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Re: GlassFish requires DISPLAY to install on Linux server and I

From: Tom Mueller <tom.mueller_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:32:53 -0600

When GlassFish checks to see if a port is in use, it tries to bind to
the port as a client as well as a server. On some systems, we've seen
firewall software of some sort allow a client to bind to a port even
though there really isn't anything listening on that port. If that
happens you get this behavior.