# Problem launching ignition gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-launching-ignition-gateway/12258>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-launching-ignition-gateway/12258 "2016-10-19T11:54:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![joshi.pradnya06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@joshi.pradnya06](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joshi.pradnya06)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-launching-ignition-gateway/12258/1 "2016-10-19T11:54:49Z")

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Hello,

I have a problem launching ignition application.The ignition gateway server localhost:8088 is not able to launch on linux machine.  
I am using ignition 32-Bit v7.3.7 on 64-bit fedora-14 linux machine.  
Attached is the screenshot of the ignition status on command window.  
Please suggest.

Regards,  
Pradnya

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-launching-ignition-gateway/12258/2 "2016-10-19T14:02:56Z")

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I’m afraid we’ll need more information than that. Can you upload the wrapper.log file somewhere?

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**Author:** ![joshi.pradnya06](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@joshi.pradnya06](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/joshi.pradnya06)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-launching-ignition-gateway/12258/3 "2016-10-20T04:57:00Z")

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Please find attached wrapper.log file.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-launching-ignition-gateway/12258/4 "2016-10-20T13:25:44Z")

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It looks like you’ve either got some other software or a “ghost” instance of Ignition already running because something is using port 8088:

```auto
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | java.net.BindException: Address already in use<null>:8088
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint.init(JIoEndpoint.java:502)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.init(Http11Protocol.java:176)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1058)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded.start(Embedded.java:830)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at com.inductiveautomation.catapult.CatapultBase.startTomcat(CatapultBase.java:206)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at com.inductiveautomation.catapult.Catapult.main(Catapult.java:70)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp.run(WrapperSimpleApp.java:272)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2016/10/19 16:59:24 | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
```