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Bug 240637

Summary:	Debugger requires on Internet Protocol version 4 for local host
Product:	debugger	Reporter:	eda
Component:	Java	Assignee:	Martin Entlicher <mentlicher>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description eda 2014-01-18 09:34:35 UTC

The NetBeans IDE attempts to connect to the debugger at the Internet Protocol version 4 local host address, 127.0.0.1 . If IP4 networking is not available for the loopback interface, it fails. This is observed where the loop back interface has an IP6 address but not IP4.
This problem happens with the Java Debugger. GDB works.

To test, on GNU/Linux, one can remove the IP4 address with the command
ip address delete 127.0.0.1/8 dev lo

This was tested on the main-golden, post 7.4 .