This pretty frequently happens when you bounce solr instances around. I usually
use
ps aux | grep solr
to find the pid to kill.
I can’t help you at all about why lsof isn’t working, that has nothing to do
with Solr.
Best,
Erick
> On Jun 5, 2019, at 5:23 AM, Mary Eji wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I’ve been using Solr for a while now. I’m having trouble using the software
> currently: I’m getting this error "Oops! Looks like port 8983 is already
> being used by another process. Please choose a different port”.
> I’m using Mac OS. When this happened sometimes ago in the Fall or so, I used
> lsof -n -i4TCP: 8983 to identify the PID, then, killed the PID number.
>
> But, since yesterday, I’ve been receiving this error whenever I used lsof -n
> -i4TCP: 8983
>
> lsof: unacceptable port specification in: -i 4TCP:
> lsof 4.89
> latest revision: ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/
> latest FAQ: ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/FAQ
> latest man page: ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/lsof_man
> usage: [-?abhlnNoOPRtUvV] [+|-c c] [+|-d s] [+D D] [+|-f[cgG]]
> [-F [f]] [-g [s]] [-i [i]] [+|-L [l]] [+|-M] [-o [o]] [-p s]
> [+|-r [t]] [-s [p:s]] [-S [t]] [-T [t]] [-u s] [+|-w] [-x [fl]] [--] [names]
> Use the ``-h'' option to get more help information.
>
>
> Kindly help with how to handle the error messages, especially this: r "Oops!
> Looks like port 8983 is already being used by another process. Please choose
> a different port”.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mary
