Tomcat startup fails due to 'java.net.SocketException Invalid argument' on Mac OS X

Question

We have an application that runs on Tomcat 6 (6.0.35.0 to be precise), and most of our engineers on Mac OS are having problems starting Tomcat due to the socketAccept call i

Answer 1

I've been battling with this problem in another context. Solution(s) combined from different sources look like next:

• Update /etc/hosts with next overrides:
  • ::1 EWD-MacBook-Pro.local
  • 127.0.0.1 EWD-MacBook-Pro.local localhost

(EWD-MacBook-Pro.local is my machine name)

and

• Set system properties:
  • java.net.preferIPv4Stack => true
  • java.net.preferIPv6Addresses => false

Good luck!