Unable to open debugger port in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

I have a problem that I can not set up my application in debug mode with IntelliJ IDE, but run mode is OK.

My OS is Windows 7, IDE is IntelliJ IDEA, web container is Tomcat 6. I have tried for a long time, changed the HTTP port and the JMX port, but it did not work.

When I set up the app in debug mode with IntelliJ, it failed and the event log is:

16:05:35 Error running tomcat: Unable to open debugger port : java.net.BindException "Address already in use: JVM_Bind".

Answer 1

This works for me consistently (it happens to me from time to time, when I do things such a restart tomcat when I am running the integration tests, for example)

1) Find the process that has the port 1099 open

sudo netstat -anp | grep tcp | grep 1099
cp6       0      0 :::1099                 :::*                    LISTEN      9857/java

2) kill it

kill 9857

3) Start Tomcat.

Answer 2

Probably you get the same error message if the standalone.xml in your standalone/configuration folder cannot be found. At least I have the same error when using a WildFly 14.0.1:

Answer 3

While debug I got this issue: It worked with

1. tried changing my Tomcat http port 8082 to 8083(In debug configurations on IntelliJ and in Tomcat->conf->server.xml also)
2. tried changing JMX port from 1099 to 1009.
3. tried changing debug port in Startup/Connection in debug configurations
4. killed all java processes in TaskManager->Processes.

Answer 4

All the other solutions unfortunately did not work. This is what worked for me . I simply changed the debugger port to some other port number.

Intelij-> preferences->Build, execution, deployment ->Debugger-> Built in server->port(change value )

Answer 5

It happens occasionally that when I restart my computer, everything is OK. Perhaps there is a port conflict.

Restart the computer works because instances of Java or Tomcat are killed during the restart. You can also consider killing the specific processes from Task Manager

This also happens if there is an issue in the context.xml file. In my case, I had accidentally changed the context value.

Answer 6

In Server tab of Tomcat configuration in IntelliJ, change JMX port to another number.