fwd: jdk-1.6.0.3p4_12 Problem (Socket Thing)

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:05:04PM +0100, Wilhelm Greiner wrote:

[...]
> i have a Problem with the Port "jdk-1.6.0.3p4_12" on FreeBSD
> "8.0-RELEASE #0".
> 
> An Application dies with the Error "java.net.BindException: Can't assign
> requested address".
> 
> In the lack of compatibility i cant use diablo JRE or Open Java Runtime
> (the gpled Thing).
> 
> On my Test Box i disabled ipv6 in rc.conf, also i used the Java
> Parameter "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true".
> 
> Also i read about problems with the loopback interface, the command
> "ifconfig lo0" says:
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> 
> 
> Think the settings should be ok, can anyone help please to find the problem?

All this means is that the application is trying set up a listener on a
tcp or udp port that is being used by some other process.

Check you app's configuration again.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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