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Issue

Mac spark-shell Error initializing SparkContext

Possible Causes

Solution

One possible solution is to simplfy restart Mac. Other solutions exists in the discussion on StackOverflow

Reference

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34601554/mac-spark-shell-error-initializing-sparkcontext ** https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44914144/error-sparkcontext-error-initializing-sparkcontext-java-net-bindexception-can/44916827