account=MjLUdQoAAACEt1kTc3CRnD0cw2a2JXIv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7438 Hi All, I am seeing an occasional PortInUseException being thrown by some driver code that uses the Java serial library. When thrown the message displays that the port is in use by an unknown Windows application. The port is definitely not being used by any other application however. The problem occurs on about 1 out of every 3 reboots. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this? Thank you, Fred