Are you running two instances of Eclipse or did you launch the
standalone version of DDMS?

When you have that error, can you open a terminal and run "netstat"?
It will list the ports currently in use.

R/

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Amal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have installed Eclipse 3.4 on my Ubuntu Linux 8.04 system. I create
> a simple hello android project, but this is what I see when I open
> eclipse-
>
> "Could not open Selected VM debug port (8700). Make sure you do not
> have another instance of DDMS or of the eclipse plugin running. If
> it's being used by something else, choose a new port number in the
> preferences."
>
> I did telnet localhost 8700 and since it connected I figured out
> something is using port 8700.
>
> I went to Windows>Preferences>Android>DDMS and changed the ADB
> Debugger base port to 8600. But even then its not working.
>
> I am a beginner and don't know how to resolve this port issue. Does
> anybody have any suggestions/pointers? Am I missing something?
>
> >
>

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