Why is the automation-controller-web container in a containerized verison of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform reporting "bind(): Address already in use [core/socket.c line 769]"?
Issue
- The automation-controller-web pod is continuously restarting
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The automation-controller-web pod's logs contains the following error messages
probably another instance of uWSGI is running on the same address (127.0.0.1:8050). bind(): Address already in use [core/socket.c line 769] 2025-11-13 14:59:48,362 WARN exited: uwsgi (exit status 1; not expected) 2025-11-13 14:59:48,362 WARN exited: uwsgi (exit status 1; not expected)uwsgi_master_fifo()/mkfifo(): Permission denied [core/fifo.c line 112] -
The containerized installation fails at
TASK [ansible.containerized_installer.automationgateway : Merge organization]with the below error:INFO ansible_base.lib.redis.client Removing setting cluster_error_retry_attempts from connection settings because its invalid for standalone mode\n2025-12-03 07:33:24,603 INFO ansible_base.resources_api.rest_client Making get request to https://aap.example.com:443/api/controller/v2/service-index/metadata/.\nCommandError: Bad API request: 503 Server Error: Service Unavailable for url: https://aap.example.com:443/api/controller/v2/service-index/metadata/\n"
Environment
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 (containerized install)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 - 9.7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1
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