Can't run nile node in macOS

[kanishkatn]

Hi,

I'm on macOS Big Sur, and there is some system process running at port 5000. Cause of which, nile node fails to run.

Is there a way to specify the port in nile node ?

[fracek]

At the moment it's not possible to change the host or port, we should do that.

Note: starknet devnet already supports this, we need to pass the host and port flags to it.

[martriay]

Thanks for raising this! I'm on macOS but haven't stumbled upon this before. Would you be interested in opening a PR adding the feature @kanishkatn?

[kanishkatn]

@martriay Yes, would love to!

[milancermak]

Just FYI, there was a post on Reddit about it some time ago. Seems the port squatting can be disabled via System preferences.

[Yijia-Chen]

Second this issue. #46 seems to have a good solution already; can someone please merge?

[martriay]

@Yijia-Chen hey there, bear in mind that merging it doesn't automatically makes it available since we'd have to also release a new version of nile. Until we release it, I suggest you clone the PR (or main when merged) and install it locally to use it today, now.

[Yijia-Chen]

I installed the newest commit including #46 using python -m pip install . in the project directory, and nile node now has the flag --port which works on 5001. However, nile deploy contract --alias contract_name still has no --port option, and when I run it after nile node, it gives me the error that port 5000 is occupied. Does the local nile deploy also use port 5000? Or am I doing something wrong here?

The detailed error message is as follows: subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['starknet', 'deploy', '--contract', 'artifacts/contract.json', '--gateway_url=http://localhost:5000/']' returned non-zero exit status 1. I am on macOS Monterey Version 12.0.1.

Can someone please help?

[ftupas]

Hi @Yijia-Chen , normally when you run nile node --port 5001 you'll have a node.json file with the corresponding gateway URL. No need to add the port when executing nile deploy as it will target whatever is saved in this file. However you do need to run it in the same directory when you did nile node, could you try again and see if it works on your end?

[Yijia-Chen]

Okay now it works! I wasn't running them in the same directory. Thanks!

[martriay]

I'm closing this issue since the feature is already in place.