Maven Eclipse Debug "JDWP Transport dt_socket failed to initialize, TRANSPORT_INIT(510)"

To kill a process listening on a port:

This command should list processes listening on all ports:

netstat -ano

The -o option will display the process id.

If you're using a *nix system, you can refine a little further with:

netstat -ano | grep <badport> 

When you have the process id, you can terminate it with:

Windows:

• Open Task Manager, add the PID column with View > Select Columns > PID
• Find the process and right-click to kill it

Others:

kill <PID>

For Mac users:

Usually the problem is that another process keeps Maven debug port 5005 open. So I checked which process keeps this port open by executing:

lsof -i tcp:5005

The output was:

COMMAND  PID        USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
java    9089 my_user    7u  IPv4 0xe88ec542fd4cffc9      0t0  TCP *:avt-profile-2 (LISTEN)

And then I killed the process:

kill -9 9089

If you want these 2 process to be able to run together, you'll have to change the Maven debug port of at least one of them. See: http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/debugging.html.

Go to Debug configuration -> Remote Java Application -> Connect tab, check Allow termination of remote JVM.

Then, when you are going to restart the server/maven, go to Debug perspective and click the read / stop button.....