To enable JGroups on ubuntu system


While you are using jgroups on ubuntu you might get this exception

INFO: JGroups version: 2.6.16.GA
org.jgroups.ChannelException: failed to start protocol stack
	at org.jgroups.JChannel.startStack(JChannel.java:1617)
	at org.jgroups.JChannel.connect(JChannel.java:366)
	at org.jgroups.demos.Draw.go(Draw.java:174)
	at org.jgroups.demos.Draw.main(Draw.java:144)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: problem creating sockets (bind_addr=shekhar/127.0.1.1, mcast_addr=228.10.10.10:45588)
	at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.start(UDP.java:389)
	at org.jgroups.stack.Configurator.startProtocolStack(Configurator.java:129)
	at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.startStack(ProtocolStack.java:402)
	at org.jgroups.JChannel.startStack(JChannel.java:1614)
	... 3 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: bad argument for IP_MULTICAST_IF: address not bound to any interface
	at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.socketSetOption(Native Method)
	at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.setOption(PlainDatagramSocketImpl.java:309)
	at java.net.MulticastSocket.setInterface(MulticastSocket.java:424)
	at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.createSockets(UDP.java:527)
	at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.start(UDP.java:385)

To solve this you need to disable ipv6 on ubuntu. To do that do the following

java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -classpath /home/shekhar/JB431/opt/jboss-soa-p-5/jboss-as/lib/concurrent.jar:/home/shekhar/JB431/opt/jboss-soa-p-5/jboss-as/common/lib/commons-logging.jar:/home/shekhar/JB431/opt/jboss-soa-p-5/jboss-as/server/all/lib/jgroups.jar org.jgroups.demos.Draw

One thought on “To enable JGroups on ubuntu system”

  1. Nice one, this one creeped on me out of no where (wonder why it started all of a sudden) and you had it spot on.

    @newbies
    Only thing needed is really the preferIPv4Stack property

    -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true instead of all the arguments (i.e classpath)

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