{"id":28,"date":"2012-04-27T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.srivittal.com\/wp\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:12:45","slug":"dsccsetup-nothing-happens-or-failed-to-find-a-free-port-number-message-comes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srivittal.com\/wp\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"dsccsetup nothing happens or &#8220;Failed to find a free port number !&#8221; message comes up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I had installed the Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition on my RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.2 VM using the Zip distribution into \/opt\/dsee7<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/>Although the network adapters were configured and I was logged in as root, on issuing the following command, nothing happened<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">#\/opt\/dsee7\/bin\/dsccsetup ads-create<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">after what seemed ages, I got the message saying<br \/><span style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">Failed to find a free port number !<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">Searching through the forums I finally found the answer to the problem in this thread<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.oracle.com\/forums\/thread.jspa?threadID=2227812\">https:\/\/forums.oracle.com\/forums\/thread.jspa?threadID=2227812<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;\">Edit your \/etc\/hosts file and remove all the unwanted junk it puts there for IPV6 and especially with the same host name allocated for both 127.0.0.1 and any other static IP address.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;\">Run the command again and voila! 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