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The "webcenter" Application is Failing to Start Due to Error: Address already in use (Doc ID 2831657.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 09, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle WebCenter Portal - Version 12.2.1.4.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

The "webcenter" application is failing to start.
The portal managed server output log file shows the following errors:

ERROR

<DATE-TIME> <Warning> <HTTP> <BEA-101162> <User defined listener com.plumtree.analytics.collector.StartupListener failed: com.plumtree.analytics.core.exception.AnalyticsRuntimeException: Cannot start due to error while registering OpenUsage PMB listener.
com.plumtree.analytics.core.exception.AnalyticsRuntimeException: Cannot start due to error while registering OpenUsage PMB listener
    at com.plumtree.analytics.collector.Collector.start(Collector.java:60)
    at com.plumtree.analytics.collector.StartupListener.contextInitialized(StartupListener.java:55)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager$FireContextListenerAction.run(EventsManager.java:719)
...
Caused By: java.net.BindException: Address already in use (Bind failed)
    at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.bind0(Native Method)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainDatagramSocketImpl.bind(AbstractPlainDatagramSocketImpl.java:99)
    at java.net.DatagramSocket.bind(DatagramSocket.java:392)
...
 
<DATE-TIME> <Error> <Deployer> <BEA-149231> <Unable to set the activation state to true for the application "webcenter".
weblogic.application.ModuleException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Response: '502: Bad Gateway' for url: 'http://<HOST>:<PORT>/soa-infra/services/default/...?WSDL'
    at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.activate(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:123)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.activate(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:114)
    at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$2.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:212)
...
Caused By: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Response: '502: Bad Gateway' for url: 'http://<HOST>:<PORT>/soa-infra/services/default/...?WSDL'
    at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:898)
    at weblogic.net.http.SOAPHttpURLConnection.getInputStream(SOAPHttpURLConnection.java:42)
    at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1092)
...

 

STEPS

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

  1. Start the portal managed server(s).
     
  2. Check the portal managed server .out file for the error.

Changes

 

Cause

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