Appendix R. Finding help when you’re stuck

This appendix contains basic troubleshooting tips as well as links to external resources. The first section contains tips and tricks for when you have a problem starting or running an application. The second section contains links to external resources that can provide additional help.

R.1 Small annoyances here and there

This section lists small annoyances that you may encounter while developing with Spark.

R.1.1 Service sparkDriver failed after 16 retries . . .

While trying to run Spark, you get a connection error at startup: Can’t assign requested address: Service ‘sparkDriver’ failed after 16 retries (on a random free port)! Consider explicitly setting the appropriate binding address for the service ...

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