Unable to start Glassfish 3.1 even though port not occupied

Question

I\'m having trouble starting Glassfish 3.1 on a newly setup Debian \"Squeeze\" server. This is a testing server that has been setup and the Glassfish i

Answer 1

Check your /etc/hosts file if the current hostname translates to a valid IP address. I think something is misconfigured or simple the IP do not exists.

When I changed it back (in my situation) to the 127.0.0.1 address (of course it could be any other but working and attached IP address), the glassfish could be started properly again.