diff -urN xtrans-1.0.1.orig/Xtranssock.c xtrans-1.0.1/Xtranssock.c
--- xtrans-1.0.1.orig/Xtranssock.c	2006-06-16 00:53:55.000000000 +0200
+++ xtrans-1.0.1/Xtranssock.c	2006-09-12 19:14:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -2041,8 +2041,13 @@
 	    errno = olderrno;
 	    
 	    /*
-	     * If the error was ENOENT, the server may be starting up
-	     * and we should try again.
+	     * If the error was ENOENT, the server may be starting up; we used
+	     * to suggest to try again in this case with
+	     * TRANS_TRY_CONNECT_AGAIN, but this introduced problems for
+	     * processes still referencing stale sockets in their environment.
+	     * Hence, we now return a hard error, TRANS_CONNECT_FAILED, and it
+	     * is suggested that higher level stacks handle retries on their
+	     * level when they face a slow starting server.
 	     *
 	     * If the error was EWOULDBLOCK or EINPROGRESS then the socket
 	     * was non-blocking and we should poll using select
@@ -2051,7 +2056,9 @@
 	     * should try again.
 	     */
 
-	    if (olderrno == ENOENT || olderrno == EINTR)
+	    if (olderrno == ENOENT)
+		return TRANS_CONNECT_FAILED;
+	    else if (olderrno == EINTR)
 		return TRANS_TRY_CONNECT_AGAIN;
 	    else if (olderrno == EWOULDBLOCK || olderrno == EINPROGRESS)
 		return TRANS_IN_PROGRESS;