Node Express EADDRINUSE Address already in use - Kill server

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I have a simple server running in node js using connect   var server   require  connect   createServer      actions    server listen 3000     In my code I have actual handlers  but thats the basic idea  The problem I keep getting is  EADDRINUSE  Address already in use   I receive this error when running my application again after it previously crashed or errors  Since I am not opening a new instance of terminal I close out the process with ctr   z   I am fairly certain all I have to do is close out the server or connection  I tried calling server close   in process on  exit         with no luck

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Node is running somewhere in memory and has that port locked down  On Windows  this problem will happen  like most Windows problems  be solved by hitting CTRL ALT DEL and or rebooting

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You may run into scenarios where even killing the thread or process won t actually terminate the app  this happens for me on Linux and Windows every once in a while   Sometimes you might already have an instance running that you didn t close   As a result of those kinds of circumstances  I prefer to add to my package json    scripts          stop-win    Taskkill  IM node exe  F        stop-linux    killall node       I can then call them using   npm run stop-win npm run stop-Linux   You can get fancier and make those BIN commands with an argument flag if you want  You can also add those as commands to be executed within a try-catch clause

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In windows users  open task manager and end task the nodejs exe file  It works fine

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I was facing the same problem  I just changed my port number from 8000 to 6000  as you have 3000 you try 5000 4000 7000 8000 etc

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You can also go the command line route   ps aux   grep node   to get the process ids   Then   kill -9 PID   Doing the -9 on kill sends a SIGKILL  instead of a SIGTERM   SIGTERM has been ignored by node for me sometimes

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In Linux try pkill nodejs    or  pkill node

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This means you have two node servers running on the same port  if one is running on port let say 3000 change the other one to another port lets say 3001 and everything will work well

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This command list the tasks related to the  node  and have each of them terminated   kill -9     ps -ae   grep  node    awk   print  1

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For Visual Studio Noobs like me   You may be running the process in other terminals   After closing the terminal in Visual Studio  the terminal just disappears   I manually created a new one thinking that the previous one was destroyed  In reality  every time I was clicking on New Terminal I was actually creating a new one on top of the previous ones    So I located the first terminal and    Voila  I was running the server there

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I was getting this error once and took many of the approaches here    My issues was that I had two app listen 3000   calls in the same app js script  The first app listen   succeeded where the second threw the error   Another useful command I came across that helped me debug was sudo fuser -k 3000 tcp which will kill any rogue processes you might have started  some processes may restart  e g  if run with forever js  but it was useful for me

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UI solution For Windows users  I found that the top answers did not work for me  they seemed to be commands for Mac or Linux users  I found a simple solution that didn t require any commands to remember  open Task Manager  ctrl shift esc   Look at background processes running  Find anything Node js and end the task   After I did this the issue went away for me  As stated in other answers it s background processes that are still running because an error was previously encountered and the regular exit clean up functions didn t get called  so one way to kill them is to find the process in Task Manager and kill it there  If you ran the process from a terminal powerShell you can usually use ctrl c to kill it

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bash  sudo netstat -ltnp   grep -w   3000   - tcp6    0      0    4000                  LISTEN      31157 node        bash  kill 31157

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ps aux   grep node kill -9  PID   provided by above command    Description       ps will give the process status  aux provide the list of a  all users processes  u  user own processes  x  all other processes not attached to terminal  pipe symbol    will pass the result of ps aux to manipulate further  grep will search the string provided node in our case  from the list provided by ps aux

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PowerShell users      Taskkill  IM node exe  F

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On Windows  I was getting the following error  EADDRINUSE  address already in use    8081  Followed these steps   Opened CMD as Admin Ran the folowing   command netstat -ano findstr  quot PID  8081 quot   got the following processes   killed it via   taskkill  pid 43144  f   On MAC you can do like this  raghavkhunger MacBook-Air     lsof -i tcp 8081 COMMAND   PID          USER   FD   TYPE            DEVICE SIZE OFF NODE NAME node    23722 username   24u  IPv6 0xeed16d7ccfdd347      0t0  TCP   sunproxyadmin  LISTEN  username MacBook-Air     kill -9 23722

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Here is a one liner  replace 3000 with a port or a config variable    kill   lsof -t -i 3000

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Kill only node process that uses given PORT  As others mentioned  in bash you could use kill   lsof -t -i PORT   Here is a Windows solution  there s a way     netstat -bona   findstr   0 PORT  0 0 0 0 0  LISTENING    for  f  tokens 5   t in   more   do taskkill  PID  t  F  You need an elevated terminal for that  in VSCode you ll need to open itself with elevation  as integrated terminal cannot be elevated    PS  if findstr not available  you can simply use find and replace      for spaces  non regex mode

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For windows open Task Manager and find node exe processes  Kill all of them with End Task

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I wonder  why nobody yet mentioned this possibility     If you provide   listen port  with string  intentionally or not   which wouldn t be a valid port number representation  it then can be internally converted to port number -1  ant then engine will try to connect to that -1 port  which then yields the same EADDRINUSE error  which in turn might be slightly confusing and turn you in the wrong direction for error fix search  hi  me xD     So  debug your code and check what exactly you pass to functions  before starting to check for the processes  that are using your port

