This is driving me nuts too. I were successfully run it on 1 Windows 2012 server, using config file with -hubConfig my-hub.json
Unfortunately, I need to move it to another server and when start it from command line with command : java.exe -jar e:\selenium\jar\selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar -role hub -hubConfig my-hub.json and got same error messsage, retried several times but not work
Then tried with command : java.exe -jar e:\selenium\jar\selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar -role hub -port 4444
It's working.
I did netstat to check and pretty sure I had no process occupying port 4444
Log doesn't say anything can get to a clue.
Please let me know if you had any clue to figure it out what's wrong here
Thanks and regards,
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