Issue 6616 in selenium: "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.net.SocketException: Can't assign requested address"

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New issue 6616 by
saketgup...@gmail.com: "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:
java.net.SocketException: Can't assign requested address"
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=6616

Getting below error while starting selenium server.....
I have just downloaded "selenium-server-standalone-2.37.0.jar" file, and
running into terminal.

IM-413:~ saket$ java -jar
/Users/saket/Documents/Selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.37.0.jar
Nov 25, 2013 11:00:51 AM org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher main
INFO: Launching a standalone server
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher.main(GridLauncher.java:96)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:
java.net.SocketException: Can't assign requested address
Build info: version: '2.37.0', revision: 'a7c61cb', time: '2013-10-18
17:14:00'
System info: host: 'IM-413.local', ip: '10.1.0.229', os.name: 'Mac OS X',
os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.8.5', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
at
org.openqa.selenium.net.DefaultNetworkInterfaceProvider.<init>(DefaultNetworkInterfaceProvider.java:46)
at org.openqa.selenium.net.NetworkUtils.<init>(NetworkUtils.java:34)
at
org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer.<clinit>(SeleniumServer.java:205)
... 1 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Can't assign requested address
at java.net.NetworkInterface.getAll(Native Method)
at
java.net.NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(NetworkInterface.java:334)
at
org.openqa.selenium.net.DefaultNetworkInterfaceProvider.<init>(DefaultNetworkInterfaceProvider.java:44)
... 3 more

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Labels: Component-Grid

Comment #1 on issue 6616 by
barancev: "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:

java.net.SocketException: Can't assign requested address"
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=6616

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Status: Invalid

Comment #2 on issue 6616 by

barancev: "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:
java.net.SocketException: Can't assign requested address"

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=6616

This is network misconfiguration issue, Selenium can't get info about
network interfaces from Java using standard JDK
java.net.NetworkInterface.getAll method.