`cider-jack-in' aborts with 'Protocol family unavailable'

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When I run cider-jack-in I get a SocketException with Protocol family unavailable as the exception message.

lein repl runs fine on the command line.

I've web-searched and found no matches containing both 'cider' and 'SocketException', which is always worrying. Nothing obvious came up in a search of the github project nor in the list of possibly-related questions presented here by StackOverflow as I'm writing this.

I get the same error whether I have a project file loaded or not.

My Emacs session tends to be extremely long-running (months) but I've checked and the problem still recurs identically after a restart.

Things I thought of that might be at play but I think I can discount:

  • AFAIK no hosts on the subnet (this host among them) have IPv6 configured on any interface.

  • This Emacs is running on the same host as a Squid proxy server, but (getenv "no_proxy") returns a comma-delimited string that includes both localhost and 127.0.0.0/16, so no connection to the proxy server should be requested as part of connecting to an nrepl server on the same host.

  • This host has a heavily customized /etc/hosts file, but no IPv6 address mappings are enabled.

In other words it should be a "pure" IPv4 host.

emacs-version: 24.5.1

cider-version: 0.15.1-snapshot

OS: Linux this-host 4.8.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.11-1 (2016-12-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Stack trace header:

error in process sentinel: nrepl-server-sentinel: Could not start nREPL server: Exception in thread "main" java.net.SocketException: Protocol family unavailable, compiling:(/tmp/form-init7765774181037314573.clj:1:73)

What's wrong?

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