TCPServer Error: Address already in use - bind(2)
RubyJekyllRuby Problem Overview
Jekyll was working fine for me few weeks back but now all of a sudden it gives me the following error:
TCPServer Error: Address already in use - bind(2)
INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=7300 port=4000
% lsof -i :4000
<fetches nothing>
Even though nothing is running on the port. Below are the details:
% jekyll --version
Jekyll 0.11.2
% where jekyll
/home/bhaarat/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/jekyll
/usr/bin/jekyll
% ruby --version
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [i686-linux]
% rvm --version
rvm 1.10.0
Here is the output
% jekyll --server
Configuration from /home/bhaarat/blog/omnipresent.github.com/_config.yml
Auto-regenerating enabled: /home/bhaarat/blog/omnipresent.github.com -> /home/bhaarat/blog/omnipresent.github.com/_site
[2012-04-21 13:46:40] regeneration: 38 files changed
[2012-04-21 13:46:40] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2012-04-21 13:46:40] INFO ruby 1.9.2 (2011-07-09) [i686-linux]
[2012-04-21 13:46:40] WARN TCPServer Error: Address already in use - bind(2)
[2012-04-21 13:46:40] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=7382 port=4000
I know the address isn't in use and jekyll is probably breaking for some other reason but throwing that error. What are my options? I've tried re-installing as well.
Ruby Solutions
Solution 1 - Ruby
Type this in your terminal to find out the PID of the process that's using the 3000 port:
$ lsof -wni tcp:3000
Then, use the number in the PID column to kill the process:
$ kill -9 PID
Solution 2 - Ruby
I was not qualified to post comment. So I added a new answer.
I encountered this problem on Mac OS X 10.10.3. And I had never installed/used Jekyll before. I was not able to start jekyll server with its default port number 4000. The reason was that the port was the same as what NoMachine used. With
$ sudo lsof -wni tcp:4000
Note: Running this command without sudo will have no output.
I saw this output:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
nxd 449 nx 3u IPv4 0x8d22************ 0t0 TCP *:terabase (LISTEN)
nxd 449 nx 4u IPv6 0x8d22************ 0t0 TCP *:terabase (LISTEN)
The port 4000 was occupied by nxd, which was the process started by NoMachine. And
$ sudo kill -9 449
would not work, because NoMachine's nxd process would keep restarting, with a new PID.
Therefore, I had to either:
-
Changed my jekyll server port in the site
_config.ymlto another spared one. I appended the line below to_config.ymland it worked.port: 3000 # change server port to 3000
or
- Changed NoMachine's default nxd port, or Uninstall NoMachine
Solution 3 - Ruby
Ctrl-Z doesn't terminate a program, but rather suspends it and sends it to the background. You can resume the program with the "fg" command. To actually terminate it, use Ctrl-C.
The actual error message seems to be bogus and can be ignored. I am getting the same error message "address in use" but jekyll works fine anyway at the expected port.
Solution 4 - Ruby
I have met this problem recently.
I tried out all the method mentioned above, and even restarted my computer, but still couldn't solve it!!! Then I removed the jekyll and installed a new version, it just worked.
gem uninstall jekyll & gem install jekyll (maybe you need super user priviledge).
If you really get annoyed with similar bugs, this sb method is worth a try...
Solution 5 - Ruby
Check that you don't have another terminal open where you are already running a server. If that is the case, do a CTRL-C to shutdown the server, and that will free the port/address.
Solution 6 - Ruby
First you need to find PID of the process that's using the 3000 port:
$ps -ef
Output Like this:
1003 4953 2614 0 08:51 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
1003 5634 1 0 08:56 pts/0 00:00:00 spring server | moviestore | started 2 hours ago
1003 5637 5634 0 08:56 ? 00:00:01 spring app | moviestore | started 2 hours ago | development mode
1003 6078 4953 0 09:03 pts/0 00:00:03 puma 3.6.0 (tcp://localhost:3000) [moviestore]
1003 6117 2614 0 09:03 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash
root 6520 2 0 09:57 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u8:2]
root 6936 1225 0 11:09 ? 00:00:00 [lightdm] <defunct>
1003 7084 1 0 11:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
1003 7475 1 0 11:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
root 8739 1225 1 11:29 tty8 00:00:11 /usr/bin/X :1 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:1 -nolisten tcp vt8 -novtswitch
root 8853 1225 0 11:29 ? 00:00:00 lightdm --session-child 13 22
1002 8943 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
1002 8954 8853 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session --session=ubuntu
1002 8992 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session --session=ubuntu
1002 8995 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session --session=ubuntu
1002 8996 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 //bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
1002 9007 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
1002 9015 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
1002 9018 8954 1 11:30 ? 00:00:07 compiz
1002 9021 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconf/gconfd-2
1002 9028 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
1002 9029 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:01 nautilus -n
1002 9030 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-fallback-mount-helper
1002 9031 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet
1002 9032 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:02 /opt/mTrac/mTrac
1002 9033 8954 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth-applet
1002 9045 9032 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /opt/mTrac/mTrac --type=zygote --no-sandbox
1002 9050 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
1002 9054 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
1002 9057 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
1002 9062 1 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
here you can see :
1003 6078 4953 0 09:03 pts/0 00:00:03 puma 3.6.0 (tcp://localhost:3000) [moviestore]
localhost:3000 have pid: 6078
kill that process by
$sudo kill 6078
then run
$rails s
Solution 7 - Ruby
we can user fuser command
fuser -k 3000/tcp
Solution 8 - Ruby
work around
in /_site run: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080