Well, looks like the first thing I’ve managed to break today is WEBrick – a web server for ruby on rails. The general idea behind the error message appears to be that the address it’s trying to start is already in use:
[2011-12-02 19:01:34] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2011-12-02 19:01:34] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16) [i686-linux]
[2011-12-02 19:01:39] WARN TCPServer Error: Address already in use – bind(2)
Exiting
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `initialize’: Address already in use – bind(2) (Errno::EADDRINUSE)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `new’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `create_listeners’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:70:in `each’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:70:in `create_listeners’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:75:in `listen’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:63:in `initialize’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:24:in `initialize’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.3.4/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:10:in `new’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.3.4/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:10:in `run’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.3.4/lib/rack/server.rb:265:in `start’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.1/lib/rails/commands/server.rb:70:in `start’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:54
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:49:in `tap’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.1.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:49
from script/rails:6:in `require’
from script/rails:6
Sure enough, it turns out that one of my previous WEBrick processes had not closed properly. I was able to view the existing processes using the following:
chris@chris-VirtualBox:~/site$ pgrep ruby
1601
In order to close them simply kill the process:
chris@chris-VirtualBox:~/site$ kill 1601
Ensure that the process is gone:
chris@chris-VirtualBox:~/site$ pgrep ruby
And finally, start WEBrick again.
chris@chris-VirtualBox:~/site$ rails server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 3.1.1 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2011-12-02 19:13:21] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2011-12-02 19:13:21] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16) [i686-linux]
[2011-12-02 19:13:26] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=1814 port=3000
Good luck!
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