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LSF daemon fails to start up with error "Address already in use"

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Problem

LSF daemon fails to start up with error "Address already in use"

Symptom

LSF daemon, LIM/RES/MBATCHD/SBATCHD, fails to startup. Some error messages like following are logged in the daemon log file:
Jul 15 16:37:01 2014 24117304 3 9.1.1 init_ServSock: chanServSocketExt_() failed. A socket operation has failed: Address already in use.
Jul 15 16:37:01 2014 24117304 3 9.1.1 Server(or Management) daemon on host <hostname> dying; fatal error - see above messages for reason                                                                        

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Modified date:
22 June 2026

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