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Re: Glassfish won't start because port 4848 is in use, however nothing is listening on port 4848 . . .

From: Joe Di Pol <joe.dipol_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:09:12 -0800

One common cause of this is that the system can't resolve the system's
hostname. So you may want to make sure /etc/hosts looks good, and that
the system can resolve the system's hostname to an IP.


On 11/8/12 11:53 AM, Tom Mueller wrote:
> Note that GlassFish interprets a failure to bind to port 4848 as
> meaning that some other process is listening on it. It is possible
> that the bind failed for some other reason.
>
> Tom
>