"No such device" while Installing WebCenter Sites on Exalogic (Doc ID 1911270.1)

Last updated on MARCH 13, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

On installation, cs.war is not getting deployed successfully in the application server.

The app server log contains this error:
...
Caused By: net.sf.ehcache.CacheException: No such device
   at net.sf.ehcache.distribution.MulticastRMICacheManagerPeerProvider.init(MulticastRMICacheManagerPeerProvider.java:99)
   at net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.init(CacheManager.java:306)
   at net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.(CacheManager.java:234)

Using the built-in jGroups tester (<Note 1609419.1>) to confirm multicast status, you will see the following error which indicates that multicast is not supported:

java.io.IOException: Network is unreachable
  at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.send(Native Method)
  at java.net.DatagramSocket.send(DatagramSocket.java:676)
  at org.jgroups.tests.Probe.start(Probe.java:41)
  at org.jgroups.tests.Probe.main(Probe.java:156)
 

Cause

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