I am running a ganglia gmond process on server and its giving an error below

tcp_accept_channel bind=NULL port=8649
Unable to create tcp_accept_channel. Exiting.

Tracing the process using strace command shows the output below. I fail to read the out please assist

bind(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(8649), sin_addr=inet_addr("239.2.11.71")}, 16) = 0
socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 0) = 5
bind(5, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, 12) = 0
getsockname(5, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=12936, groups=00000000}, [12]) = 0
sendto(5, "\24\0\0\0\26\0\1\3@\32\267P\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 20, 0, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, 12) = 20
recvmsg(5, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"<\0\0\0\24\0\2\0@\32\267P\2102\0\0\2\10\200\376\1\0\0\0\10\0\1\0\177\0\0\1"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 196
recvmsg(5, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"@\0\0\0\24\0\2\0@\32\267P\2102\0\0\n\200\200\376\1\0\0\0\24\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 192
recvmsg(5, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\24\0\0\0\3\0\2\0@\32\267P\2102\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\24\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 20
close(5) = 0
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFADDR, {ifr_name="eth0", ifr_addr={AF_INET, inet_addr("172.17.200.23")}}) = 0
setsockopt(4, SOL_IP, IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, "\357\2\vG\254\21\310\27", 8) = 0
epoll_ctl(3, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 4, {EPOLLIN, {u32=165444192, u64=165444192}}) = 0
write(2, "tcp_accept_channel bind=NULL por"..., 38tcp_accept_channel bind=NULL port=8649) = 38
write(2, "\n", 1
) = 1
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 5
setsockopt(5, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
bind(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(8649), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = -1 EADDRINUSE (Address already in use)
close(5) = 0
write(2, "Unable to create tcp_accept_chan"..., 47Unable to create tcp_accept_channel. Exiting.

Thank you

duplicate of http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ut-4175439265/

I am sorry but thats not a tangible answer that can help

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