android - Eclipse: Failed to initialize Monitor Thread: Unable to establish loopback connection

Question

I have Eclipse Indigo installed on Win7 64bit with the ADT plugin and Android SDK's installed.

An error occurs when I have my emulator open and I try to launch my test application:

Failed to initialize Monitor Thread: Unable to establish loopback connection

I have looked into this error and it most often appears to be a firewall issue but with the firewall turned off I still get the error. Would it have anything to do with me having another Eclipse based IDE installed (Aptana 3)?

Things I have tried so far:

• Turn firewall off
• changed ddms port to 8601
• checked localhost is set to 127.0.01

I'm running out of ideas so any help of suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

No need to disable IPV6. Just force Eclipse to use IPV4. Edit eclipse.ini and add the last line:

openFile
-vmargs
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true