Reputation:
I am trying to run floodlight and but for some reason it is not starting and giving me socket error. As I am new to it please help me with this problem.
09:14:16.212 INFO [n.f.j.JythonServer:debugserver-main] Starting DebugServer on :6655
Exception in thread "debugserver-main" Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "__pyclasspath__/debugserver.py", line 69, in run_server
File "/home/tashfeen/floodlight/target/floodlight.jar/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 331, in __init__
File "/home/tashfeen/floodlight/target/floodlight.jar/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 350, in server_activate
File "<string>", line 1, in listen
File "/home/tashfeen/floodlight/target/floodlight.jar/Lib/socket.py", line 934, in listen
socket.error: (98, 'Address already in use')
Upvotes: 1
Views: 503
Reputation: 31653
socket.error: (98, 'Address already in use')
means that the port that you try to bind your socket to is already in use.
You can you netstat tool to find which process is using which port and than try to kill it, or you should use different port number.
Upvotes: 1