Starting Groovy...requesting ports 28%
File mode specification error: (error "Error starting groovy: time-out waiting for port")

Emacs 24.3.1 with malabar-mode-20140903.1347 installed through the package manager.

Searching past issues suggested that the Groovy lib dir setting might be the problem, but that was set automatically on malabar-mode install; furthermore, malabar-mode was working on my system a few weeks ago. It now throws the error:

Error: Could not find or load main class org.grumblesmurf.malabar.GroovyServer
Process Malabar Groovy exited abnormally with code 1

From my init.el:

(setq malabar-groovy-lib-dir "/usr/share/groovy/lib")

Contents of that directory:

$ ls /usr/share/groovy/lib/
ant-1.9.3.jar           commons-logging-1.1.1.jar  groovy-docgenerator-2.3.6.jar  groovy-nio-2.3.6.jar        groovy-testng-2.3.6.jar  jcommander-1.35.jar        qdox-1.12.1.jar

ant-antlr-1.9.3.jar gpars-1.2.1.jar groovy-groovydoc-2.3.6.jar groovy-servlet-2.3.6.jar groovy-xml-2.3.6.jar jline-2.11.jar servlet-api-2.4.jar ant-junit-1.9.3.jar groovy-2.3.6.jar groovy-groovysh-2.3.6.jar groovy-sql-2.3.6.jar groovy.icns jsp-api-2.0.jar testng-6.8.8.jar ant-launcher-1.9.3.jar groovy-ant-2.3.6.jar groovy-jmx-2.3.6.jar groovy-swing-2.3.6.jar hamcrest-core-1.3.jar jsr166y-1.7.0.jar xmlpull-1.1.3.1.jar bsf-2.4.0.jar groovy-bsf-2.3.6.jar groovy-json-2.3.6.jar groovy-templates-2.3.6.jar ivy-2.3.0.jar junit-4.11.jar xstream-1.4.7.jar commons-cli-1.2.jar groovy-console-2.3.6.jar groovy-jsr223-2.3.6.jar groovy-test-2.3.6.jar jansi-1.11.jar multiverse-core-0.7.0.jar

GitHub issue: https://github.com/m0smith/malabar-mode/issues/129