BindException Can't assign requested address Service 'sparkDriver' failed after 16 retries

Developer from somewhere

Received this error:

java.net.BindException: Can't assign requested address: Service 'sparkDriver' failed after 16 retries

Luckily, I found this stackoverflow post, listing instructions:

  • run hostname
  • check if the output is present in /etc/hosts
  • assuming hostname returned potato, you should have in /etc/hosts a line like this:
127.0.0.1 potato
  • run the java code again, and it should pass