I want to start the server, but I get the error:

Application Server was not connected before run configuration stop, reason: Unable to ping server at localhost:1099. And in console: /home/devnull/Software/idea-IU-162.2228.15/plugins/apache-tomcat-8.0.38/bin/catalina.sh run Using CATALINA_BASE: /home/devnull/.IntelliJIdea2016.2/system/tomcat/Unnamed_lovelystickers Using CATALINA_HOME: /home/devnull/Software/idea-IU-162.2228.15/plugins/apache-tomcat-8.0.38 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/devnull/Software/idea-IU-162.2228.15/plugins/apache-tomcat-8.0.38/temp Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64 Using CLASSPATH: /home/devnull/Software/idea-IU-162.2228.15/plugins/apache-tomcat-8.0.38/bin/bootstrap.jar:/home/devnull/Software/idea-IU-162.2228.15/plugins/apache-tomcat-8.0.38/bin/tomcat-juli.jar Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit. -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/home/devnull/Software/idea-IU-162.2228.15/plugins/apache-tomcat-8.0.38/endorsed is not supported. Endorsed standards and standalone APIs in modular form will be supported via the concept of upgradeable modules. Disconnected from server

Ubuntu linux 16.04 / intellij idea

  • reason: Unable to ping server at localhost:1099 probably this is the case. - αλεχολυτ
  • I tried different ports - it does not help. - Alex Ulianov

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A rather stupid mistake, it turns out that tomkat is not really friendly with jdk from the standard repository. I downloaded jdk from oracle.com and connected to intellij, it all worked :)