Error: bind EADDRINUSE

[bitboxer]

Today I got this error when trying to stream:

events.js:85
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
            ^
Error: bind EADDRINUSE
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
    at dgram.js:224:28
    at dns.js:85:18
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:503:11)
    at startup (node.js:129:16)
    at node.js:814:3

Sadly I don't know what is going on here. What addres is already in use and by what process. How can I find that out?

[xat]

Did you have two instances of castnow running on the same machine?

[bitboxer]

Nope. Can't see any. Can you say what port is used? That way incan identify the process that is using it on my machine

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Did you have two instances of castnow running on the same machine?

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[xat]

Depending on the plugin used it's between 4100 and 4105

[bitboxer]

I restarted the machine and sadly can't find anything with lsof that is using this port. I also tried to reinstall it, but without any luck 😢

[bitboxer]

The debug output:

  castnow launching... +0ms
  castnow:localfile started webserver on address 192.168.0.104 using port 4100 +5ms
  castnow player status: loading plugins +2ms
  castnow player status: scanning +1ms
events.js:85
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
            ^
Error: bind EADDRINUSE
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
    at dgram.js:224:28
    at dns.js:85:18
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:503:11)
    at startup (node.js:129:16)
    at node.js:814:3

[xat]

Looks like it's getting stuck in the scanning process. Can you try either the --ssdp option or using --address <chromecast ip> ?

[bitboxer]

I tried --address <ip> with the same result. If I am using --ssdp it does not find my device.

[xat]

Ok, well that's strange.
You could clone the repo, run npm install in the directory and change the port of the localfile-plugin here to something different => https://github.com/xat/castnow/blob/master/plugins/localfile.js#L8
Afterwards run ./index.js <path to your media file> and see if it would work then. If that works for you I can add an option-parameter to change the port.

[bitboxer]

Strangely it started working again when I tried to debug it today. Sorry for all the problems. Will close this now and hope it will not appear again.

[xat]

I'm getting this error too within node v0.12.x

Seems to be related with this here: mdns-js/node-mdns-js#31