Voyager Tomcat fails to restart: could not find a free port in the range 7009...7009

Symptoms

• Voyager version is 9.0.0-9.2.0
• Attempting to restart voyager using tsvrctl restartfails to start tomcat
• catalina.out displays the following errors:

SEVERE|wrapper|yajsw|16-01-05 17:04:33|could not find a free port in the range 7009...7009
INFO|wrapper|yajsw|16-01-05 17:04:33|could not start controller -> abort
INFO|wrapper|yajsw|16-01-05 17:04:33|Shutting down Wrapper

Defect Status

This issue has been resolved in Voyager 9.2.1. A fix is available for Voyager 9.0.0-9.2.0

Replication Steps

Run /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/tsvrctl restart or /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/tsvrctl stop/startin quick succession

Workaround & Fix

To temporarily workaround this issue:

1. Run: /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/tsvrctl stop

2. Wait 30 seconds

3. Run: /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/tsvrctl start

4. Verify that the server is starting up: tail -f /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/logs/catalina.out

5. Repeat as necessary increasing the wait time by 10 seconds between stop and start commands.

To permanently fix this issue in version 9.0.0-9.2.0:

1. Open /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/wrapper/conf/voyager.conf.tml

2. Locate the following lines and comment them out using '#':

#wrapper.port=__WRAPPER_PORT__
#wrapper.port.min=__WRAPPER_PORT__
#wrapper.port.max=__WRAPPER_PORT__​​​​​​

3. Restart Tomcat 

• Article last edited: 31-May-2017