Spark fails to start in local mode when disconnected [Possible bug in handling IPv6 in Spark??]

Question

The problem is the same as described here Error when starting spark-shell local on Mac

... but I have failed to find a solution. I also used to get the malformed URI err

Answer 1

OK, I seem to be able to get around it by passing configuration directly --conf spark.driver.host=localhost

So I run:

./bin/spark-shell --conf spark.driver.host=localhost

Still if there is a better solution, please let me know.

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[UPDATE]

Jacek Laskowski confirmed this is probably the only available solution for now.