Hi, I have not-100% reproducable issue with the latest Tomcat 8.5.32 (Java 8u172). It happens only time to time.
It's running in docker container under AWS ECS on a separate machine in ECS cluster. Brigde networking - so the Tomcat container gets it's own IP address. I have a number of Nio HTTP/1.1 connectors configured in Tomcat and upon container startup I can get such issue for _any_ of configured ports: 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,570 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"] 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,598 INFO [NioSelectorPool ] Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,609 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-49080"] 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,610 INFO [NioSelectorPool ] Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,611 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-50080"] 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,612 ERROR [StandardService ] Failed to initialize connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-50080]] org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize component [Connector[HTTP/1.1-50080]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:112) ~[catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:549) [catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:107) [catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:875) [catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:107) [catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:632) [catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:655) [catalina.jar:8.5.32] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:309) [bootstrap.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:492) [bootstrap.jar:8.5.32] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperStartStopApp.run(WrapperStartStopApp.java:400) [wrapper.jar:3.5.32] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_172] Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:995) ~[catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:107) ~[catalina.jar:8.5.32] ... 18 more Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74) ~[?:1.8.0_172] at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.bind(NioEndpoint.java:210) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:1086) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractJsseEndpoint.init(AbstractJsseEndpoint.java:268) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:581) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Protocol.init(AbstractHttp11Protocol.java:68) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:993) ~[catalina.jar:8.5.32] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:107) ~[catalina.jar:8.5.32] ... 18 more 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,618 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-61080"] 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,620 INFO [NioSelectorPool ] Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,620 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-63080"] 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,621 INFO [NioSelectorPool ] Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,622 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-60080"] 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,623 INFO [NioSelectorPool ] Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,623 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-62080"] 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,624 INFO [NioSelectorPool ] Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 09 Jul 2018 16:46:03,625 INFO [Http11NioProtocol ] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-59080"] There are no other processed on the host that use port 50080. The OS in docker container is: # cat /etc/os-release NAME="Alpine Linux" ID=alpine VERSION_ID=3.7.0 PRETTY_NAME="Alpine Linux v3.7" HOME_URL="http://alpinelinux.org" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.alpinelinux.org" with all available updates and with glibc 2.27-r0. Could you please suggest how to understand the reason? -- Regards, Sergey