Eclipse DDMS error “Can't bind to local 8600 for debugger”

Question

I get the following error in Eclipse:

[timestamp - ddms] Can\'t bind to local 8600 for debugger

Why?

Answer 1

For people running Android Studio and Eclipse:

I know that answers are already saturated, but I'll just add that it appears that this error surfaces after installing Android Studio and returning to Eclipse to build and run your project.

Make sure you close all other instances of ADB that may be running (including Android Studio). Once you've done this if you are still having troubles try killing all ADB server processes and restarting. If you haven't setup a global variable, open terminal and navigate to the platform-tools folder of the Android SDK Eclipse is referencing, then run:

./adb kill-server
./adb start-server