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

The first thing to check is probably /etc/hosts. Make sure that you have the following entry:

127.0.0.1      localhost

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If the above does not work, then the following should do the trick:

 sudo hostname -s 127.0.0.1