So amending the 127.0.0.1 line to "127.0.0.1 <hostname> <FQDN>"in /etc/hosts does allow Jenkins to start. If I don't include the FQDN, then I get the below in the log, which is troubling.
Oct 30, 2015 3:10:29 PM javax.jmdns.impl.constants.DNSRecordClass classForIndex WARNING: Could not find record class for index: -1 Oct 30, 2015 3:10:29 PM javax.jmdns.impl.DNSIncoming readAnswer SEVERE: Could not find record class. domain: ff4d45a8-2da7-4325-8ce4-6a788f6078a7-machine-.6-c-ubuntu-oddbloke-internal^Elocal^@^@^A^A^@^@^N^P^@^D <CC><80>^F. type: TYPE_IGNORE index 0 dns[response,10.240.0.6:5353, length=113, id=0x0, flags=0x8400:r:aa] 0: 0000840000000001 000000004f6a756a 752d666634643435 61382d326461372d ........ ....Ojuj u-ff4d45 a8-2da7- 20: 343332352d386365 342d366137383866 3630373861372d6d 616368696e652d31 4325-8ce 4-6a788f 6078a7-m achine-1 40: 362d632d7562756e 74752d6f6464626c 6f6b652d696e7465 726e616c056c6f63 6-c-ubun tu-oddbl oke-inte rnal.loc 60: 616c000001800100 000e1000040af000 06 al...... ........ . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-7 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510445 Title: OpenJDK segfaults when trying to get a fully-qualified hostname longer than 65 characters Status in openjdk-7 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: You can see it happening twice in the jenkins.log at http://paste.ubuntu.com/12978388/ I believe this is http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7089443 upstream. I ran in to this problem when trying to run a Java application (Jenkins) in Juju on GCE because, due to the host naming conventions in the Juju GCE provider, the fully-qualified hostname is guaranteed to be over the limit. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u79-2.5.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.19.0-28.30~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt5 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-28-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.16 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 27 09:44:01 2015 SourcePackage: openjdk-7 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/1510445/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