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I had the same problem and I found out that it was the nodemon problem  First I was using this script to start my process      dev    nodemon -r dotenv config app js     the app boots correctly  but as soon as any file changes  nodemon can t restart it  In the meantime  the app still continues to run in the background  If I do Ctrl C  it quits  but there s no more process on port 3000  so killing it by port fuser -k 3000 tcp doesn t do anything   And  I was using  env port in app js file    const port   process env PORT    3000    So  I changed the port value to 3000 only and it worked    const port   3000    I had to find another way to load  env file  but this solved the issue for me  Hope that helps

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In my case  it was because I have Eclipse open

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I was using debugger and just not stopped the processes running with Ctrl C  So when I wanted to start debugging I got this error

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process on  exit       isn t called if the process crashes or is killed  It is only called when the event loop ends  and since server close   sort of ends the event loop  it still has to wait for currently running stacks here and there  it makes no sense to put that inside the exit event     On crash  do process on  uncaughtException       and on kill do process on  SIGTERM        That being said  SIGTERM  default kill signal  lets the app clean up  while SIGKILL  immediate termination  won t let the app do anything

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Use the below command in the terminal cmd to change the port npm run dev is for node js  you may have other commands to run your app most of them will work while changing the port  easier and faster  Furthermore  you can use any port number that is free in your system instead of 3002  PORT 3002 npm run dev   Most of the times when one runs the project while exiting one abruptly or unknowingly presses control   z that gives you exit out of the port always go for control   c that won t exit from port to run the server or project   Furthermore  its time to change the port number in your code  server listen 3002

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Linux  Run ps and determine the PID of your node process   Then  run sudo kill PID  Windows  Use tasklist to display the list of running processes   tasklist  O   Then  kill the node process like so  using the PID obtained from the tasklist command    taskkill  pid PID

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Rewriting  Gerard  s comment in my answer   Try pkill nodejs or pkill node if on UNIX-like OS   This will kill the process running the node server running on any port  Worked for me

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I found this solution  try it Give permission use sudo    sudo pkill node

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First find out what is running using   sudo lsof -nP -i4TCP 3000   grep LISTEN   You will get something like   php-fpm 110 root    6u  IPv4 0x110e2ba1cc64b26d      0t0  TCP 127 0 0 1 3000  LISTEN  php-fpm 274  www    0u  IPv4 0x110e2ba1cc64b26d      0t0  TCP 127 0 0 1 3000  LISTEN  php-fpm 275  www    0u  IPv4 0x110e2ba1cc64b26d      0t0  TCP 127 0 0 1 3000  LISTEN    Then you can kill the process as followed   sudo kill 110   Then you will be able to run without getting the listen EADDRINUSE    3000 errors

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I hit this on my laptop running win8  this worked   Run cmd exe as  Administrator    C  Windows System32 gt taskkill  F  IM node exe SUCCESS  The process  node exe  with PID 11008 has been terminated

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FYI  you can kill the process in one command  sudo fuser -k 3000 tcp  This can be done for all other ports like 8000  8080 or 9000 which are commonly used for development

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server close   takes a while to close the connection  thus we should make this an asynchronous call as such   await server close      IMPORTANT   when using await  we must use the async keyword in our encapsulating function as such   async      gt      await server close

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Reasons for this issues are    Any one application may be running on this port like Skype  Node may have crashed and port may not have been freed  You may have tried to start server more than one  To solve this problem  one can maintain a boolean to check whether server have been started or not  It should be started only if boolean return false or undefined

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With due respect to all the answers in the form  I would like to add a point   I found that when I terminate a node app on error using Ctrl   Z  the very next time when I try to open it got the same error EADDRINUSE    When I use Ctrl   C to terminate a node app  the next time I opened it  it did without a hitch   Changing the port number to something other than the one in error solved the issue

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delete undefined file in your project root directory  which created on app crash

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For all who came to this post and tried all may probably using nodemon or forever to do this  For example if you run  PORT 6060 Nodemon You might get the same error that port 6060 is already in use   If this is the case just run your project without nodemon if you really need to define port during run  Alternatively you can define port in your file itself if you wanna stick to nodemon   For me I do this now PORT 6060 node app js

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Task Manager  ctrl alt del  -    Processes  tab -    select the  node exe  process and hit  End Process

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Just in case check if you have added this line multiple times by mistake  app listen 3000  function       console log  listening on 3000         The above code is for express but just check if you are trying to use the same port twice in your code

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Win10  git bash v2 15  node v8 9 1  npm v5 5 1  I had a package json script to start node   start    node index js   Whenever I used this  regardless if I killed it with ctrl c  I ran into this issue   If I just ran node index js from git bash instead of npm run start and killed with ctrl c  I never got this error   I m not sure as to why  but I figured this might help someone

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Check the PID i e  id of process running on port 3000 with below command     lsof -i tcp 3000   It would output something like following   COMMAND  PID   USER   FD   TYPE  DEVICE  SIZE OFF NODE NAME node     5805  xyz    12u  IPv6  63135    0t0     TCP    3000  LISTEN    Now kill the process using    kill -9 5805

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First  you would want to know which process is using port 3000  sudo lsof -i  3000   this will list all PID listening on this port  once you have the PID you can terminate it with the following    kill -9  PID

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On Linux   Add function to    bashrc   function killTcpListen        kill -9   lsof -sTCP LISTEN -i  1 -t      Pull changes  source    bashrc  And use it  killTcpListen 3000

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You may use hot-node to prevent your server from crashing  run-time-errors  Hot-node automatically restarts the nodejs application for you whenever there is a change in the node program source    process running node program    Install hot-node using npm using the global option      npm install -g hotnode

[node.js] Node / Express: EADDRINUSE, Address already in use - Kill server

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