Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

Protocol wrong type for socket

Cause

This message indicates either an application programming error, or badly configured protocols.

Action

Make sure that the /etc/protocols file corresponds number-for-number with the NIS protocols(4) map. If it does, ask the vendor or author of the application for an update.

Technical Notes

A protocol was specified that does not support the semantics of the socket type requested. This protocol amounts to a request for an unsupported type of socket. Look at the source code that made this socket request and check that it requested one of the types specified in /usr/include/sys/socket.h.

The symbolic name for this error is EPROTOTYPE, errno=98.